Awakenings Counseling Services, LLC
Thank you for visiting Awakenings Counseling Services, LLC website, and for considering us to serve your counseling and professional development needs. We are a holistic and comprehensive licensed practice that offers many services in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, we continue to see clients via safe confidential Telehealth and Zoom settings, where you will be sent a secure link for counseling sessions. We are intentional in employing creative ways to connect in this unique platform attuned to your specific needs. We are committed to helping you meet your individual goals on your journey of healing, change, and growth.
It is not so easy to decide on counseling, and we know it can be challenging to choose the right counselor. We want you to know we are culturally sensitive mental healthcare providers who genuinely care about what you are going through. Regardless of what your situation and needs may be, we will be sensitive to your personal needs. We have over 20 years of clinical experience and specialize in counseling individuals, couples, families and children/teens in the areas of trauma, depression, anxiety, grief, and self-harm. We believe people can grow, change, be healed, and Awaken to every possibility. Your counseling plan will be uniquely customized to meet your individual or group needs.
Services
Anger Management
is the process of learning to recognize signs that you’re becoming angry, and taking action to calm down and deal with the situation in a productive way.
Anxiety
is a worry about future events, and fear is a reaction to current events. These feelings may cause physical symptoms, such as a fast heart rate and shakiness.
Behavioral Issues
Behavioral issues, also known as disruptive behavioral disorders, are the most well-known reasons parents are told to take their children for mental health evaluations and therapy. Behavioral disorders are also common in adults.
Bipolar Disorder
is a mental health condition that causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania or hypomania) and lows (depression).
Borderline Personality
is a mental health disorder that impacts the way you think and feel about yourself and others, causing problems functioning in everyday life. It includes self-image issues, difficulty managing emotions and behavior, and a pattern of unstable relationships.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
establishes a “dialectic” between helping individuals to accept the reality of their lives and their own behaviors on the one hand and helping them learn to change their lives, including dysfunctional behaviors, on the other.
Family Conflict
is struggle or disagreement between parents, parent and child or other members of a family.
Grieving
may be experienced as a mental, physical, social, or emotional reaction. Mental reactions can include anger, guilt, anxiety, sadness, and despair. Physical reactions can include sleeping problems, changes in appetite, physical problems, or illness.
LGBTQ
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender queer or gender non-conforming people might face specific health concerns related to their gender incongruence, sexual orientation, practices and social stigma.
Life Transitions
are usually life changing events that cause us to re-examine our present sense of being. They can be predictable – such as children leaving the home or marriage but they can often be unpredictable – such as a move, an accident or a loss.
Marital and Premarital
also called couples therapy, is a type of psychotherapy. It helps couples of all types recognize and resolve conflicts and improve their relationships.
NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY
Narcissistic Personality
is a mental condition in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for excessive attention and admiration, troubled relationships, and a lack of empathy for others.
Parenting
While parenting is one of the highest joys in life, it is also one of the most challenging. Parents are responsible for meeting their child’s physical and emotional needs and teaching them life skills, social skills, and appropriate behaviors.
Relationship Issues
disagreement or confrontation between two or more members of a single group, as when people on a work team have different opinions about how best to accomplish a specified goal.
Self-Esteem
is an individual’s subjective evaluation of their own worth. It reflects a person’s physical self-image, view of his or her accomplishments and capabilities, and values and perceived success in living up to them, as well as the ways in which others view and respond to that person.
Self Harming
is the act of deliberately harming your own body, such as cutting or burning yourself. This type of self-injury is a harmful way to cope with emotional pain, intense anger and frustration.
Stress
the physiological or psychological response to internal or external stressors. Stress involves changes affecting nearly every system of the body, influencing how people feel and behave.
Suicidal Thoughts
is thinking about, considering, or planning suicide. The range of suicidal ideation varies from fleeting thoughts, to extensive thoughts, to detailed planning.
Financing
Cost per Session: Call or Email For a Free Consultation
Sliding Scale: Yes
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Anthem
- BlueCross and BlueShield
- Cenpatico
- Cigna
- ComPsych
- MHNet Behavioral Health
- Medicaid
- MultiPlan
- Optum
- UnitedHealthcare
- WellCare
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