Adult Therapy

Supporting adults to thrive and build beautiful relationships
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talk therapy

Individual counseling can significantly help with perspective and dealing with everyday stress.

  • Feel like you yourself again
  • Talk about your strong emotions & not worry about being judged or labeled
  • Understand the connection between your thoughts, feelings and actions
  • Conquer feelings of shame and feel confident again
  • Grieve the absence or loss of something significant in your life
  • Dive deeper to better understand yourself and your behaviors
  • Gain insight on how your past may be affecting your present and future
  • Feel compassion and love for yourself again
  • Believe that you are worthy and capable of so much
  • Learn ways to be mindful and practice healthy coping
  • Anxiety
  • Grief
  • Shame
  • Codependency
  • Depression
  • Relationships
  • Trauma/Childhood Trauma
  • Women’s issues (Postpartum, perinatal, etc.)

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”

Talk therapy helps you feel heard, understood and validated. 

We cultivate a therapeutic alliance and space for you to express yourself without judgement or fear of criticism. 

A strong body of research suggests that bottling up feelings, thoughts and emotions is stressful. When you express your feelings with a skilled professional you can learn new perspectives, gain insights about yourself, begin to understand how and why you feel they way you do so you can learn to manage your emotions better. 

Talk therapy can positively impact your mental health and immune system. 

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EMDR

The emotional wounds in our life, like the wounds on our body, don’t just disappear if we try to simply cover it up with a band-aid (distraction, substance abuse, workaholic, etc). Emotional wounds need care, nurture and ongoing follow-up to avoid it from negatively impacting our life.

  • Do you often feel haunted by a disturbing memory or past experience?
  • Does it feel like you often reliving those memories?
  • Is it hard to stop thinking about it?
  • Does thinking about it almost paralyze you (running out of breath, sweating, freeze response, numbing, dissociating, etc.)
  • Do you experience nightmares related to it?
  • Do you have awareness of a disturbing life experience that you can’t actually remember the details of?

With EMDR therapy you can feel more in control of your emotions, empowered by the very experiences that once debased you, transformation through old wounds and improved signs of emotional health and resolution.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal and find relief from the symptoms and emotional distress that are caused by a disturbing life experiences.

  • Childhood trauma
  • Single incident trauma
  • Chronic Trauma
  • PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Grief/Emotional Pain

Heena Khan, LPC-S, RPT-S is experienced in utilizing EMDR and fully trained by the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA).

Wondering if EMDR is a good fit for you? Book a consultation or contact us to explore how EMDR can help you gain more control of the healing process.

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Family & Couples Counseling

Marriage/Family Counseling can help you, your partner and/or family resolve conflicts that keep you stuck. We can help take your life at home from dysfunctional to functional and harmonious, so you can actually enjoy being around each other.

  • Strengthen the body; empower the mind; transform the soul.
  • Create a more peaceful home environment
  • Resolve conflict between each other effectively
  • Learn ways to communicate so everyone feels heard, understood and respected
  • Find love for each other again
  • Break old patterns that lead to conflict, resentment & anger
  • Gain insight on how your past may be affecting your present/future family

Premarital counseling is one of the best investments you make for your future together. It can help you and your partner prepare for courtship and/or marriage by identifying key strengths in the relationship and learning effective and compassionate resolution to conflicts that can (and do) occur during courtship and/or marriage. 

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Postpartum support

800,000 women annually are affected by perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
They are the number one complication of childbirth. Perinatal Mood Disorders include temporary and treatable conditions that occur during and/or after pregnancy.

Post Partum Depression
Post-Partum Anxiety and OCD
Post-partum Psychosis
Post-partum Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Left undetected and untreated, these conditions can lead to negative health outcomes for the mother, and can negatively affect the mother-child bond and the child’s long-term physical, emotional, and developmental health. Additionally, the financial cost of untreated maternal mental health conditions can be significant (for example, more use of emergency care services, higher rates of absenteeism at work).

Planning for your emotional wellness is just as important as planning for your pregnancy and postpartum? Subscribe to receive a copy of our Postpartum Plan for Emotional Wellness that we created for Moms.

yoga & Therapy

What the mind forgets, the body remembers

With therapeutic yoga you can Strengthen the body; empower the mind; transform the soul.

(U)Yoga™ is an adjunct service we offer at Uplift Counseling Services in your journey of emotional wellness and self-reflection. With our practice, we hope you re-connect with your body and find yourself again. We incorporate yoga into treatment that integrates both mind and body, leading to holistic healing.

Yoga helps alleviate anxiety and depression

Yoga helps reduce stress

Yoga helps improve sleep patterns

Yoga helps enhance overall well-being

  • Meditative/Yin Yoga for Moms
  • Meditative/Yin Yoga for Therapists
  • Trauma-Informed Yoga

What is Trauma Informed Yoga?

When we think of the word trauma, we often associate it with an experience like war, violence or a catastrophe. We don’t see ourselves as a survivor of trauma, because we may not know how trauma is actually defined.

Trauma is any deeply distressing or disturbing experience that overwhelms our capacity to cope

This could be the loss of a family member, a divorce, a breakup, illness, a house fire, a bad accident, any kind of abuse, addiction in the family etc. It can also include secondary or vicarious trauma, which is the experience from indirect exposure to trauma, like watching a neighbor’s house on fire-it’s not your home but the indirect exposure can also cause you to have a traumatic experience.

When you experience trauma, your body automatically responds with either fight (stay there and fight it off), flight (run for your life), or freeze (brain shutdown). All 3 of these are normal ways our brain reacts to protect it from harm and move it to safety.

Our bodies will often absorb this trauma and when we don’t process the trauma, it stays in our body and we start to experience symptoms of anxiety and trouble regulating emotions even long after the traumatic event has passed.

  • We assume that anyone attending the class has experienced some form of trauma
  • We believe you are the expert on your body and experience
  • We encourage you to take control of each pose, knowing that everybody is different and there is no “ideal” body shape.
  • We cultivate a judgement-free, safe, comforting and empowering space for all
  • We are aware that some poses/props can make you feel vulnerable and empower you to modify them accordingly.
  • We always “invite” you to transitions and poses, again empowering you to make the choice.
  • We refrain from any hands-on assists, and always ask for permission if you need assistance.
  • Our goal is to help you attain calmness through your breath, postures and movements.

Yoga allows you to feel more connected and aware of your inner true experience.

All Yoga services are provided by Heena Khan, LPC-S, RPT-S, CYT 200

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Frequently asked questions

Therapy can provide support, problem-solving skills, enhanced coping strategies from a licensed professional for concerns such as anxiety, depression, unresolved childhood trauma/grief, stress management, relationship troubles, body image, self-esteem, etc.

A licensed professional counselor (LPC) is professional who has acquired years of graduate study and experience in the the field of counseling. Trained and licensed professionals not only listen empathically, but also assist people in becoming more aware and gain insight into their triggers, fears, experiences, expectations and goals by reflecting on their lives in a non-threatening, non-judgemental and genuine manner. Most importantly, a licensed professional is answerable to a licensing board, which expects that all licensed professionals practice with the highest level of professionalism, integrity and ethics.

This is a very difficult question to answer since everyone’s experience, ability to cope, resources, healing is all very unique and personal. During our work together, we will periodically discuss goals and length of counseling.

Consistency is an important part of therapy and growth. If counseling services are difficult for you to afford at this point, in order to provide consistent therapy for yourself, we would be happy to provide you with some referrals in the community that provide therapy services for community members on a sliding scale based on your hardship. Please send us an email at info@uplift-counseling.com.

If you would like to bring a family member, it is important for you to discuss this with your counselor ahead of time so both client and counselor can discuss and decide whether this would be therapeutic.

Still Have Questions?

Please book a complimentary 15-minute session to learn more about how our services can help you and your child.