Child, Adolescent & Family Therapy
Children and adolescents sometimes experience emotional and behavioral difficulties within their families.
L & A therapists' help children learn to assume personal responsibility for their behavior, develop empathy and compassion for others, and appreciate the loving guidance of their parents. We share family-friendly strategies for helping children, adolescents, and their parents to become more harmonious in their family interactions.
Adult & Marital Counseling
Individual and couples sometimes find themselves experiencing emotional discomfort within themselves or in their relationships with others. Directive and supportive counseling, within Judeo-Christian parameters, facilitates individuals and couples in making healthy, loving decisions that foster personal, relational, and spiritual growth.
Psychological Assessments
Psychological evaluations are helpful. In providing pertinent information about a person's intelligence, personality traits, emotional functioning, cognitive processes, and academic achievement levels. L & A offers a full range of psychological, personality projectives, and psycho-educational tests with written summaries of each, and specific recommendations.
Sports Psychology
Our sports psychology program is designed to provide high school, college, and professional athletes' mental strategies that will enable them to improve their concentration, confidence, and competitive edge.
Underachiever Program of Human Potential Specialists
For students who are not achieving the academic successes they are capable of, L& A counselors can be of assistance. It is our belief that ALL students with average ability are capable of receiving A's and B's in every subject when they choose to learn to concentrate, organize, and to work hard. Individual counseling, Psychological Assessments, Educational Testing, Cognitive Enhancement Training, Therapeutic Tutoring, and our School Liaison Services are all designed to work with parents in teaching their children the art and thrill of learning.
Student Outreach Services (SOS)
SOS is a character building experience for the child or adolescent who has been temporarily suspended from school, or who has been disruptive at home. Clients accepted into the program will spend the day in our office engaging in academic and therapeutic activities while being supervised by our trained child care staff.
Custody Evaluations
When parents go through a divorce, their children are deeply affected. L & A's Positive Alternative to Custody Evaluations (PACE) program is designed to ease this difficult transition for all. Our team approach, involving a clinical social worker and clinical psychologist, strives to provide thorough, objective, independent, and child-sensitive recommendations to the Court
Intensive Trust & Bonding Treatment (TBT)
The Intensive Trust and Bonding Treatment Program, operating within the Family Bonding and Attachment Center, provides a 24-hour continuum of therapeutic care. This specialized service was developed to offer parents and child advocates a more effective and cost efficient alternative to traditional psychiatric inpatient and residential placements. Specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of those children who are suffering from disruptions in the bonding attachment process, this innovative and comprehensive program is dedicated to nurturing each child's mind, body, and spirit.
Equine Facilitated Therapy (EFT)
Equine Facilitated Therapy (EFT) is an experientially based therapy that unites children and horses within a therapeutic setting. EFT may include a number of mutually respectful equine activities such as handling, grooming, bonding, exercising, riding, driving, and vaulting. For those with learning disabilities, emotional or behavioral issues, the unique relationship and bond formed between a child and a warm, soft, friendly horse ignites a very special healing process.
Additional Services
Parent Coordination/Mediation
Therapeutic Foster/Respite Care
Forensic Psychology
Therapeutic Tutoring
Bonding Assessment
Adoption Assessment