Our Services
Acumen Counseling Services is proud to offer an array of services to meet the needs and schedules of our clients while continuing to maintain openings for new referrals in a timely manner.
Outpatient Services
Individual Counseling is an opportunity to explore, address, and learn to cope with personal issues and mental health concerns. These concerns are typically thoughts, feelings, and/or behaviors that disrupt people’s lives: socially, academically, professionally, or negatively impact the ability to develop and maintain healthy relationships.
Group psychotherapy or group therapy is a form of psychotherapy in which one or more therapists treat a small group of clients together as a group. Depending on the nature of your problem, group therapy can be an ideal choice for addressing your concerns and making positive changes in your life.
Psychoeducation refers to the education offered to individuals with a mental health condition and their families to help empower them and deal with their condition in an optimal way. Essentially, psychoeducation focuses on providing you with information about specific topics in order to give you additional resources or information.
Telehealth Counseling refers to the provision of outpatient mental health counseling via secured telehealth platform. Acumen Counseling Services utilized Doxy, a HITECH/HIPAA compliant telehealth platform that works through an internet browser (no downloading needed). Our internet address for telehealth is: acumencs.doxy.me
Adult Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is a cognitive behavioral treatment that was originally developed to treat chronically suicidal individuals diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and is now recognized as the gold standard psychological treatment for this population. In addition, research has shown that it is effective in reducing suicidal behaviors, non-suicidal self injury, psychiatric hospitalization, and treating a wide range of other disorders, such as: substance dependency, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
DBT skills focus on four areas: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotional Regulations, and Interpersonal Effectiveness.
Adult DBT programming includes:
- Weekly skills training
- Weekly individual DBT therapy
- Telephone coaching as needed
- Weekly therapist consultation meetings