Our Services
Mullica Hill Psychological Services offers individual and family counseling sessions both in our local hometown professional suite and/or telehealth virtual sessions online via a secure HIPPA compliant, confidential website.
Marriage Therapy Sessions
Therapy sessions utilize a couple-centered approach to enhance a new style of communication to improve the relationship. The couple will be expected to complete joint tasks designed to enhance intimacy and regain the sense of commitment toward the marriage.
Individual Therapy Sessions
Therapy sessions are a collaborative experience utilizing a present-focused, problem-solving approach grounded in evidence-based Cognitive Behavior techniques. With a present-focused approach, clients will establish new strategies to enhance self-care through a therapy plan that includes goal setting, homework assignments, and a personal thought journal. Increased insight will include an examination of thinking patterns, personal choices, and relationship dynamics that govern client behaviors.
Family Counseling
Parents serve a pivotal role initiating a child’s behavior change. Thus, parents will be active participants in their child’s therapy sessions. Parents will provide active contributions regarding therapeutic homework assignments and establish realistic family goals for their child’s therapy success. Through treatment sessions, the family will identify new ways to shape adaptive behaviors that lead to improved child functioning. All sessions will be structured utilizing a cognitive behavior format.
What is Cognitive Behavior Therapy?
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is an active, didactic approach to counseling focused primarily on problem solving and goal setting to help clients achieve a new way of living. Like other therapeutic models, CBT is insight and present focused.
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Psychologists recognize that personal thoughts (cognitions) effect our emotional experience of events and then ultimately influence our behavior. The benefit of this fact is that we can change and control the way we think so that we can improve our mood and change our behavior, even if the situation does not change. Thus, a change in thinking can produce the desired change in affect and behavior.
In Cognitive Behavior Therapy, a client is instructed to recognize the automatic thoughts that influence their mood and behavior. Maladaptive thoughts distort reality and can negatively affect a client’s mood. In therapy, the psychologist works collaboratively with the client to identify and test the validity of these thoughts. During the course of treatment, clients are challenged to trade maladaptive beliefs for more accurate conceptualizations of reality. When clients develop a more accurate picture of their world, they can improve their ability to make choices and solve the problems in their life.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy requires an understanding and supportive connection between the therapist and client. Since the therapeutic relationship is an essential component for a positive treatment outcome, treatment will involve a collaborative approach designed to empower clients to incorporate skills learned in counseling sessions into their everyday life.
Mullica Hill Psychological Services is a network provider for several insurance plans. Please contact the office because your plan may be able to utilize out-of-network benefits if not covered at our practice.
A financial hardship waiver is available upon request. MHPS will adopt a sliding reduced-fee scale for qualified applicants.