As humans, we experience moments in our lives when things happen that result in pain, frustration, or anger. At Santiam Counseling Center we believe each of us can benefit from meeting with a counselor to process through these emotions.
We understand that some of us are able to quickly connect with and openly share our feelings with a counselor in an office-based, one-on-one setting. For others, we typically deal with these feelings on our own because we either don’t believe counseling will help us, don’t understand the counseling process, or don’t feel comfortable sitting in an office and talking to a stranger about our lives.
At Santiam Counseling Center goal is to make the office-based, one-on-one setting as effective as possible. We seek to do this by working with the client to determine the type of interactions, such as emotion or cognitive focused and soft processing or direct challenging, that work best for the client.
Our individual counseling services are intended for when you need to more successfully work through a challenging experience or relationship. Individual counseling focuses on helping you gain emotional maturity, process difficult times in a healthy way, and improve your ability to relate to others.
We currently provide individual counseling services to adult men and women ages 18+ and adolescent males ages 13-17. Each of our counselors is trained to work with general counseling needs, but each also has specific areas of emphasis that may fit your specific concerns. For more information on these specialty areas, please see the “About Us” page.