The Stamford Counseling Center (SCC) is your resource for integrated mental and spiritual health treatment. You’ll find a friendly, helpful staff and a comforting, peaceful environment. We are an independent, 501(C)3 nonprofit mental health organization relying on a combination of fees, insurance, grants and donations to fund our services.




Services Offered

We provide counseling and psychotherapy to individuals, couples and families seeking professional help with emotional difficulties, family crises and relationship conflicts. In our therapy and counseling, we address both the emotional and spiritual dimensions of an individual’s well-being, always respectful of each person’s unique life experience and spiritual orientation.

Couples Therapy

Couple therapy is a counseling procedure that attempts to improve the adaptation and adjustment of two people who form a conjugal unit. It helps couples of all types recognize and resolve conflicts and improve their relationships. Through couple counseling, you can make thoughtful decisions about rebuilding your relationship or going your separate ways. At the SCC, if you’re looking for a specific model of couple counseling, you can choose therapists specifically trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Imago Therapy or the Gottman Method. But any of our therapists can help with the communication problems, the trust issues, the sexual issues, the control issues and the money problems that most commonly lead to diminished relationships. Whether it’s an affair, an Internet or sports addiction, a loss of connection or affection, or a sense of dissatisfaction or general unhappiness in your relationship, the SCC can help.

Individual Psychotherapy

Individual therapy (sometimes called “psychotherapy” or “counseling”) is a process through which clients work one-on-one with a trained therapist—in a safe, caring, and confidential environment—to explore their feelings, beliefs, or behaviors, work through challenging or influential memories, identify aspects of their lives that they would like to change, better understand themselves and others, set personal goals, and work toward desired change. People seek therapy for a wide variety of reasons, from coping with major life challenges or childhood trauma, to dealing with depression or anxiety, to simply desiring personal growth and greater self-knowledge. A client and therapist may work together for as few as five or six sessions or as long as several years, depending on the client’s unique needs and personal goals for therapy.

Adolescent Counseling

The goal in adolescent counseling is to assist teenagers in developing a strong sense of identity rooted in honesty, compassion, self-responsibility, and respect.   We accomplish this by working together with the adolescent teaching them how to express emotions, communicate needs, increase self-confidence, define values, establish personal boundaries, and gain other life skills to set the adolescent up for success academically, emotionally, and socially.  Parents play a vital role in counseling services at the Stamford Counseling Center because we believe in a team approach and you as the parent know your child best! We encourage you to be an active participant in your adolescent’s therapy experience.  We will check in with you regularly and will want your feedback on how your son or daughter is doing at home.

Grief Counseling

Grief counseling aims to help people cope with grief and mourning following the death of loved ones, or following major life changes that trigger feelings of grief (e.g., divorce, loss of a job, etc.). Grief can shake everything up – your beliefs, your personality, and even your sense of reality. Bereavement is the time we spend adjusting to loss. There is no standard time limit and there is no right or wrong way to feel during the bereavement period – everyone must learn to cope in his or her own way. Talking about a loss often allows a person to adjust to their new life with all its changes – good and bad. Keeping things bottled up or denying the sadness could prolong the pain. Any loss has to be acknowledged for us to move forward. Grief counseling tries to help clients find a place for their loss so they can carry on with life and eventually find acceptance.

We’re a resource for the entire Fairfield County community, working independently and in collaboration with other agencies and organizations to reach everyone who can benefit from our services.




Fees and Payment



In most cases, our fees are either covered by insurance or subsidized by out

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Services Offered To:
Adults
Couples
Teens
Children

Special Groups:
Bilingual

Payment:
Sliding Scale
Medicare
Medicaid