The Refuge Center provides counseling services for:
Addiction, Domestic Violence, Sexual Abuse, Parenting, Pre-Marital Counseling, Marital Crisis, Relationship Issues, Attachment, Behavioral issues, Grief and Loss, Family Therapy, Child Abuse, Depression, Anxiety, and PTSD.
For more detail of several of our programs, please see below:
1) Relationship Counseling
Program Description: The Refuge Center offers relationship counseling to those whose relationships have been affected by marital discord, interpersonal anxieties, affairs, anger, depression, grief and loss, and addiction. Pre-marital counseling is also available. Various therapeutic techniques are utilized including psycho-educational work, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused therapy and specific assessments. Goals include helping each client to define and implement personal boundaries, to process loss, to increase skills of empathetic communication, to identify triggers and maintain recovery, and to become more assertive.
2) Counseling for Children and Adolescents
Program Description: The Refuge Center offers counseling for children and adolescents. Presenting issues for the youth we serve includes: child abuse, behavioral issues (cutting, addiction, aggression etc), adoption, trauma, attachment, grief and loss, peer relationships and family violence. Our children's counselors use a variety of specialized techniques in therapy including Theraplay, Expressive arts, EMDR, and Sand Tray. Goals for the sessions include identifying ways to increase physical and emotional safety, increasing positive coping skills, disclosure of trauma, active and non-violent engagement in play, self-discovery, ownership of choices, and defining boundaries.
3) Trauma Therapy Including Domestic and Sexual Violence Counseling
Program Description: We offer counseling to trauma survivors, including domestic and sexual violence survivors who are referred from local shelters, lawyers, churches etc. With each survivor, therapy is focused on empowerment, self-efficacy, safety planning, goal setting, self-discovery, processing loss, and creating boundaries. Through this program the survivor is able to decrease symptoms of PTSD, is educated about power and control, the cycle of violence and about what constitutes health in relationships.
4) Family Counseling
Program Description: The Refuge Center offers family counseling in order to assist in helping families function more effectively as a whole, by identifying both individual and systemic opportunities to improve the health of the entire family. The goal of family work is to strengthen family bonds, increase individual members capacity for empathetic communication, disclosure of family secrets, and to create appropriate family structure and hierarchy with definitive boundaries and confirmation of safety. Family sessions also provide a platform for each family member to feel heard and valued.
