Services We Offer

At Wholistic Therapy and Coaching Center of the Midlands, we see the client through the lens of the whole person, body, mind, and spirit. Your therapist will hold a safe, confidential, and encouraging space for you to explore moods, memories, feelings, thoughts, behaviors, and goals in order to feel empowered, enlivened, healed and whole in your life.

People seek individual therapy for many reasons, some of which may be: anxiety, depression, trauma, self-esteem, childhood issues, learning differences and academic problems, (ADHD and learning disabilities) family difficulties, pain, motivation, spiritual issues, social problems, occupational and vocational problems, sexual difficulties, and more. Your therapist will use the modalities they specialize in and the ones most appropriate for you. Typically sessions last for 50-55 minutes.

Although all couples have a unique dynamic, there are often themes that come up that may cause suffering, confusion, withdrawal, and even fear or hopelessness at times. Below is a list of some of the potential problems that may cause a couple to seek therapy:

The counseling and therapy process involves addressing the couple’s presented issues with compassion, understanding, knowledge, and skillful, evidence-based approaches. Couples will learn how to productively address conflict, improve communication patterns, and find ways to reconnect and experience renewed hope. Usually couples come with the intention, commitment, or at least the hope of staying committed to each other and working on improving their relationship. If this intention is not initially present, it may develop during the therapy process. Occasionally one or both partners might be determined to end the relationship and are seeking support and guidance to transition out of the current situation. Couples therapy can also be helpful in this circumstance. Good support and guidance might help bring forth the most positive outcome going forward, ending a relationship with integrity, kindness and respect.

There are many methods of doing couple's work, most based on years of research that help understand couples' particular patterns and challenges. Gottman Method of Couples Therapy, Imago Relationship Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and at times brief or solution focused therapy may be appropriate for some couples. These are all topics that may be discussed with the therapist at the initial appointment.

Issues could include grief and loss, mental illness of a family member, parent-child relational difficulties, and significant family transitions. Modalities might include the use of genograms to understand family patterns, talk therapy, experiential therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and play therapy.

These concerns might include anxiety, depression, past abuse or trauma, behavioral difficulties, adjustment issues, grief and loss, divorce, school related problems, or relationship difficulties. Modalities provided during counseling sessions might include talk therapy, family work, cognitive behavioral therapy, dream work, journaling, and mindfulness guidance.

It is not a substitute or replacement for therapy provided by licensed clinicians trained to treat mental, emotional, and psychological disorders. The art and science of coaching is to facilitate success for the client without providing advice or “professional opinions”. The client is the expert in his or her own life.

Definition of Coaching: “Professional Coaching is an ongoing professional relationship that helps people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organizations. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life. In each meeting, the client chooses the focus of conversation, while the coach listens and contributes observations and questions. This interaction creates clarity and moves the client into action. Coaching accelerates the client's progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice. Coaching concentrates on where clients are now and what they are willing to do to get where they want to be in the future. Coaches recognize that results are a matter of the client's intentions, choices and actions, supported by the coach's efforts and application of the coaching process.”

— Source: International Coach Federation (coachfederation.org)

It falls within the fields of therapy, personal growth and spiritual direction and is offered within individual sessions as well as in groups.

In therapy: Dream work may be taught as a self-help technique or used as part of a broader therapy program.

In a group setting: It may be focused primarily on personal growth or used as an adjunct to another therapeutic model.

In Spiritual Direction: Dream work may be used to explore and clarify life concerns and deeply held perspectives. What is the Holy One trying to say to you through the dream?

The experienced counselor does not “interpret” a client’s dream, but acts as a guide to explore the dream, allowing the dreamer to discover their own meaning and message. The counselor gathers information by asking for more visual detail, emotional mood, body-felt experiences and more from the dream. One’s own imagery, language and emotion are unique to the dreamer and understood best by the dreamer. The counselor acts as a guide in this exploration.

A well-trained practitioner may provide questions and connections to spur the dreamer toward finding new and creative ways to heal.

All genuine spiritual help should aid another person to become more open to how the Holy Spirit is showing up in one’s every day life. Here at Wholistic Therapy and Coaching Center, we have three therapists who are also trained as spiritual directors. We have trained at Sursum Corda School for Spiritual Direction, The Hayden Institute, and The Institute for Spirituality. Several of our therapists have also taught in these institutions. We believe, as stated in 1 Thessalonians 5:25, that we always have an eye toward the person as a whole, mind, body, and spirit, and that a person’s psyche is not separable from their spiritual world. If you are seeking spiritual direction, please identify that when you call the office and one of our trained people will contact you.

While our topics are many, topics may include:

Several of our team lead retreats regularly. This might range from a day long staff meeting, a retreat for the leaders of your church, a family parish weekend, clergy retreat, or a women’s or men's retreat. Perhaps you have a leadership team or a department that needs to build cohesion and work through some difficult issues. We can help with that, too. For more about the retreats/workshops, please refer to the individual bios of our staff and look for this information there. You can also call the office and you will be guided to just the right person to help you.