| |
In-Home
Family Counseling
An
Effective Family and Community Systems Approach
Psychotherapist
Judy Hoffmann
MSE, LPC, NCC
(920)
292-4579
In-Home Family Counseling: What Is It?
This
program provides the convenience and effectiveness of family
counseling right in your own home. Your counselor is a masters-degreed
state licensed psychotherapist with years of experience working
with families.
In-Home
Family Counseling focuses on helping you get more of what
you want in your family interactions. Your family and the
counselor work together to define and achieve your goals.
The
counseling is individually tailored to your family needs,
scheduled as frequently as needed and declining in intensity
with positive change. This approach is designed to create
positive change quickly, providing “tools” to
apply changes across new situations and family transitions.
Your
In-Home counselor also works with you in coordinating services
with school and other community agencies, programs, and health
providers, when indicated. If necessary to facilitate this,
the counselor will meet at the school or other locations.
(If for any reason you prefer an office setting or other location
for part or all of services, the counselor will arrange for
this.)
Why
“In-Home” Instead of Counseling in the Office?
Counseling
in your home can provide advantages, increasing the opportunities
for positive change to occur. These
advantages include:
- Family
counseling in your own home gives you a comfortable, familiar,
and confidential place, which often helps make the process
more effective for you, and provides opportunity for the
counselor to get a true picture of family interactions.
- Your
family can try out changes in the place you interact the
most. This often makes it easier for you to apply new behaviors
in real life situations.
- Flexible
scheduling: your In-Home Counselor keeps a small caseload
to help make scheduling availability timely and as frequent
as needed.
- In-Home
Counseling is convenient for you: no travel time to and
from a clinic, and less problems coordinating everyone’s
schedules (evening and Saturday hours available, too).
- The
billing rate for In-Home Counseling is the same as the rate
for counseling in the office. Travel time is not charged,
with some exceptions, as when greater than 1 hour round
trip.
Your
Family is Likely to Benefit from In-Home Family Counseling
if any of the following apply:
- Your
child/adolescent is struggling with emotional and/or behavioral
problems.
- You
are frustrated with parenting a difficult child (one who
often argues, often refuses to comply, often gets angry
or spiteful, threatens, or is destructive).
-
Your child/adolescent is diagnosed ADD/ADHD, Oppositional
Defiant Disorder, Depressive or Dysthymic Disorders, Bipolar
Disorders, etc., and your family is struggling to maintain
effective interactions.
- Your
family has experienced unusual stress and one or more of
you are having difficulties due to it.
- There’s
a lot of unproductive arguing and tension among family members.
- Your
child/adolescent is having difficulties now and has a history
of emotional/behavioral medication, past mental health hospitalizations,
or traditional counseling has not been helpful.
- Counseling
is recommended but you (or a family member) are physically
disabled or for other reasons have difficulty getting to
an office setting for counseling
For more
information about In-Home Family Counseling contact:
Judy Hoffmann
MSE, LPC, NCC
(920) 292-4579
This
service is often covered under your mental health benefits
available through your health insurance.
|
|
