Cross Roads Counseling

 

People do what they do to achieve a measure of emotional safety. As we build our families or work on developing ourselves we encounter problems we cannot handle well. Often these problems stem from solutions or adaptations we devised when we were younger that no longer work. Counseling is getting some help to work on stuff that blocks our personal or family goals.

A counselor or psychotherapist is like a guide. People do not get problems they can handle -- if you can handle the stress or complication or feeling, it does not become a problem! Since everyone has some kind of problem, now and then everyone can utilize the skills of a professionally trained guide to help with the journey of the moment.

People who seek counseling are intelligent and capable. Some problems admit to faster solutions. Other issues were long in development and take longer to sort out. However, in general, there is too much labeling these days -- we are too quick to lay blame elsewhere or to see the bearer of the symptom as the only problem.

Cross Roads Counseling seeks to find the strengths of a family, a couple, or an individual, and to nurture the depth and power of the yearning to be whole. We have experience with marriage counseling, substance abuse treatment, working with teenagers, the dynamics of complicated family systems, psychological evaluations, and healing related to clergy misconduct.

 

Religious organizations have complicated
patterns of community. Power and influence
are both developed and shared differently
than in traditional for-profit businesses.
Success is variously defined. External
incentives are absent. Values, even if
stated in vision statements, are often
followed in minimal ways. Leaders are
usually chosen, not grown organically. Communication is a mixed bag, wildly
different assumptions are common, and
conflict is rarely engaged in healthy ways.
Change is frequently managed with
ineffective approaches. Oddly,
forgiveness can be a difficult commodity
to find.

Cross Roads Counseling can provide
resource leadership to help a religious
organization find safe passageways
through difficult terrain.

Couples in the process of envisioning a
life together can usually benefit from
focused, limited-term counseling that
examines parental influences,
decision-making, personality style,
finances, and training in ways to
communicate effectively. Such
pre-marital counseling typically
takes three appointment sessions.

Conflict Mediation Services

The best conflict theory has been developed
in the context of religious organizations. 
Cross Roads Counseling can provide
consultant leadership to help an organization identify the stage of conflict and to work
in a collaborative fashion with motivated
leaders to achieve best case solutions.

These context-sensitive principles can also
be applied to couples who have made the
decision to separate but could benefit from a process oriented, trained conflict mediator.  

Psychological Assessment

Clinical Psychologists are
trained in the administration and
interpretation of sophisticated instruments
that can aid in the development of a solid
diagnosis which can then lead to a more
precise treatment plan. These assessment instruments range from those that measure intelligence to ones that give insight into
personality dynamics.