What To Expect
Psychotherapy and Counseling
Services
The clinicians at Heritage have had great success with a
step by step approach to therapy.  First, the client will
meet with the clinician to discuss a variety of issues so
that the clinician can determine the most significant
problems on which to focus treatment.  There is often
primary, secondary, and even tertiary problems to be
addressed.  As the primary concerns become clear to the
clinician, the opinions of the client are included in order
to prioritize the issues for which help is being sought.  
Next, the problem is specifically defined in a manner that
is unique to the client and the way the problem reveals
itself in his or her life.

The clinician will then work with the client in order to
set goals that lead to resolutions of the target problem.  
These goals are usually fairly long term and indicate the
desired positive outcome to the treatment process.  In
order to effectively reach these long term goals, a variety
of short term objectives are determined.  Each objective
should be though of as a step toward achievement of the
long term treatment goal.

The next step in the therapy process is for the clinician
to make professional decisions about interventions that
are designed to help the client reach his or her
individual objectives.  These interventions are based on
the needs of the particular client and all of the clinicians
therapeutic options.  Our clinicians have a variety of
approaches to choose from including cognitive, dynamic,
behavioral, pharmacology, family-of -origin, and
solution-focused brief therapy.  All are combined with the
in depth training and vast experience of each of our
clinicians.  The result of this process is a healthy,
focused, enlightened client.

This approach to therapy is available in all of the
traditional counseling formats:

Individual
Marital
Couples
Family
Group Seminars (For men, women, and children)