Therapy serves many purposes.  It can help you maintain mental health, lead to a deeper level of self-knowledge, save relationships, and restore family harmony.  Several options are offered for your convenience.  If you are not sure which option is right for you, please give me a call.

Adult/Individual Therapy

Individual therapy provides a safe, confidential way to discuss your concerns.  A therapist's perspective may help to uncover solutions as you talk through difficult or painful personal situations.  Issues commonly addressed in individual therapy include:

- Depression
- Anxiety
- Stress
- Problems with relationships
- Recovery from an experience of trauma or abuse
- Major life change/adjustment

Couples Counseling

Whether you can clearly identify the problem or if you know that something "just doesn't feel right," couples counseling can improve the quality, communication and enjoyment of you and your partner's relationship.  Issues commonly addressed in couples counseling include:

- Constant arguing or fighting
- Differing plans for the future
- Disagreement on major decisions
- Loss or change in affection
- Anger or irritability
- Parenting debates

Couples counseling may occasionally include individual sessions, if agreed to by both parties.

Family Therapy

When one or more family members is "out of balance," it can affect the entire family's behavior, mood and communication.  Family therapy can provide a safe way to address core issues.  Balancing the needs and sensitivities of individual family members with those of the larger family unit is the therapist's primary goal in successful family therapy.  Issues commonly addressed in family therapy include:

- Breakdowns in family communication
- Loss or addition of a family member
- Illness of a family member
- Other major change to family structure
- Adjustment for step-families or blended families
- Adoptive family adjustment
- Divorce or separation

Typically, a combination of individual and family sessions is used in family therapy.

Child/Youth Therapy

If your child is behaving in a manner that you don't understand or can't tolerate, then outside intervention may be necesssary.  Confidentiality is maintained between the child and the therapist unless a plan is developed where sharing of information is determined to be therapeutically appropriate.  Issues commonly addressed in child therapy include:

- Poor behavior in school or at home
- Living with new family members
- Childhood anxiety
- Dealing with an illness
- Coping with divorce

Child/youth therapy almost always involves family sessions.

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Claire Greenhill, MS, LMHC 
600 N. 36th Street 
Suite 316
Seattle, Washington 98103

(206) 658-5374 - phone
(206) 260-7115 - fax

Claire@NorthSeattleTherapy.com