Joyworks Counseling LLC is committed to bringing restoration and healing to families by delivering professional mental health care services that help create safety, offer hope, and increase joyful connections within relationships. As adults, we want peace of mind, a sense of worth, and the power to make lasting impact on those around us.
As parents, we want our children to be happy, healthy, well-rounded, joyful, and worry-free; feeling at peace with themselves and with others, and confident in themselves and their own abilities and aptitudes.We can provide you with the trusted counsel you need to help reach your family's goals. We provide supportive mental health counseling to children, adolescents, and adults.
Joyworks Counseling stands in support of minority and other marginalized populations in our community while we are facing the trauma caused by acts of social injustice occurring across our nation. We believe that every person deserves to be treated with dignity and we are committed to hearing all voices and concerns regarding inclusion and equal treatment.
As parents, we want our children to be happy, healthy, well-rounded, joyful, and worry-free; feeling at peace with themselves and with others, and confident in themselves and their own abilities and aptitudes.We can provide you with the trusted counsel you need to help reach your family's goals. We provide supportive mental health counseling to children, adolescents, and adults.
Joyworks Counseling stands in support of minority and other marginalized populations in our community while we are facing the trauma caused by acts of social injustice occurring across our nation. We believe that every person deserves to be treated with dignity and we are committed to hearing all voices and concerns regarding inclusion and equal treatment.
Services
Emily is the clinical director/owner of Joyworks Counseling.
She offers over 15 years experience working with families, including nearly 10 years working with children who were victims of severe abuse and neglect.
She is trained in Theraplay, Child Centered Play Therapy, Adlerian Play Therapy, Sandtray Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma Focused-CBT, Adoption Competency, Brainspotting, and Prepare/Enrich.
Emily is also a Certified Circle of Security Parenting Facilitator.
Emily has 10 years experience working with the foster care system, foster families, birth families, and the adoption-kinship network.
She offers over 15 years experience working with families, including nearly 10 years working with children who were victims of severe abuse and neglect.
She is trained in Theraplay, Child Centered Play Therapy, Adlerian Play Therapy, Sandtray Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma Focused-CBT, Adoption Competency, Brainspotting, and Prepare/Enrich.
Emily is also a Certified Circle of Security Parenting Facilitator.
Emily has 10 years experience working with the foster care system, foster families, birth families, and the adoption-kinship network.
Since young people learn most quickly through play, we use play-based approaches to help improve behavior, mood and relationships.
We have invested in extensive post-Masters training that allows us to utilize the best evidence-based approaches and understand Child Development and Child Psychology.
We believe that parents are our "co-therapists" and prefer active parent involvement in treatment whenever possible.
We utilize Child-Centered Play Therapy, Adlerian Play Therapy, Sandtray Therapy, principles based in Theraplay, or Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to connect with children.
We have invested in extensive post-Masters training that allows us to utilize the best evidence-based approaches and understand Child Development and Child Psychology.
We believe that parents are our "co-therapists" and prefer active parent involvement in treatment whenever possible.
We utilize Child-Centered Play Therapy, Adlerian Play Therapy, Sandtray Therapy, principles based in Theraplay, or Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to connect with children.
Play provides a wide variety of benefits for children.
Through play, children build and strengthen socio-emotional and cognitive skills.
Children at play have agency (control over their own actions) and feel socially and emotionally safe.
They express themselves freely, trying out different behaviors or ideas, without fear or anxiety.
Peter Gray (2017) defines play as an activity that (1) is self-chosen and self-directed, (2) is motivated more by means than ends, (3) is guided by mental rules, and (4) includes a strong element of imagination.
Through play, children build and strengthen socio-emotional and cognitive skills.
Children at play have agency (control over their own actions) and feel socially and emotionally safe.
They express themselves freely, trying out different behaviors or ideas, without fear or anxiety.
Peter Gray (2017) defines play as an activity that (1) is self-chosen and self-directed, (2) is motivated more by means than ends, (3) is guided by mental rules, and (4) includes a strong element of imagination.
We've known sandtray therapy is powerful for years (since the 1930s) but have only fairly recently realized WHY it's so powerful.
We can now peek inside the brain with fMRI's and understand how our brain processes information.
Information is processed first with pictures and THEN with words and linguistics are attached to it.
This makes sense if you think about it-- Developmentally, we can process images WAY before we can process words.
I bet if you think about it, this still happens.
Ever seen a picture that affected you from a certain way in your body and mind, but you struggled to put it into words?
We can now peek inside the brain with fMRI's and understand how our brain processes information.
Information is processed first with pictures and THEN with words and linguistics are attached to it.
This makes sense if you think about it-- Developmentally, we can process images WAY before we can process words.
I bet if you think about it, this still happens.
Ever seen a picture that affected you from a certain way in your body and mind, but you struggled to put it into words?
Reviews
Be the first to review Joyworks Counseling.
Write a Review
