
Our Services
At Healing Routes Counseling, LLC., our services are designed to support individuals, couples, and families in navigating life's challenges and fostering mental and emotional well-being.
Anger Management
Anger management counseling helps individuals understand and control their anger. It involves identifying triggers, learning coping skills (like relaxation and communication techniques), and changing thought patterns to express anger in healthier, constructive ways rather than through destructive outbursts.
Body Positivity
Body positivity counseling helps individuals develop a healthier and more accepting relationship with their physical appearance. It focuses on challenging societal beauty standards, addressing negative self-talk and beliefs about one's body, and fostering self-compassion and appreciation for what their body can do, rather than solely on how it looks.
Divorce
Divorce counseling helps individuals and families navigate the emotional, practical, and relational challenges of separation and divorce. It focuses on managing distress, improving communication, developing co-parenting strategies (if applicable), and adjusting to new life circumstances.
Infidelity
Infidelity counseling helps couples or individuals navigate the emotional turmoil and relational crisis caused by an affair. It focuses on processing betrayal, understanding contributing factors, improving communication, rebuilding trust (if chosen), and making decisions about the relationship's future.
Parenting
Parenting counseling provides guidance and support to parents to help them develop effective parenting skills, address child behavioral issues, improve parent-child relationships, and manage the stresses of raising children. It aims to foster a positive and healthy family environment.
Self Esteem
Self-esteem counseling helps individuals identify and challenge negative self-beliefs, build self-acceptance and self-compassion, and foster a more positive and realistic sense of personal worth. It aims to empower individuals to recognize their strengths and value.
Stress
Stress counseling helps individuals identify the sources of their stress and develop effective strategies to manage its impact. It focuses on learning and implementing coping mechanisms, problem-solving skills, and relaxation techniques to reduce stress levels and improve overall well-being.
Women's Issues
Women's issues counseling provides a supportive space to address challenges and experiences that uniquely or disproportionately affect women. It can cover a range of topics including gender-based discrimination, societal pressures, relationship dynamics, reproductive health concerns, self-esteem, and work-life balance, aiming to empower and promote well-being.
Anxiety
Anxiety counseling helps individuals understand and manage excessive worry, fear, and nervousness. It typically involves identifying triggers and unhelpful thought patterns, learning coping strategies (like relaxation techniques and mindfulness), and developing skills to change reactions to anxiety-provoking situations.
Cancer
Cancer counseling provides emotional, psychological, and social support to patients, survivors, and their families. It aims to help them cope with the physical and mental challenges of cancer, navigate treatment, manage stress, and address issues like fear, grief, and changes in life.
Domestic Abuse
Domestic abuse counseling provides support and intervention for individuals affected by domestic violence. For survivors, it focuses on safety planning, emotional healing from trauma, rebuilding self-esteem, and developing coping strategies. For individuals who have caused harm, it aims to address abusive behaviors, promote accountability, and develop healthier relationship skills.
Lesbian
Lesbian counseling, a form of affirmative therapy, offers a supportive and understanding environment for women who identify as lesbian. It addresses unique experiences such as navigating identity, coming out, societal stigma, relationship dynamics, and discrimination, while fostering self-acceptance and well-being.
Peer Relationships
Peer relationship counseling helps individuals develop and maintain healthy social connections with their peers. It focuses on improving social skills, resolving conflicts, building friendships, and addressing issues like social anxiety, bullying, or difficulty fitting in.
Self-Harming
Self-harming counseling provides a safe space for individuals to understand and address the urge to self-injure. It focuses on identifying triggers, developing healthier coping mechanisms to manage emotional pain, ensuring safety, and often addressing underlying issues like trauma, depression, or anxiety.
Suicidal Ideation
Suicidal ideation counseling provides a safe, confidential, and supportive space for individuals experiencing thoughts of ending their life. The focus is on understanding these distressing thoughts, exploring underlying causes, developing coping strategies, creating a safety plan, and fostering hope and reasons for living.
Behavioral Issues
Behavioral issues counseling helps individuals identify and change unhealthy or disruptive patterns of action. It's often action-based, focusing on teaching new, more positive behaviors and coping skills to replace unwanted ones, sometimes involving understanding and modifying underlying thoughts.
Coping Skills
Coping skills counseling helps individuals learn and develop healthy strategies to manage stress, difficult emotions, and challenging life situations. It focuses on identifying and implementing practical techniques to navigate adversity and improve emotional well-being.
Family Conflict
Family conflict counseling helps families improve communication, resolve disputes, and understand underlying dynamics contributing to disagreements. It aims to foster healthier interaction patterns, strengthen relationships, and create a more harmonious family environment.
LGBTQ+
LGBTQ+ counseling, also known as affirmative therapy, provides a safe, knowledgeable, and affirming space for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual and gender minority individuals. It addresses the unique stressors and challenges they may face—such as discrimination, stigma, coming out, identity development, and relationship issues—to promote mental health, self-acceptance, and overall well-being.
Pregnancy, Prenatal, Post-Partum
Pregnancy, prenatal, and postpartum counseling (often called perinatal counseling) provides emotional and psychological support to individuals and couples during the journey of pregnancy and early parenthood. It helps manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship changes, and the adjustment to new roles and challenges associated with this significant life transition.
Sex Positive, Kink Aligned
Sex-positive, kink-aligned counseling offers a non-judgmental and affirming space for individuals to explore diverse sexualities, gender identities, and consensual BDSM/kink practices. It focuses on addressing concerns, desires, and relationship dynamics related to these areas without shame or pathologizing, promoting healthy sexual expression and well-being.
Transgender
Transgender counseling, a form of affirmative therapy, provides a supportive and knowledgeable space for individuals exploring or living as transgender, non-binary, or gender diverse. It focuses on addressing unique experiences related to gender identity, such as gender exploration, social and medical transition, navigating discrimination, mental health concerns, and fostering self-acceptance and overall well-being.
Bisexual
Bisexual counseling, a form of affirmative therapy, provides a supportive and validating space for individuals who are attracted to more than one gender. It focuses on addressing the unique experiences and challenges bisexual individuals may face, such as biphobia, bi-erasure (invisibility), navigating relationships, and understanding their identity in a world that often assumes monosexuality. The goal is to foster self-acceptance, explore identity, and address any mental health concerns in an informed and affirming environment.
Depression
Depression counseling is a type of talk therapy that helps individuals identify and change negative thought patterns and behaviors contributing to their1 depression. It aims to alleviate emotional distress, develop coping skills, and improve overall mood and functioning.
Grief
Grief counseling provides support and guidance to individuals coping with loss. It helps people process complex emotions, develop healthy coping strategies, and navigate the challenges of adjusting to life after a significant bereavement.
Open Relationships
Open relationship counseling helps individuals and partners navigate the complexities of consensually non-monogamous relationships. It focuses on developing clear communication, establishing boundaries and agreements, managing jealousy, and fostering healthy emotional connections among all involved.
Relationship Issues
Relationship issues counseling helps individuals or couples identify and resolve conflicts, improve communication, and strengthen their emotional connection. It focuses on addressing specific problems, fostering healthier interaction patterns, and enhancing overall relationship satisfaction.
Sexual Abuse
Sexual abuse counseling provides a safe and supportive environment for survivors to heal from the trauma of sexual violence. It focuses on processing distressing emotions and memories, developing coping strategies, rebuilding self-esteem and trust, and empowering survivors in their recovery journey.
Trauma and PTSD
Trauma and PTSD counseling helps individuals process and heal from distressing past events. It focuses on managing symptoms like flashbacks and anxiety, developing coping skills, and working through the emotional and psychological impact of trauma to promote recovery and improve quality of life.

