Services Available at Great South Bay Therapy

One on one therapy with you and your counselor is what comes to mind when most people think of therapy. During individual therapy sessions, we discuss how you can manage emotions, navigate difficult situations, heal from traumatic events, or get through challenging life changes. We may approach this process using a number of different methods, including:

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Positive Psychology
• Integrative Mental Health Therapy
• Strengths Based Therapy
• Mindfulness & Stress Reduction

Creating and sustaining meaningful and satisfying partnerships can be a real challenge. Whether you’re just starting out in a marriage and want to build a solid foundation, you want to break out of a cycle of bickering, you’re working to sustain your healthy relationship, or you’re healing from betrayal, therapy can help. We may approach couples therapy using a number of different methods, including:

• Gottman Level 2 Couples Therapy
• Family Systems Theory

If romantic relationships are challenging, adding children, parents, siblings, and extended family into the mix can be even more difficult. When family units are strong, they offer the nurturing and support we need to become happy, fulfilled adults. When the family unit struggles, every member of that family is impacted – even if you don’t see it right away. Working with a therapist can help you create a healthy, thriving family. We may approach the family therapy process using a number of different methods, including:

• Active Parenting™ Program Facilitator
• Gottman Level 2 Couples Therapy
• Family Systems Theory
• Co-parenting through divorce

Group therapy sessions are positive experiences and an important part of the healing process for many. They provide support, accountability, comradery, and opportunities for growth. Joining a counseling group can also be a more accessible option if individual therapy is outside of your budget. Some of our current and past group therapy options include:

• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction for Teens™ (MBRS-T)
• Social skills support and groups for students
• Parenting Support Groups

Online counseling, also called telehealth, teletherapy, and virtual counseling, is a great option for busy schedules, those who live a little too far from our offices to make the commute, and to ensure continuity of care when you’re not able to be present in the office. We can typically accommodate any type of therapy for individuals, couples, families, and even groups using our teletherapy platform. To engage with young clients, we will utilize interactive online therapy components like games and stories to help them understand and cope with anxiety, depression, ADHD, and other concerns they may be experiencing. Some of the methods we’ll use during online counseling include:

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Positive Psychology
• Integrative Mental Health Therapy
• Strengths Based Therapy
• Mindfulness & Stress Reduction
• Interactive Therapy Components for Kids & Teens

Feeling anxious, worried, stressed, or on edge doesn’t need to be your normal, baseline experience. If you deal with disordered levels of anxiety that impact your daily life, let’s get together to start changing the way you interact with the world and take back control of your life from anxiety. Some ways we help people struggling with anxiety include:

• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction for Teens™ (MBRS-T)
• Cognitive Behavior Therapy
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills

Sadness and low mood are completely natural in many situations, but when depression is long lasting, out of proportion with your current situation, or impedes your ability to live a healthy life, it’s time to talk to a therapist. Some of the intervention styles we use when partnering with people who struggle with depression include:

• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction for Teens™ (MBRS-T)
• Cognitive Behavior Therapy
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills

Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts are serious and dangerous concerns. Our clinicians have experience helping during these moments of crisis. While we offer counseling for people in many different situations, supporting individuals, couples, families, and groups through crisis is an important aspect of our practice. You are a worthy and valuable individual, and you deserve to be here learning and growing with us for a long time. In order to safely and effectively work with individuals who are experiencing suicidal thinking or planning, we use a range of crisis intervention methods, including:

• SafeTALK (Suicide Intervention)
• ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills)
• Suicide Safety for Teachers – Certified Trainer
• Suicidal Ideation & Crisis Screening Tools
• PREPaRE School Crisis Prevention Intervention Training
• Certified Rape Crisis Counselors
• Emergency Mental Health
• Mental Health First Aid

Our clinicians have extensive experience working with teens and adults struggling with alcohol and other drug dependence. Substance use disorders often start when teens or adults begin to “self-medicate” as a way to cope with emotional pain. We have screening tools to help assess early substance use among teens and young adults, interventions to prevent future addictions, and we also support individuals who have completed treatment and want to sustain recovery. Specific services include:

• Teen Intervene (early intervention for teen substance use)

• SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment)
• Internet and gaming addiction assessment and treatment

The LGBTQ+ community has a difficult history with therapy, and many LGBTQ+ people are still hesitant to work with a therapist. The Great South Bay Therapy team are LGBTQ+ affirming clinicians. We support LGBTQ+ individuals, advocate for the community, and provide supportive and informed care. Some ways that we work with those in the LGBTQ+ community include:

• Affirming therapists offering informed care for LGBTQ+ teens & adults
• Coordination and advocacy with schools on best practices for transgender students
• Parent support around acceptance and understanding their LGBTQ+ children

Grief and loss are unavoidable parts of the human experience. We meet and are impacted by wonderful people, and some of them will leave us. Navigating the pain of losing a special connection you had means grieving the loss of that part of yourself that only exists in relationship to this other person. With therapy, you can learn to live with grief, heal from pain, and experience more fulfilling days again. Some ways we support clients through loss and grief include:

• Bereavement support for children and families
• Support for women and their families experiencing perinatal loss
• Support for children and families living with chronic illness

School is meant to be where young people learn about math, science, literature, geography, and other subjects that will benefit them later in life. It’s also where our kids learn how to navigate the larger world and develop into independent adults. Unfortunately, that means school is also filled with challenging people and situations – just like our adult lives! We can help kids handle school-related issues in many different ways, including:

• Counseling for Bullying, Cyberbullying, & Relational Aggression
• Support and skills training for students with ADHD and other learning needs
• Social skills support and groups for students
• School Avoidance and chronic absence interventions
• Counseling and parent support for At-Risk children and teens