About Us
Expanding Hope Counseling Services offers a team of experienced therapists whose specialties include:
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Licensed Professional Counseling
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Licensed Clinical Social Worker
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Qualified Treatment Trainees
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Christian Counseling
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Supervision, Training and Consulting
Life can be challenging. We're here to help you navigate the ups and downs.
We believe our lives coexist in the context of our families, work, school, church and community. Growth and change occur within the context of relationships and within a safe, healthy and confidential environment.
Our team provides an integrated theoretical approach to counseling including cognitive behavioral therapy, solution focused therapy, person centered therapy, play therapy, sandtray therapy, motivational interviewing, internal family systems, trauma informed cognitive behavioral therapy, grief and loss and EMDR.
We provide services for clients as little as 2 years old and as young as 99+. We welcome clients from all backgrounds and cultural experiences including the LGBTQIA community and military personnel and their families.
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Vulnerability is difficult for most of us. It takes both courage and strength for some to simply reach out for an appointment. We at Expanding Hope Counseling Services, LLC recognize the courage it took for you to reach out and we welcome you to our safe and confidential place to sort through life’s challenges and find your truth. We begin by identifying and building your strengths for the journey ahead. We consider it a privilege to be companions on the journey with you. Sometimes that means asking the hard questions to help you identify your roadblocks and navigate your way back to your authentic self and other times it is celebrating your successes. Either way all of us here at Expanding Hope Counseling Services find it a privilege and honor to walk with you through the many difficult challenges you are experiencing and watch you grow! Strength, hope, and truth are found are found when we are willing to open ourselves up to our own vulnerability.
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” – Tom Bodett
Isn’t it amazing that we have everything we need to find hope and experience truth? Sometimes it is hard for us to grasp that reality, and find our hope when it feels like parts of our authentic self are deeply embedded underneath layers of negative thoughts, feelings, beliefs we perceive about ourselves as we grow through life. We often identify ourselves with these perceptions of ourselves and forget we are human beings who struggle with certain challenges experienced in life. Growing through painful experiences can be difficult. Our team at Expanding Hope Counseling Services stands ready to help navigate through the difficult times and offer you hope until you can find your hope buried beneath the layers of pain and waiting to be found.
“What I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we have.” —Oprah Winfrey, talk show host and producer
As we approach the end of our journey we begin to realize we really do have everything we need and we are able to embrace hope and experience the truth of who we are. Our team at Expanding Hope Counseling Services want to celebrate with you and encourage you to live your truth. Our lives no longer revolve around people pleasing, social comparison or striving to be someone we are not. Once we have worked through the negative thoughts/feelings/beliefs of our past experiences we are able to experience our truth in a new way. We are on a journey that never ends but now we have gained some tools to navigate life differently allowing us to live in our own authentic truth of who we are.
"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light"