You are Worth taking care of!
Our Commitment
Serenity Springs Counseling and Wellness is committed to honoring the inherent dignity, worth, and rights of all humans. We believe affirming, accessible mental health care is essential to healing and well‑being.
We provide inclusive, trauma‑informed therapy that respects identity, belief, and lived experience, including support for faith transitions and religious trauma. Our work acknowledges the impact of trauma and systemic harm while empowering clients to reclaim their voice, autonomy, and path toward healing.
Our Services
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At Serenity Springs Counseling and Wellness, we provide teen therapy and adolescent counseling for clients ages 16 and older, focused on helping teens build self‑confidence, emotional resilience, and a strong sense of self‑worth. Therapy supports teens in identifying and challenging negative core beliefs while developing healthier ways to understand themselves and their experiences.
Our therapists work closely with teens (16+) to navigate the everyday challenges of adolescence, including school stress and academic pressure, anxiety and depression, self‑harm ideation, peer and family relationship concerns, substance use, and other emotional or behavioral difficulties. Care is individualized, developmentally appropriate, and grounded in trauma‑informed practices.
Through outpatient therapy for teens ages 16 and up, we help adolescents strengthen emotional regulation skills, develop autonomy, and build a clearer sense of identity. Our clinicians bring extensive experience from diverse treatment settings, including state hospitals, inpatient units, and residential treatment centers, allowing us to provide compassionate, well‑rounded support.
We also strongly encourage family therapy for teens (ages 16+) as part of the healing process. Family therapy can be a powerful tool in helping teens understand family dynamics, improve communication, and foster healthier, more connected relationships at home.
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Individual therapy provides a safe, supportive space to explore your thoughts, emotions, and lived experiences while reconnecting with your authentic self. At Serenity Springs Counseling and Wellness, our therapists offer compassionate, nonjudgmental care and tailor each session to meet your unique needs, goals, and values.
Whether you’re seeking support for anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, faith transitions, stress, or self‑esteem, therapy can help you develop effective coping strategies, practice grounding and regulation skills, process past experiences, and talk openly about what’s on your mind. Your therapist will collaborate with you to create a personalized and meaningful therapeutic experience.
Using evidence‑based, trauma‑informed approaches and a deep understanding of human behavior, our therapists help you identify and deconstruct harmful belief systems shaped by past experiences, relationships, or societal pressures. Together, we work to build healthier, more adaptive beliefs that foster emotional resilience, self‑compassion, and lasting change.
The goal of individual counseling is to support you in navigating your inner world with greater clarity, confidence, and a sense of inner serenity—so you can move forward feeling empowered, grounded, and more connected to yourself.
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At Serenity Springs, our therapists are here to support families in working together to navigate life’s challenges and stressors. We focus on fostering open and honest communication between all family members, helping to reduce power struggles and build stronger, more respectful relationships.
Our goal is to bridge the gap between parents and children by encouraging mutual understanding. This includes helping parents support their children’s individuality and decision-making, while also guiding children to better understand the efforts and challenges their parents face in raising them.
Family therapy provides a space where each voice is heard, and where families can grow together in empathy, connection, and support.
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At Serenity Springs Counseling and Wellness, our therapists create a safe, supportive space where couples can engage in open, honest conversations about their relationship. We work to ensure that each partner feels heard, respected, and understood, even during difficult or emotionally charged discussions.
Through guided dialogue, compassionate support, and evidence‑based couples therapy approaches, we help partners build deeper understanding and appreciation for one another. This includes exploring each person’s unique identity, values, and lived experiences, as well as the individual and relational challenges that impact connection. Our work fosters empathy, emotional safety, and a stronger relational bond.
Couples therapy is a collaborative process designed to improve communication, navigate conflict, rebuild trust, and support healthier patterns of connection. Whether you’re seeking relationship counseling to strengthen your partnership, repair after a rupture, or better understand one another, our goal is to support lasting, meaningful, and resilient relationships.
Modalities
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EMDR, is a powerful approach to psychotherapy that helps clients process upsetting memories, traumas, experiences, and the attached core belief. During an EMDR session, clients are guided to recall distressing memories while focusing on bilateral stimulation, such as side-to-side eye movements or taps. This process helps the brain reprocess traumatic memories.
Imagine your brain is like a filing cabinet where all your memories are stored. Sometimes, a traumatic memory gets locked in the wrong drawer and keeps popping up when it's not needed, causing distress and discomfort. EMDR helps to reprocess these memories, like taking the misfiled memory out of the wrong drawer, processing it, and putting it back in the right place. By reprocessing these memories, clients can experience decreased emotional distress, improved cognition, and a greater sense of control over their thoughts and feelings. EMDR helps the brain reprocess these memories in a way that reduces their negative impact, allowing individuals to heal from past traumas.
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I like to explain IFS by using the movie "Inside Out/Inside Out 2." In the movie, the main character's mind is depicted as a control center where different emotions take on roles to protect and guide the individual. This concept is similar to Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, where individuals are encouraged to explore and understand their inner parts or subpersonalities. By viewing the mind as a system of various parts, clients can develop a deeper awareness of their thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and beliefs. Through IFS therapy, clients can learn to communicate with and harmonize these different parts, leading to improved self-understanding, emotional regulation, process traumas, and help create an overall well-being. Just as the characters in "Inside Out" must work together to navigate life's challenges, clients engaging in IFS therapy can benefit from the integration and balance of their internal system.
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a type of cognitive-behavioral therapy that is beneficial for clients in therapy due to its focus on building skills in four key areas: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. By learning and practicing these skills, clients can improve their ability to manage difficult emotions, navigate challenging situations, communicate effectively, and cultivate a greater sense of overall well-being. DBT has been shown to be particularly effective for individuals experiencing issues such as chronic suicidal thoughts, self-harm behaviors, and borderline personality disorder. Overall, DBT therapy offers clients practical tools and strategies to cope with intense emotions and create meaningful change in their lives.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a widely-used therapeutic approach that focuses on the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. By identifying and challenging negative thought patterns, clients can learn to reframe their thinking in a more positive and constructive way. CBT helps clients develop coping strategies, improve emotional regulation, and modify dysfunctional thoughts and behaviors. This evidence-based therapy is effective in treating a variety of mental health issues, including anxiety, depression, PTSD, and phobias. Clients benefit from gaining valuable skills that they can apply both during and after therapy to manage their symptoms and improve their overall well-being.
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Creative arts and experiential therapy offer clients a unique and effective way to explore and process their emotions, experiences, and traumas. Through creative expression such as art, music, dance, or drama, clients can access parts of themselves that may be difficult to articulate verbally. Engaging in experiential activities can help clients tap into their subconscious thoughts and feelings, allowing for deeper self-discovery and healing. This approach can be particularly beneficial for individuals who struggle to express themselves through traditional talk therapy or who have experienced trauma that is challenging to verbalize. By incorporating creative arts and experiential therapy techniques into treatment, clients can enhance their therapeutic journey and make significant strides towards healing and growth.
