The Community Psychological Service (CPS) is an outpatient mental health center established by the University of Missouri-St. Louis to provide psychological services to residents of the St. Louis metropolitan area.
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Services Offered
Child & Family Therapy - Every year, CPS partners with families, healthcare professionals, schools and other agencies to promote the overall health and well-being of children and adolescents. Working closely with caregivers, we provide comprehensive treatment services for a variety of behavioral and emotional concerns such as: * Anxiety and depression * Poor attention or hyperactivity * Aggression, anger, and defiant behaviors * Body image and eating concerns * Stress and coping difficulties * Peer relationship and social problems * Difficulties with problem solving and decision making * School-related difficulties * Adjustment to changes in family make-up, bereavement, or health concerns
Family therapy is also provided to help foster relationships and address concerns such as blended/step-family issues, parent-child and family conflict, and communication difficulties. Sessions usually last for an hour and typically include all family members. Working closely with your family therapist, you and your family will learn to communicate more effectively to help foster more harmonious relationships. In this way, family members learn to work together to promote the wellbeing of the family as a whole and its individual members.
Couples Counseling - Couples therapy (sometimes called marriage counseling), is a type of psychotherapy that helps couples of all types recognize and resolve conflicts and improve their relationships. Couples therapy is often short term and involves both individuals. However, one or both may also opt to work individually with a separate therapist.
Some couples seek counseling to strengthen their bonds and gain a better understanding of each other. Couples counseling can also help couples who plan to marry. This counseling can help couples achieve a deeper understanding of each other and resolve differences before marriage. In other cases, couples seek counseling to improve a troubled relationship. Couples counseling is used to address many specific issues, including: * Communication problems * Sexual difficulties * Conflicts about child rearing and/or blended families * Substance abuse * Financial problems * Anger * Infidelity * Divorce
Couples counseling might also be helpful in cases of domestic conflict. If violence has escalated to the point that you're afraid, however, counseling alone isn't adequate. Contact the police or a local shelter or crisis center for emergency support.
Couples counseling typically brings couples together for joint therapy sessions. Working with a therapist, you'll learn skills to solidify your relationship. These skills might include communicating openly, solving problems together and discussing differences rationally. You'll analyze both the good and bad parts of your relationship as you pinpoint and better understand the sources of your conflicts. Talking about your problems with a counselor might not be easy. If you or your partner is coping with mental illness, substance abuse or other issues, your therapist might work with other health care providers to provide comprehensive care.
Adult Therapy - Individual therapy is provided for those who wish to work one to one with a therapist to explore and address their personal difficulties. This type of therapy is helpful in treating of variety of problems such as: * Depression * Anxiety * Grief * Substance abuse * Stress and coping difficulties * Eating problems * Difficulties with problem solving and decision making * Problematic Anger * Sleep problems * Sexual problems * Difficulty adjusting to changes in your life circumstances * Difficulties in relationship with other people in your life
Therapy sessions usually last for 50 minutes and typically take place once a week. Often, during the first few sessions, you and your therapist will spend time identifying and exploring those areas in which you are experiencing difficulty. This process usually lasts two to three sessions, after which, you and your therapist will often prioritize those problems to be focused on in therapy and discuss how treatment will be approached. In this way our counseling services are tailored to meet your specific needs.
Older Adults - We provide evaluation and treatment to older adults and their families for a wide range of problems, such as depression, anxiety, memory loss, sleep problems, relationship problems and difficulty adjusting to stressful situations like declining health or loss of a loved one. We also provide services to help individuals cope with the stressors of caring for an older adult.
Group Therapy - Group counseling, like individual counseling, is intended to help people who would like to improve their ability to cope with difficulties and problems in their lives. While in individual therapy you meet with only your therapist, in group counseling you meet with a group of people and one or two therapists. Group counseling focuses on interpersonal interactions, so relationship problems are addressed well in groups. The aim of group counseling is to help with solving emotional difficulties and to encourage the personal development of the participants in the group. The therapist(s) chooses as candidates for the group people who can benefit from this kind of counseling and those who may be most helpful to other members in the group.
Groups usually consist of six to ten participants and two therapist facilitators. Sessions are weekly and ongoing and meet for 1 1/2 hours. The duration of each group member's participation varies according to need and desire and typically lasts from a few months to more than a year.
Fees and Payment
We currently accept Medicare, Medicaid and TriCare insurance for our adult, child and family therapy services.
All of our services are also available on a sliding scale fee. Our fees range from $16 per hour to $125 per hour, depending upon your household income and the number of people living in your home. All fees are due at the time of service. You will be asked to provide verification of your income via your most recent tax return.
This is a non profit agency.
Services Offered To: Adults Teens Children
Payment: Sliding Scale
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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.