Overview of Counseling Services
We as human beings desire to be known, to love and to be loved. Often times, our attempts to give and receive the love we long for becomes tangled in a web of our past mistakes or the mistakes of others, leaving us feeling alone, arguing with our spouse, overwhelmed with anxiety, extreme sadness and hopelessness, and facing life circumstances we feel powerless to overcome. Counseling is a great opportunity to begin the process of handling these paralyzing issues in a safe environment. Seeking out help requires courage and pursuing counseling can be a scary process, so congratulations on taking the first step towards change!
If you desire to go further in receiving help, we would enjoy the opportunity to walk alongside you as you seek direction in your individual, family, or marital life in the pursuit of the love you long to have for yourself, and those you love. As a counseling practice in the Greater Chattanooga Area, we work with individuals, couples, and families to help achieve change while integrating principles of Christian faith as desired. Our hope is for our clients to learn to love through experiencing a deep, lasting change in counseling. Please feel free to contact us today to see how we can be of service to you. We work hard to respond to all inquiries within 24-48 hours, except for weekends.
If you are looking for an individual, family, or marriage counselor, particularly a Christian counselor, or a consultant for your small business, non-profit, or church in the Chattanooga, Cleveland, Lookout Mountain, East Ridge, East Brainerd, Hixson, Red Bank, Ooltewah, Soddy-Daisy, Ringgold or North Georgia area, please feel free to contact us today to see if we can be of service to you. After a brief phone consultation, if we decide to work together, you may setup an initial appointment with your counselor to further discuss your case. We also provide a few minor assessments in each session to ensure our work together is helping and our time is useful to you.
Special Focuses
Individuals: Anger Management, Anxiety, Career Development, Depression, Familial Relationships, Men’s Issues, Self-Care, Stress Management and Coping, Unwanted Sexual Behavior.
Couples: Communication and Conflict Resolution, Family Issues, Emotional and Sexual Intimacy, Premarital Guidance, Sexual Issues, and Affair/Infidelity Recovery.
Families: Boundaries, Communication, Conflict, Life Issues, Parenting.
Children: Emotion Regulation, Pro Social Behavior, Self-Confidence, Identity Development, Parenting Strategies.
What Makes Scout Different?
· Talk directly with your clinician of choice in the intake process
· Appointment availability
· Outcome based approach
· No insurance
· Relationship and systemic focused
· Clinician development
· Multiple clinicians to address issues holistically and in chorus
· Client focused and healing oriented
· Co-therapy available for couples
Residents At Scout
For a clinician to be a licensed by the state, they must complete anywhere from 1000 to 1500 addition hours of supervised clinical work within a two to three year period, in addition to passing one if not two national exams. In many cases, clinicians are either working in highly demanding, stressful settings to obtain these hours as provisionally licensed clinicians. These clinicians may end up being worked severely, poorly developed, and burned out. Others may end up in private practice, but have little oversight or direction to allow them to develop.
Residents at Scout are treated quite differently a variety of ways. Residents are given opportunities to grow in specialties of their interest, a great deal of direct oversight of their work, including one to two hours per week of direct supervision along with video review of their sessions. While these clinicians are not yet fully licensed by the state, at Scout, we can assure you that our clinicians that are currently in the residency program are undergoing a significant amount of training, development, and oversight to provide their clients the best quality of care at an affordable rate and accessible hours.