New Life Family Counseling Information

We have an excellent, dedicated, and highly-qualified professional mental health therapist, counselor and life coach on staff: Sylvia S. Roan, MSSA, LISW-CP, LCSW, BCBA. Mrs. Roan is a Licensed Mental Health Practitioner (LISW-CP, LCSW), a National Board Certified Behavior Analyst, qualified to conduct counseling and psychotherapy for children, individuals and families. Her approach is strength-based:positive and innovative; she focuses on solutions, not on mistakes. In her years of experience working with children and families, she has helped many children and teen clients to overcome their anger, fears, anxieties, trauma, grief and loss, depression, and other obstacles to happy life. Working with adults, she has successfully helped to restore marriages and relationships; to heal many kinds of hurts; and to find positive new ways of seeing situations and finding solutions. Adjustment Problems: Facing life's challenges whether it is a new addition of a baby, a family member, family move, fear of losing jobs, or stress from work pressure can cause severe anxiety , PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), panic attacks, social anxiety, insomnia, depression , or OCD. Mrs. Roan at New Life Family Counseling is well-equipped to assist you to adjust to the challenging situation whether at home, at work or in the public. Play Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Family System Therapy, Reality Therapy, Rapid Trauma Resolution, and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy are Mrs. Roan's favored approaches, as well as Christian Counseling for those who identify with that path. Mrs. Roan also provides Counseling for Grief and Loss. Parents and Children: Mrs. Roan's substantial training and experience in behavior analysis have made her an effective result-oriented therapist. She has also received both Standard and Comprehensive training in Triple P Positive Parenting Training. She has helped parents to gain insights into what in their child's environment is maintaining the problem behavior, and then to learn effective strategies to decrease that problem behavior. She provides proven tools to lessen the stress caused by daily situations such as bed-time battles, sibling rivalries, lying, stealing, and temper tantrums. She has been successful in helping children of divorced parents not blame themselves for the divorce, and continue to strive for their own success in spite of being in a troubling situation. She has helped children who are bullied as well as those who are prone to bullying. She has worked with children to improve their self-esteem. And her background in the public school education system, home school education and college teaching uniquely qualifies her to deal with school-based issues. Pre-school children: Mrs. Roan, at New Life Family Counseling works with pre-school children and their parents on replacing the following behavior problems into desirable Behaviors: