Therapy. Guidance. Support. Assessment. Consultation.

Adult Individual Counseling

• First Appointment (90 minutes)

  • First 30 minutes: Dialogue covering counseling services, confidentiality, ethics, and professional style/background. This offers an opportunity to interview the therapist to ensure you feel safe, comfortable, and ready to engage.

  • Remaining 50–55 minutes: Standard therapy session.

• Subsequent Sessions: Typically 50–55 minutes long.

• Approach: Uses a variety of tools, techniques, and assessments throughout therapy to support healing, change, and overall well-being.

Child Individual Counseling

• First Appointment (90 minutes)

  • First 30–60 minutes: Dialogue with parent(s) and child regarding services, confidentiality, ethics, and professional background. The therapist gathers concerns to begin formulating a treatment plan to share and align with your family’s goals. This serves as the family's opportunity to interview the therapist.

• Therapeutic Approach

  • Tailored to the child's age, incorporating a dedicated play for play therapy to meet the child at their level.

  • Focuses on building self-esteem, self-regulation, focus, and healing from loss or trauma.

  • Parent Involvement: Parents are closely involved throughout the process to support both the child and the family unit.

  • Trauma Expertise: Equipped with specialized expertise in significant child trauma to guide both the child and parents through healing.

Couples Counseling

• Session Length: All appointments are 90 minutes long.

• First Appointment: Includes an initial intake dialogue regarding services, confidentiality, ethics, and style so the couple can interview the therapist, followed immediately by the first session.

• Why 90 Minutes?

  • Couples often arrive feeling hurt, confused, and overwhelmed.

  • Standard 55-minute sessions can cut off deep conversations right when emotional barriers are broken.

  • Extended 90-minute sessions provide a full 45 minutes after reaching the core issues, allowing time to push through cycles of conflict and bring about meaningful healing and change.

• Approach: Utilizes tailored tools, techniques, and assessments to support progress.

Family Counseling

• Session Length: All appointments are 90 minutes long.

• First Appointment: Includes an initial orientation to services, ethics, and approach, giving the family a chance to evaluate the fit before proceeding into the initial session.

• Why 90 Minutes?

  • Allows families adequate time to explore complex feelings without feeling rushed when deep, sensitive issues arise.

  • Ensures the therapist has time during every session to help the family work through the root of their challenges together rather than leaving topics unresolved.

• Approach: Utilizes diverse therapeutic tools, techniques, and assessments to aid in individual and family growth.

Base fee for services is $100/hour in the form of cash/checks. Please give 24-Hour notice in the event you must cancel your appointment. Crystal Coast Counseling believes in your right to confidential services and therefore will not submit to insurance companies which: (1) Demand a diagnosis in order to allow treatment (not everyone should receive a diagnosis), (2) Dictate how many sessions you need (here, you get to decide), (3) Do not protect that diagnosis and resulting information very well and (4) Maintain your diagnosis and treatment on your insurance records for years. However, We can help you guide you to submit to your insurance company. We are third party reimbursable, meaning, that you pay for your sessions and your insurance company may reimburse you their rate.