Sarah
Ehlers, LCSW
Therapeutic Services
I offer several options for exploring your needs and healing emotional hurts.
Individual Therapy
Adults and Teens
Individual therapy provides an opportunity for you to increase your ability to observe yourself and the way you interact with the world around you. You will work to increase awareness of and connection to your thoughts and feelings, thus increasing your power to make desired changes in your life. Through the creation of a safe and trusted therapeutic relationship, you will be able to more deeply explore past experiences and current stressors. Your individualized healing journey will leave you with an increased connection to your true self and a better understanding of how to manage difficult and distressing situations. I also offer deeper processing and healing through Hypnotherapy.
Children
Individual therapy provides your child with a safe, supportive relationship in which they will experience respect, value, and unconditional love. The therapeutic bond is the most important component to your child's healing process. In addition, you and your child will be given information to help with managing difficult feelings and support in talking about tough experiences. Your child will have many tools available to them that foster healing, including art supplies, sandtray, toys, puppets, music, and books. Therapy is hard work, but it can also be fun!
Family Therapy (in conjunction with Individual Therapy)
Family therapy is facilitated with two main goals: to increase healthy communication and increase loving, peaceable interaction between members of a family. You will work to identify family patterns that contribute to conflict and the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors behind those patterns. Although the approach addresses the family as a whole and focuses on relationship and communication patterns, individual family members are also asked to reflect on their individual contributions to the overall functioning of the family. Each family member is encouraged to maintain his or her own sense of self, while remaining emotionally connected to the family.