Services and Approach | Indigo Waters Counseling

Specialties

Child or Adolescent
Behavioral Issues
Emotional Disturbance

Issues

ADHD
Academic Underachievement
Anxiety
Coping Skills
Depression
Developmental Disorders
Family Conflict
Parenting
Parenting GATE children
Relationship Issues
Self Esteem

Mental Health

Mood Disorders
Thinking Disorders

Sexuality

Gay, Transgender, Transexual Identity issues

Client Focus

Ethnicity: Hispanic and Latino
Alternative Languages Spoken: Spanish

Ages Welcomed

Toddlers / Preschoolers (0 to 6)
Children (6 to 10)
Preteens / Tweens (11 to 13)
Adolescents / Teenagers (14 to 19)
Adults

We get it, no one is the same.

When you think about it, it makes sense.

Our differences matter in how we choose to live, or how we deal with what life throws at us. Everyone had different parents and different teachers. We grew up in different places with different local cultures. We have different beliefs, different circles of friends. Some of us have had suffered accidents, live in abusive relationships, or struggle daily to overcome disease. A loved one may have died, or we question our own desire to live on. Some of our children can’t find the confidence to lead, while some children, in their desire to belong, follow those who would take advantage.

Given that the issues we face come from our own unique life and perspective, how can all of us fit into one treatment model for counseling? They can’t. At Indigo Waters we get it. We’re here to create the best treatment path for your specific needs, and we’ve found that blending both Western and Eastern philosophies and practices can provide needed help and support for the widest possible range of issues in the lives of those we help.

We believe we only truly help our patients when we embrace the concept that everything we do must flow from the idea that mental wellness and stability are fundamental social issues and rights, and that everyone should be able to access it – no matter what their background or issue, their language or culture, their immigration status, or their class.

Working together, our goal is to empower you with the strength that has always been inside you. To give you the tools you need to proactively face issues before those difficulties become unmanageable. To help you realize that however difficult the problem, your life can work.

Approaches to helping that are as different as we all are.

Art Therapy

It may look like a craft class, and actually be a lot of fun, but art therapy is a serious technique that uses the creative process to help improve the mental health of clients. Based on the belief that the creative process is healing and life-enhancing, we use art therapy to treat a wide range of emotional issues, including anxiety, depression, family and relationship problems, abuse and domestic violence, and trauma and loss.

Attachment-based

It’s not simple, but how we parent really does impact our child’s development more than any other factor. Attachment-based therapy is form of therapy that applies to interventions or approaches based on attachment theory, which explains how the relationship a parent has with its child influences development.

Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)

Cognitive-behavioral therapy stresses the role of thinking in how we feel and what we do. It is based on the belief that thoughts, rather than people or events, cause our negative feelings. We assist our clients in identifying, testing the reality of, and correcting dysfunctional beliefs underlying his or her thinking. We then help you modify those thoughts and the behaviors that flow from them.

Culturally Sensitive

Providing therapy that is culturally sensitive is at the very core of everything we believe at Indigo Waters. We understand that people from different backgrounds have different values, practices, and beliefs, and are sensitive to those differences when working with individuals and families in therapy.

Emotionally Focused

At Indigo Waters, we seek to help you break negative emotion cycles. Using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), our clients identify their emotions, learn to explore and experience them, to understand them, and then to manage them. EFT embraces the idea that emotions can indeed be changed, first by arriving at or ‘living’ the emotion (e.g. loss, fear or shame) in session, and then learning to transform it. EFT for couples seeks to break the negative emotion cycles within relationships, emphasizing the importance of the attachment bond between couples, and how nurturing of the attachment bonds and an empathetic understanding of each others emotions can break the cycles.

Family / Marital

As Family and Marital therapists at Indigo Waters, we work with families or couples, both together and individually, to help them improve their communication skills, build on the positive aspects of their relationships, and repair the harmful or negative aspects.

Mindfulness-based (MBCT)

For clients with chronic pain, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, and other health issues such as anxiety and depression, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, or MBCT, is a two-part therapy that aims to reduce stress, manage pain, and embrace the freedom to respond to situations by choice. MCBT blends two disciplines – cognitive therapy and mindfulness. Mindfulness helps by reflecting on moments and thoughts without passing judgment. At Indigo Waters, MBCT clients learn to pay close attention to their feelings to reach an objective mindset, thus viewing and combating life’s unpleasant occurrences.

Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)

Developed for young children with emotional and behavioral disorders, at Indigo Waters PCIT places emphasis on improving the quality of the parent-child relationship through positively changing parent-child interaction patterns. PCIT is divided into two stages, relationship development (child-directed interaction) and discipline training (parent-directed interaction). Child-Directed Interaction (CDI) focuses on strengthening the parent-child attachment as a foundation for the second phase, Parent-Directed Interaction (PDI), which emphasizes structure and a consistent approach to discipline.

Play Therapy

Generally for children ages 3 to 11, play therapy is a form of counseling that relies on play to help therapists communicate with children and understand their mental health. Because children develop cognitive skills before language skills, at Indigo Waters we strongly believe play is an effective way to understand a child. For example, we may observe your child playing with toys – such as playhouses and dolls – to understand the child’s behavior and identify issues.