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Individual Therapy

Are you feeling stressed, depressed, anxious?
Are you dealing with loss, grief, loneliness?
Are you suffering with low self-esteem or a harsh inner critic?
Do you have communication, boundary-setting, or anger problems?
Do you want intimacy and trust?
Want a safe space to explore the important life issues you’re facing?

 

Our therapists are highly trained to help you resolve all life, career, family, and relationship difficulties or transitions

 

Our Focus Is:

  1. To resolve the issues that bring you to counseling
  2. To help you establish or reestablish your life as a thriving, nurturing process

How We Do This:

  1. The first step is to help you identify the goals you seek to accomplish
  2. Using cutting-edge, powerful yet gentle methods, our counseling acts to enliven and release the forces of positive growth already present within you
  3. The root causes of your current distress are uncovered and released
  4. You fulfill your goals and grow beyond negative patterns from the past
  5. You are empowered to move forward with freedom in your life
Some Issues We Address:

Within Yourself 

  • overcoming depression, anxiety, stress
  • strengthening self-esteem
  • quieting the inner critic
  • learning to feel the full range of your emotions
  • developing self-acceptance and self-compassion
  • dealing with grief, loss, loneliness
  • resolving career conflicts
  • working through adoption-related issues
  • growing beyond inner child issues stemming from distressed, dysfunctional, addictive, or abusive families 
  • resolving childhood wounds related to abuse, alcoholism, incest
  • healing trauma – recent, childhood, sexual, physical, emotional
  • supporting sexual identity and gender explorations —  LGBTQQI affirming
  • incorporating therapy into your 12-step program
  • handling addictions and compulsive behaviors
  • addressing Internet, video game, and porn addiction
  • restoring a sense of safety, healing PTSD due to being a victim of crime
  • freeing creativity, spontaneity and joy

With Others 

  • creating intimacy and trust
  • developing healthy boundaries
  • overcoming codependency
  • loving without addiction
  • resolving sexual difficulties
  • learning to express and receive anger
  • developing your ability to express healthy emotions
  • improving communication with family members and others
  • overcoming money and power struggles
  • clarifying commitments
  • navigating multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, and other diversity issues

Pregnancy and Parenting Issues 

  • deciding if parenthood is right for you
  • dealing with infertility issues
  • exploring adoption as a path to parenthood
  • post-abortion syndrome
  • navigating the challenges of new parenthood
  • supporting new moms of all ages
  • helping fathers be the best dad possible

Life Transitions 

  • break-ups, separation, or divorce
  • relocating locally, nationally, or internationally
  • working through midlife crisis
  • facing issues related to illness, death, and dying
  • exploring purpose, meaning, and spiritual growth

 

You will leave our Center feeling empowered to meet and transform the challenges that life offers you

Phone: (510) 527-2100
Email: info@creativegrowth.com

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“Come my friends, ’tis not too late to seek a better world”
– Tennyson

 

Our Next 20-Week Group Intensive Program

Healing Your Past – Transforming Your Future
Saturdays, 11am-2pm
Beginning April 5, 2025
Spaces Currently Available

Click here for more details.

Contact Us Today!

(510) 527-2100

info@creativegrowth.com

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