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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can occur after you have been through a traumatic event. Anyone who has gone through a life-threatening event can develop PTSD. Combat or military exposure, child sexual or physical abuse, terrorist attacks, sexual or physical assault, serious accidents, such as a car wreck, and natural disasters. Also fires, tornado, hurricane, flood, or earthquake can attribute to symptoms. After the event, you may feel scared, confused, and angry. If these feelings don’t go away or they get worse, you may have PTSD. These symptoms may disrupt your life, making it hard to continue with your daily activities. There are many types of treatment for PTSD. There are several therapeutic techniques associated with the treatment related to PTSD. Here at HTCS we can provide treatment. A type of counseling called cognitive-behavioral therapy and medicines known as SSRIs appear to be the most effective treatments for PTSD. Treatment can help you feel more in control of your emotions and result in fewer symptoms and help retake your life back.

Marriage and family therapy focuses on treating persons involved in interpersonal relationships. Assess, diagnose and treat individuals, couples, families and groups to achieve more adequate, satisfying and productive marriage, family and social adjustment. The practice also includes premarital counseling, child counseling, divorce or separation counseling and other relationship counseling. Providing specialized comprehensive therapy that addresses all issues surrounding the family dynamic.

Child and Adolescences refers to a variety of techniques and methods used to help children and adolescents who are experiencing difficulties with their emotions or behavior. Although there are different types of psychotherapy, each relies on communications as the basic tool for bringing about change in a person’s feelings and behaviors. Treatment may involve an individual child, a group of children, a family, or multiple families. In children and adolescents, playing, drawing, building, and pretending, as well as talking, are important ways of sharing feelings and resolving problems.

Therapy is an extremely effective treatment for depression. Three of the more common methods used in depression treatment include cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal therapy, and psychodynamic therapy. Therapy gives the tools to treat depression from a variety of angles. Therapy helps develop skills and insight to help prevent depression from coming back. Some types of therapy teach practical techniques on how to reframe negative thinking and employ behavioral skills in combating depression. Therapy can also help you work through the root of your depression, helping you understand why you feel a certain way, what your triggers are for depression, and what you can do to stay healthy.

Depression medication may be the most advertised treatment for depression, but that doesn’t mean it is the most effective. Depression is not just about a chemical imbalance in the brain. Medication may help relieve some of the symptoms of moderate and severe depression, but it doesn’t cure the underlying problem, and it’s usually not a long-term solution. Antidepressant medications also come with side effects and safety concerns, and withdrawal can be very difficult. If you’re considering whether antidepressant medication is right for you, learning all the facts can help you make an informed decision.

Traumatic experiences in childhood often involve a threat to life or safety, but any situation that leaves a child feeling overwhelmed and alone can be traumatic, even if it doesn’t involve physical harm. It’s not the objective facts that determine whether an event is traumatic, but the subjective emotional experience of the event. The more frightened and helpless a child feels, the more likely they are to be traumatized. Experiencing trauma in childhood can have a severe and long-lasting effect. Children who have been traumatized see the world as a frightening and dangerous place. When childhood trauma is not resolved, this fundamental sense of fear and helplessness carries over into adulthood, setting the stage for further trauma.

There are stress related issues when dealing with relationships especially when there are same sex and gender issues involved. Our staff has clinical and research experience in dealing with anxiety, depression, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender) issues, career concerns, and addiction recovery. We’ve followed the latest research conducted or published psychological research in areas of Gay & Lesbian issues, addiction, and sexual identity development.

The term co-occurring disorders refers to an individual having co-existing mental health and substance use disorders. Co-occurring disorders integrated treatment addresses two fundamental concerns improving access by ensuring that mental health and substance abuse services are available in the same setting and improving individualization and clinical relevance by combining and modifying the two types of interventions in a coherent fashion. Thus, the burden of addressing both problems and of ensuring compatibility is shouldered by the treatment system rather than by the client. Current interventions, whether they involve individual counseling, group interventions, or other approaches, encompass these two aspects of clinical integration Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Child, Adolescent, and Adult Substance Abuse Sexuality and Identity Disorders Domestic and Family Violence and Grief/Loss Unresolved.

Only three treatments have been proven to be effective for ADHD. There are behavior modification, medication, and the combination of the two. These treatments have been demonstrated to have short-term effects. No treatment has been shown to influence outcomes in adolescents or adults with ADHD over the long term. Some children, adolescents, and adults with ADHD have an increased risk of experiencing difficulties with social skills, such as social interaction and forming and maintaining friendships. About half of children and adolescents with ADHD experience rejection by their peers compared to 10-15 percent of non-ADHD children and adolescents. Training in social skills, behavioral modification and medication may have some limited beneficial effects. The most important factor in reducing emergence of later psychopathology, such as major depression, criminality, school failure, and substance use disorders is formation of friendships with people who are not involved in delinquent activities. Adolescents with ADHD are more likely to have difficulty making and keeping friends due to impairments in processing verbal and nonverbal language.

Establish a sustained recovery, free from the use of all mood-altering substances. Establish and maintain total abstinence while increasing knowledge of the disease and the process of recovery. Acquire the necessary skills to maintain long-term sobriety from all mood-altering substances. Improve quality of personal life by maintaining an ongoing abstinence from all mood-altering chemicals. Withdraw from mood-altering substance, stabilize physically and emotionally, and then establish a supportive recovery plan.

Identify sexual identity and engage in a wide range of relationships that are supportive of that identity. Reduce overall frequency and intensity of the anxiety associated with sexual identity so that daily functioning is not impaired. Disclose sexual orientation to significant others. Return to previous level of emotional, psychological, and social functioning. Eliminate all feeling of depression.

Domestic and family violence is a pattern of behavior which involves the abuse by one person against another in a family or intimate relationship such as marriage, cohabitation, dating or within the family. Domestic violence can take many forms, including physical aggression or assault (hitting, kicking, biting, shoving, restraining, slapping, throwing objects, battery), or threats thereof, sexual abuse emotional abuse, controlling or domineering, intimidation, stalking, passive/covert abuse (e.g., neglect), and economic deprivation. Domestic violence and abuse is not limited to obvious physical violence. Domestic violence can also mean endangerment, criminal coercion, kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, trespassing, harassment, and stalking.

Begin a healthy grieving process around the loss. Develop an awareness of how the avoidance of grieving has affected life and begin the healing process. Complete the process of letting go of the lost significant other. Resolve the loss and begin renewing old relationships and initiating new contacts with others.