To help one is to help US all
Couples Counseling, Individualized Outpatient Psychotherapy, and Family Therapy
Who We Are
Our Practice
As a small private practice, Communal Change, LLC., offers a one-on-one, individualized experience, where you are not a number. We limit case numbers to achieve that. You can expect person-to-person, Mom-and-Pop style service while still experiencing all the benefits of a proficient medical professional.
Communal Change, LLC. was founded on the idea that strong individuals create a strong, healthy, and resilient society. We intend to help build our community with you, from the ground up, by assisting you in indentifying who your best self is, and helping you achieve that self.
Communal Change, LLC. offers experienced individualized outpatient psychotherapy, treating a number of mental health disorders with evidenced based treatments and traditional talk therapy. We endeavor to provide a modality that fits your situation, providing a wide variety of types of psychotherapy. We strive to provide neutral ground to individuals, families, and couples to assist them in finding their best.
Our Treatment Focus
Our focus is to help individuals, couples, and families heal, manage life’s difficulties to the best of their ability, cope well, become more resilient, be their best selves, explore who they are, and become aware of their inner strengths. We achieve this by providing a neutral safe space to listen to your concerns and customizing a treatment plan from a wide variety of treatment options.
What does care look like?
Care here comes from a whole person approach. It is Biological, Psychological, Social, and (if wanted) Spiritual. This holistic approach is the best practice standard. From that minimum, treatment is built using modalities (i.e. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Adlerian Therapy, and more) that fit your family/life and input, to build a plan co-operatively with you. Depending upon the issue, there might be an emphasis on learning. You can expect some humor during the process, and, depending upon how you learn best, sometimes book work or homework. Expect to do work outside the therapy room in real life on your own, when you feel ready.
What are some common issues people come to counseling for? Who do you see most?
The quick answer is that we treat people who have experienced anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, life transition, family, and marital counseling.
The majority of patients in the USA who utilize mental healthcare in this country come in for issues like Anxiety or Depression. This is very true for both individuals and families. One in two people in the US will have a depressive episode during the course of their life time. This makes taking the individuals and their components into consideration critical for family/couple work. Often family or couple issues are not successfully resolved if these are not worked on. Like most practitioners, we specialize in Anxiety and Depression treatment on an individual, couple, & family level. Like most practitioners individual treatment of anxiety or depression makes up a bulk of our practice.
However, we also specialize in other things. We often see people who haven't hit their goals. Which is not the usual for most centers, but something we deeply enjoy. We see people who have trouble transitioning to adulthood or have difficulty socializing. We teach communication. We genuinely enjoy assisting people to live their best life.
When it come to trauma, we most commonly assist people who've had a major life trauma who have experienced; being raped, as an adult who was molested as a child, people who have been physically assaulted, emotionally abused, have or had cancer, had a medical trauma, or experienced being cheated on. PTSD is a common area of treatment at Communal Change, LLC. as well.
Couples counseling done with us is generally for issues with parenting, communication, medical struggles, and/or infidelity. Family counseling is for parents and teens. Unfortunately we do not do family counseling with very young children as our platform is not set up for it.
Are you a Crisis Center?
While we don't offer a crisis counseling center (which is a 24/7 availability, with drop-in and sometimes hospitalization options), we do see crisis cases if the case is stable enough for outpatient treatment. If you are trying to figure out if you are stable enough, ask yourself if you would be capable of discussing your trauma without needing to be watched for suicidality or feeling the need to drink or use drugs afterward. Ask yourself if you are able to maintain employment. If the answer is no, a crisis center might be the best fit. You can find a list of crisis centers here: https://healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/services-programs/behavioral-health/statewide-crisis-centers
Who do you not see? Boundaries to Care
Like any business we reserve the right to refuse service. What we generally refuse service for is something we are either not sufficeiently set up for or have no experience in. Ethical guidelines require that we not offer services in areas where we have limited experience. We are aware that some companies will skirt around this issue by having clients sign liability waivers so they don't get sued legally. This is not the same thing as ethical practice. These issues include: Borderline Personality Disorder, Autism, Sex Addiction, People who have primary issues with Substance Abuse and aren't working a 12 step program or open to working 12 step program in AA or NA, and finally Sexual Perpetrators.
