Service

Individual & Family Therapy

Personalized counseling for children, teens, adults, couples, and families

Overview

Therapy at Serene Integrative Services is personalized counseling addressing anxiety, depression, trauma, PTSD, and neurocognitive challenges like ASD and ADHD.

We match you with a clinician and an approach that fits your goals, your history, and your stage of life — not a one-size-fits-all protocol. Sessions are typically weekly to start, then spaced out as you build skills and stability.

Therapy can stand alone or work alongside TMS and behavioral health services within the same practice, so your care team is actually talking to each other.

Who it's for

  • Adults navigating anxiety, depression, burnout, grief, or life transitions
  • Teens facing school stress, identity questions, self-esteem, or mood changes
  • Children who need a developmentally appropriate way to express what's happening
  • Families working through conflict, communication breakdowns, or a new diagnosis
  • Couples wanting to rebuild connection, trust, or communication
  • Anyone carrying trauma who wants a paced, safety-first approach

Symptoms it helps address

  • Persistent worry, panic, or dread
  • Low mood, hopelessness, or loss of motivation
  • Intrusive memories, nightmares, or hypervigilance
  • Irritability and conflict at home, school, or work
  • Difficulty regulating emotions or recovering after being upset
  • Avoidance of people, places, or responsibilities
  • Feeling stuck despite trying to push through alone

Benefits

  • Concrete skills you can use between sessions, not just insight
  • A confidential space to say the things you haven't said out loud
  • Approaches matched to the problem — CBT, EMDR, play therapy, family systems
  • Coordination with TMS and behavioral health services under one roof
  • Measurable progress reviewed with you, so you know whether it's working
  • Telehealth and in-person options for scheduling flexibility

The treatment process

A clear path from first call to maintenance, with no step you didn't agree to.

  1. 1

    Intake and goal setting

    A 50–60 minute conversation about your history, symptoms, and what a good outcome would look like for you.

  2. 2

    Clinical matching

    We pair you with the clinician and modality best suited to your goals — and we'll say so if a different approach or provider would serve you better.

  3. 3

    Weekly sessions

    Structured work on skills, patterns, and processing, with practice between sessions.

  4. 4

    Progress review

    Every six to eight weeks we revisit your goals and rating scales and adjust the plan together.

  5. 5

    Step-down and maintenance

    As you stabilize, sessions space to biweekly or monthly, with the door open for check-ins.

Adult therapy

Individual counseling for anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, stress, burnout, and adult ADHD or autism. Sessions are collaborative and goal-directed, blending evidence-based techniques with room for the parts of your story that don't fit into a protocol.

Teen therapy

Adolescents get a clinician who takes them seriously. We work on anxiety, mood, school pressure, social dynamics, identity, and self-harm risk, with parent involvement calibrated to the teen's age and the family's needs. Confidentiality expectations are set clearly with everyone at the start.

Child therapy

For younger children we use developmentally appropriate methods — play, art, story, and structured skill-building — alongside substantial parent coaching, because young children make the most progress when the adults around them change too.

Family therapy

Family sessions address communication patterns, conflict cycles, parenting alignment, blended-family dynamics, and adjustment after a new diagnosis or a loss. The focus is the relationships in the room, not identifying who is at fault.

Couples therapy

Couples work centers on communication, repair after conflict, trust, intimacy, and navigating major transitions together. Availability depends on current clinician caseloads — ask during your consultation and we'll tell you honestly whether we can take you or should refer out.

Trauma-informed therapy

Every clinician here works from a trauma-informed stance: pacing, choice, and safety come before processing. You will never be pushed to recount details before you have the regulation skills to do it safely.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT targets the loop between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It is among the most researched treatments available for depression, anxiety, panic, and OCD, and it is highly practical — you leave sessions with specific things to try.

EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess traumatic memories so they lose their charge. EMDR is well established for PTSD and single-incident trauma, and does not require detailed verbal retelling of the event.

Play therapy

Play is how children process. Play therapy gives kids a symbolic language for experiences they cannot yet articulate, and gives clinicians a window into what's driving behavior at home and school. Availability varies by clinician — confirm at consultation.

Insurance & coverage

Therapy is covered by most major commercial insurance plans, Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE. We verify your behavioral health benefits — including copay, deductible, and any session limits — before your first appointment, and self-pay rates are available on request.

Insurance & payment details

Your care team

Sessions are provided by licensed clinicians with training in CBT, EMDR, trauma-informed care, and family systems work. We'll tell you who you're seeing and what their specialty is before you book.

Meet the practice

Patient outcomes

We measure progress with standardized rating scales at intake and throughout care, so improvement is documented rather than assumed. Patient stories are published only with written authorization — we never fabricate testimonials.

How we measure outcomes

Frequently asked questions

Start with one conversation

Tell us what you've tried. We'll confirm eligibility, verify your benefits, and map out what treatment would look like.