One-on-one counseling
Connect better with yourself and others through individual counseling with April Lau, LMHC
what are your goals?
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Feeling less upset, sad, anxious, angry frustrated, irritable, guilty, and/or ashamed
Knowing how to prevent and overcome feeling overwhelmed
Less second-guessing myself & replaying of my mistakes
Reduced Panic, Worry & Fear
Anxiety no longer getting in the way of my personal, life, and professional goals
Increased confidence while I’m learning to be less afraid
Learning how to calm the anxiety in my body
Asking for help/being OK with receiving help
Decreasing my fear of the unknown
Decreased catastrophizing/less making a mountain out of a mole hill
Social/Performance Goals:
Less worry about the judgment of others
Being OK with being awkward
Telling someone something they might not like to hear
Making a new friend
Learning to be bold
Going out even if I don’t feel my best
Being OK with being noticed
Applying for a job, asking for a raise
Using the telephone
Learning to go to new places
Being able to do things alone
Repetitive Thoughts and Compulsions:
Freedom from time-consuming rituals
Breaking free of unnecessary rules
Eliminating repetitive thoughts
Increasing my ability to do something once and then move on
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Rewriting your story of who you are
Coming to terms with the past
Changing what you don’t like about yourself or finding a way to accept what you don’t like
Learning to be OK with your choices, opinions, and beliefs even when people that are important to you disagree
Learning who you are independent of the roles you play (hint! You aren’t just a student, mother, or engineer.)
Being OK with not knowing everything about who you are or who you’ll be in the future
Embracing what makes you unique
Embracing what makes you average
Finding out more about your values
Incorporating new information about yourself into your story about who you are
Realizing you deserve to be treated better, to ask for more, to say no to mistreatment
Learning about your strengths
Dealing with life changes
Focusing less on what you look like and more on what’s important to you
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Telling others how you really feel/Standing up for yourself when you want to
Freeing yourself from playing the role everyone expects of you
Shifting from a kid-parent relationship dynamic to an adult child-parent relationship
Deepening relationships
Meeting new people/Making room for new relationships/Becoming more social
Navigating life transitions/Starting a new job/Getting a promotion
Asking for help/Accepting help
Setting firmer boundaries/Letting people in more
Becoming more open/Becoming more cautious about sharing
Becoming less aggressive
If you’re an overthinker, let’s make those thoughts work for you.
If your feelings mess with you, let’s make them work for you instead. Or if your actions lead you astray, let’s change it up.
Wouldn’t it be worth spending a few hours helping yourself?
Contact us @ 401-722-5026 or start@qualitycounselingne.com
Why April?
Sometimes it feels good to just have someone to talk to. But sometimes just talking to someone neutral isn’t enough. April will help you assess your needs and make a plan for addressing them. Instead of feeling like you are aimlessly wandering through therapy, hoping someday all this talking will pay off, you’ll learn how therapy works for your type of issue and develop a customized plan for tackling whatever challenges you are facing. With focused therapy, you may start noticing changes in as little as one session.
Why Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with April?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is designed to help you use the problems you have today to learn how to solve your future problems. April will help you learn how to solve the issues that bother you now and turn that new know-how into a tool to use in future situations. Maybe today’s hurdle is a family member you can’t seem to get along with today. Learn how to stand up for yourself without walking all over them and you’ll be better able to deal with friends and coworkers in the future.
What’s April’s experience helping people like me?
April trained in 2007-2008 & had her first job as a counselor in 2008. Since graduating with her masters in mental health counseling she has been working with clients one-on-one, in group therapy, or in couples therapy. She has a Certificate in Cognitive Behavioral Interventions, which means she doesn’t just think CBT is the ideal treatment; she is trained specifically in this type of therapy.
It is important that
…YOUR COUNSELOR HAVE A THEORETICAL ORIENTATION, A LENS THROUGH WHICH THEY FOCUS YOUR TREATMENT INSTEAD OF HOPING THE MAGIC WILL JUST HAPPEN WHEN YOU GET TOGETHER. I STUDIED COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY WITH DANIEL BECK, LICSW, AN EXPERT IN CBT AND THE SON OF THE FOUNDER OF CBT, THROUGH BOSTON UNIVERSITY’S SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK AND AM DEDICATED TO HELPING PEOPLE DEVELOP HAPPIER CONNECTIONS WITH OTHERS AND THEMSELVES.
/ APRIL LAU, LMHC /