The Joshua Center provides affordable counseling services for people struggling with depression, anxiety, marital difficulties, sexual issues (as defined by the client), parent-child issues and other individual and family concerns.
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Services Offered
The Joshua Center does not provide emergency services. Should you experience an emergency situation, please call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.
Individual Therapy - The Joshua Center provides therapy for individuals who are looking to live a more healthy and well-balanced life. Our counselors take a distinctively relational approach in helping individuals address concerns relating to family of origin, addiction, depression, anxiety, stress from work, boundaries, trauma, PTSD, grief, loneliness, disappointment and more. By working consistently with a counselor, our clients have been able to process hurt from their past and have learned how to utilize personal experience to create a more hopeful future.
Couples Therapy - The Joshua Center believes in healthy and thriving relationships. We work with couples on matters that can keep us from experiencing fulfilling and long-lasting love. From issues about money, sex, children, and work - to concerns like infidelity and severe mental or physical illness, our counselors work with couples to help them navigate life's challenges. Our focus is to help couples work through issues to build unity and a healthy connection to each other.
EFT (Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy) - Emotionally focused therapy is based on a theory of attachment that has been proven through research. Studies show that having safe bonds and healthy attachments can help you navigate life with less anxiety and chaos. EFT believes that emotions themselves have an innately adaptive potential that, if activated, can help clients change problematic emotional states or unwanted self-experiences. Emotions are connected to our most essential needs- to be connected to others.
Play Therapy - Play therapy is an effective approach regardless of age, gender or presenting problem. It works best when a parent, family member or caretaker is actively involved in the treatment process. Play therapy is a primary intervention or supportive therapy for behavioral issues caused by bullying, grief, loss, divorce, abandonment, physical and sexual abuse, crisis and trauma.
Premarital - The Joshua Center joins soon to be arriving couples in identifying and addressing potential challenges and helping them build on relational strengths. We meet 6-15 times and prefer to begin roughly 6 months before the wedding. We believe that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure and are honored to join this sacred process in people's lives and therefore address topics like family of origin, sex, money, expectations, roles, cycles and other areas that reveal insight to having better unity.
Fees and Payment
We are a nonprofit agency.
Services Offered To: Adults Couples Teens Children
Special Groups: Bilingual LGBTQ
Payment: Sliding Scale Medicare Medicaid
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A community counseling agency is a group therapy practice that offers affordable mental health services. Most are independent non-profit agencies, state agencies, or publicly-funded agencies. A few may restrict who is eligible for services, so it is a good idea to check when you call.
Community counseling agencies are generally more affordable than other therapy providers, but how much more affordable they are will depend on whether you qualify for a discount or sliding scale fee (or if they accept your insurance). Many, but not all, have a policy that they won't turn away anyone due to inability to pay. You should ask about their fees when you first call.
Expect to talk to kind people who want to help you find the care you need. Most community agencies strive to connect you with a live person within 24 hours, if not immediately. If you're asked to hold or leave a message, don't give up; just leave a message and wait. You should hear back pretty quickly.
Most agencies try to set up an initial assessment appointment within a week (some do within 24 hours), though the waitlist to start therapy is usually longer—about a few weeks on average. If you're not eligible or if the agency is not right for you, it's usually still worth it to call or drop in, because staff are knowledgeable about local options and can often refer you to one.