About FAIR Counseling Families and Adolescents In Recovery via Telehealth 

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Meet FAIR Counseling

OUR MISSION STATEMENT:    Changing lives, Restoring families

OUR VISION STATEMENT:     Providing highest quality of care through evidenced based treatment and community collaboration.

Families and Adolescents in Recovery, Inc. (FAIR Counseling) serves as a comprehensive and research based treatment provider for adolescents, adults, and their families. FAIR provides intensive outpatient programs, continuing care, as well as individual and family therapy based on neuroscience and evidenced based treatment interventions. The treatment team focuses on the clients’ and their families’ strengths and unique needs in order to address mental health, substance abuse, and self-destructive behavioral issues. During the treatment process, lives are changed and families are restored.

The FAIR program utilizes neurocounseling where understanding of brain physiology merges with traditional counseling modalities.

Neurocounseling

The brain is not a static organ. As we learn new skills and consume more information, we develop new neural pathways that help us retain and make use of that knowledge. This ability is something that we maintain throughout our lifetime and is called neuroplasticity. Counselors can combine their physiological knowledge of the brain with more traditional techniques while practicing neurocounseling. Several studies found this approach to be an effective treatment for a variety of cases. 

Multidimensional Family Therapy

Multidimensional Family Therapy is a comprehensive approach to treating the whole family of the adolescent with behavioral health issues. This model focuses on the development of a healthy and balanced life style and new personal identity. The family relationship is strengthened through open and honest communication and decrease in isolating behaviors. Healthy and supportive relationships with peers, “who are wings not weights”, are gained. Development of responsible academic, extracurricular involvement, and pro-social behaviors in community is established which helps adolescents and young adults find their identity and self-worth. In addition to physical, emotional, familial, intellectual and social domains, the spiritual domain is addressed as a source of strength and a holistic way to bring about recovery. Finally, parents receive support and parenting skills training to address areas such as boundaries, limit setting, appropriate autonomy, and communication.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT relies on the belief that thinking influences mood and behavior. Development of the ability to evaluate and adapt one’s thinking helps an individual change their mood and behaviors. CBT also provides an educative component in helping individuals solve their own problems. CBT teaches patients to identify, evaluate, and respond to their dysfunctional thoughts and beliefs, which can be very empowering to the client. This treatment modality uses a variety of techniques to change one’s thinking, mood, and behavior. Socratic questioning and guided discovery are central to CBT, but it also allows the clinician flexibility to incorporate techniques from other orientations with a cognitive framework. Understanding and following the structure of CBT has been helpful in avoiding unfocused discussions, which can lead to a failure in making productive therapeutic interventions. The collaborative nature of CBT ensures the client has an opportunity to take responsibility for one’s own treatment and recovery, as well as to continue to work on the issues outside of the sessions in the form of homework.

Art Therapy

Additionally, Therapies with art directives are utilized for adolescent and adult clients. These forms of therapy allow for processing emotions and events that might be difficult to initially process through talk therapy. They improve the insight and provide coping skills to deal with stress and difficult emotional experiences. The art therapy provides an opportunity to harness different types of learning styles as well as discover our clients’ strengths and talents.

Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) addresses the mental health needs of children, adolescents, and families suffering from the destructive effects of early trauma. The treatment is particularly sensitive to the unique problems of youth with post traumatic stress and mood disorders resulting from sexual abuse as well as from physical abuse, violence, or grief. If the client is  a child, TF-CBT often brings non-offending parents or other caregivers into treatment and incorporates principles of family therapy.