Toula ZoulasLMHC

Congratulations in making your first step! During our initial session an assessment is completed. By learning some very specific things about your life, including your background, symptoms, relationships, work, health, and goals, your therapist can more accurately determine how to help you and how to start off on the right track. The reason for this is that I consider our first session an “evaluation”, meaning we get a 360 view of your life and your goals. Sometimes folks come in for therapy thinking that a certain area of their lives is “irrelevant” to the problem at hand. Remember therapy is a process that will unfold over time. If you can have patience with the process, and with yourself in the growth, you will see results.

I can treat children, adolescents and young adults who are experiencing behavioral, emotional, social and psychological difficulties. By enabling a young person to feel safe in our therapeutic relationship, I help them to understand, process and manage inner conflict and presenting needs. Cognitive Behavior Therapy techniques can be employed to enable a young person to enact change. Consequently, numerous CBT elements could have application depending on the young person’s goals and capacity to achieve them. CBT is most useful when unhealthy patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors, or a lack of certain skills are interfering with a young person’s progress. In addition to Family Therapy, Play Therapy for young children, Social Skills training and Motivational Interviewing skills.