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Specialties

  • Psychoeducation
  • Executive functioning skills
  • Anxiety related disorders
  • Expressive arts
  • Women’s mental health
  • Men’s mental health
  • Parental Mental Health
  • Adolescent Development
  • Athlete Mental Health
  • Consultation
  • Family Divorce Adjustment
  • Life Adjustments
  • Trauma/Grief
  • Low Acuity Outpatient Substance Abuse

Group Therapy

With everyone’s safety in mind, AIM Counseling Group has implemented even more safety measures for in-person groups such as increased cleaning and sanitation, air purifiers, client screenings, and temperature checks. Please contact us for an assessment to join our groups! All groups are tailored to be age-appropriate. Groups are geared towards empowerment and emotional and physical safety. Caregivers will receive a handout after each child or adolescent group to explain what was covered and how to support your child to utilize these empowerment skills.

Psychoeducation Groups

Buildresilience, self-awareness, and self-regulatory skills to face the stressors of life. The middle school years include new developments of friendships, interests, and desires separate from parents. These new situations bring their own unique challenges and opportunities. Learn to adapt and grow through moments of adversity.

Resilience – the ability to bounce back when life gets tough

  1. Does preteen child/teen find it a challenge to identify the good in situations and people?
  2. Does your child/teen get consumed by a problem and have trouble seeking solutions
  3. Does your child/teen have difficulty with regulating their mood after a disappointment ?
  4. Does your child/teen have a tendency to give up quickly and not be able to tolerate frustration?
  5. Does your child/teen struggle with having compassion for themselves when they make a mistake or not meet their own expectations?
  6. Does your child/teen get stuck on things that don’t go their way?
  7. Does your child/teen avoid or struggle with conflict?
  8. Does your child/teen become fixed on the negative?

Explore what it means to be resilient and learn how to build resiliency through the 7 C’s: Confidence, Connection, Character, Competence(strengthens), Contribution, Control, andCoping. With a foundation of resilience, our high school young woman will be better apt to cope with change, loss, and the various setbacks that we all experience throughout life.

Resilience – the ability to bounce back when life gets tough

  1. Does preteen child/teen find it a challenge to identify the good in situations and people?
  2. Does your child/teen get consumed by a problem and have trouble seeking solutions
  3. Does your child/teen have difficulty with regulating their mood after a disappointment ?
  4. Does your child/teen have a tendency to give up quickly and not be able to tolerate frustration?
  5. Does your child/teen struggle with having compassion for themselves when they make a mistake or not meet their own expectations?
  6. Does your child/teen get stuck on things that don’t go their way?
  7. Does your child/teen avoid or struggle with conflict?
  8. Does your child/teen become fixed on the negative?

Aim’s Trauma Wellness Group will be held once monthly with the focus on the “opposites” of trauma – Safety, Connection and Movement. Scheduling starting January 2023.

Trauma Treatment Groups

Led by Amie Thomas, LMHC, CTS.

AIM’ s Structured Trauma Therapy Group has been developed utilizing the evidenced based framework of Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) . In addition, the group will participate in interventions that utilize Structed Sensory interventions, Internal Family System interventions, breathwork, creative expression, movement and music.

The group is designed to assist adults in understanding trauma on the biological, physiological, cognitive and behavioral level. This understanding to geared to promote one’s ability to increase their self-awareness and capacity to process and store traumatic memories successfully which will increase overall resilience. In addition, the group promotes the “opposites of trauma” to add a solution focused approach to the healing process.

Group Specifics:

Trauma education – how it is processed within the brain and body and the trauma response

Increased awareness and mastery of the shift from emotional dysregulation to regulation within the central nervous system

Increased awareness of trauma response thought patterns, purpose and means in which to realistically reframe.

Learn how to reorganize explicit trauma reminders that induce the automatic trauma response.

Process a traumatic event to experience the empowering shift from being stuck to choice and movement.

Workshops

Creative Expression Workshops
Creative Expression enriches the lives of individuals and families through active art-making and the creative process within a psychotherapeutic relationship. Creative Expression is used to improve cognitive and sensory-motor functions, foster self-esteem and self-awareness, cultivate emotional resilience, promote insight, enhance social skills, reduce and resolve conflicts and distress. Our monthly art workshops focus on a variety of topics.