Adults

If not now…when?  Each phase of adulthood brings its own set of challenges. Transitions in life are always occurring. Focusing on your needs can be complicated because there are many other things competing for your attention in life. The experienced therapists at Balance Beacon allow you the opportunity to focus on yourself. They will assist you with the different types of challenges you can face that may affect your well-being. 

Specific examples include:

• Going to college, graduation, moving, having children, marriage, retirement, divorce, or job loss 

• Once adulting starts, people tend to become too busy to think of themselves and start having difficulties with expressing emotions

• Emotional breakdowns

• Overly involved (i.e., enmeshed) family members

• Assault or some other form of violence

• Poor boundary setting

Through therapy our clients have access to a better life

• Regaining a sense of purpose

• Understanding how the past affects the present

• Learning skills to manage the different frustrations in life

• Decreasing negative thoughts by replacing them with positive thoughts

• Develop knowledge about ways to communicate and express emotions in healthy manner

LGBTQ+

Despite rapidly growing cultural acceptance of diverse sexual and romantic orientations and gender identifications, oppression, discrimination, and marginalization of LGBTQ+ people persists. Coping with discrimination and oppression, coming out to one’s family, and sorting out an “authentic” sense of self in the face of social expectations and pressures can lead to higher levels of depression, anxiety, substance use, and other mental health concerns for LGBTQ+ people.

We can help you to deal with your challenges and find an authentic life by

• Processing Discrimination & Homophobia

• Giving opportunities to explore gender identity and expression

• Enhance understanding of the “coming out” process

• Understand & Work Through Trauma

• Develop of coping skills to work through addiction, anxiety, depression, and sexual compulsivity

• Address Relationship Issues

Our entire team is dedicated to the mental and emotional health of the LGBTQ+ community.

Families

With our families, we take a systems approach, by looking at the entire family system and how they do or do not work together to find the best method for guiding them. 

• Many times it seems like no one ever agrees, everything is a problem all the time, which becomes very stressful

We move forward together

• Understand everyone’s needs and see how we can meet them as a whole

• Learn communication skills together

• Identify the problem and not simply focus on the person. 

• Focus on achievable solutions for the family unit 

• If necessary, identify generational traumas that complicate how everyone relates to each other

Children and Adolescents

Children and adolescents sometimes struggle with finding their voice in such a big world. 

Symptoms we see include:

• Uncontrollable anger

• Shyness

• Inability to identify their emotions

• Feeling overwhelmed by schoolwork

• Bullying 

• Difficulty talking to and/or relating to parents

• Feelings of isolation and loneliness

• Trouble related to development of sexuality and gender identity

Our goal is to help youth discover ways to understand their inside hurts and express them on the outside. We focus on the needs of the family while including the needs of the child/adolescent. We use a variety of techniques to inspire communication between staff, client, and parents to foster growth and understanding. This collaborative effort creates a team for the child to develop the skills to confront the challenges in their life.  

Children and adolescents deserve a happy life, and therapy can help to

• Improve self esteem

• Build confidence

• Develop effective and assertive communication skills

• Understand boundaries, how to set them, and how to enforce them

• Find ways to improve critical thinking skills

• Have a safe space to express themselves while they learn

Couples

Taking the leap to move forward in life with a partner can be a complicated decision. Nevertheless, many decide to take that journey. Sometimes overlooked by the couple are the complications that come with sharing life and time with someone else. 

• Loss of passion

• Anger and jealousy

• Changes in values

• Differences in child rearing

• Aging

• Incompatibility

• Sexual dysfunction 

• Financial distres

We teach couples ways to:

• Become selfless

• Communicate, including, disagreeing without damaging the relationship

• Heal after Infidelity

• Improve their sex life

• Define and refine the goals of the couple

Substance Abuse

We help addicts uncover what is drawing them to their substance of choice. We help to heal from the shame and guilt that developed because of the addiction. Find a life that can be experienced without the active use of substances. 

We guide you on a journey of recovery to a new life

• Learn who you are after living your life in a world of addiction

• You are not your past and you do not have to hold yourself hostage

• There is more to life than the life you created 

• Become a different person and be free of your past problems