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Terri’s practice at Take Charge, Inc. provides a broad range of services that incorporate her extensive education, legal and counseling experience. Counseling/Therapy can be confusing as you try to understand the different types of counseling and how and if it fits your needs.
Individual: One-on-one counseling with Terri. Individuals going through a life crisis or needing counseling for a particular circumstance. Individual counseling can incorporate relationship counseling as well.
Relationship: This can be premarital, marriage, living together, or a dating relationship. Relationship counseling can also incorporate individual counseling with each party.
Family: First marriage families, step-families, blended families. Family counseling can incorporate individual counseling for all parties involved, including the children.
Children: Parents seeking counseling for their children who are having issues at school, behavior changes or self esteem issues. Terri uses the Amen diagnostic questionnaire for ADD and ADHD. Child counseling always includes the parents as part of the counseling process with and/or without the child.
Co-Parenting: Divorced parents raising children in separate households. Co-Parenting counseling is for divorced parents having trouble implementing their parenting plan. Co-parenting counseling can also incorporate step-parents as well.
Divorce: Individual seeking a divorce, currently going through divorce, or recently divorced. Couple can also seek this type of counseling when they have agreed to divorce and want guidance on how to deal with children during the process.
Divorce: Couples in the divorce process who want help in resolving the issues/disputes with the divorce, such as child custody, parenting plan, financial division, property division, etc. This service is in addition to their attorney, not in place of the attorney.
Family: Disputes between family members; adult children and their parents, divorced parents seeking to change the parenting plan or visitation schedule (this is not co-parenting).
Collaborative Law: Couples in the divorce process include Terri in the process as the mediator or neutral coach. Terri is included in all aspects of the divorce process. Terri interacts, not only with each party, but also with all attorneys. Terri facilitates issue resolutions with all parties either in individual sessions or joint sessions with all parties present, including attorneys. She mediates between the four parties for resolution of issues.
Individual Coach: Terri serves as the coach for one party in a divorce. She acts as that parties advocate at all attorney meetings, all meetings with the spouse and their attorney, guiding them through each step of the divorce process.
Neutral Coach: Terri serves as a neutral coach for both parties in a divorce. She advocates for each party in order to reach a mutually acceptable divorce settlement. Coaching incorporates individual sessions, joint sessions, and attorney meetings.