Clinical Mental and Behavioral Health Counseling

SkiWise Health & Wellness Services offers a place where your voice will be heard. A compassionate and confidential atmosphere to discuss personal concerns.  

SkiWise specializes in therapeutic assistance to anyone, from all backgrounds, ages, and walks of life (families, individuals, children and teens) who are encountering adjustment problems or experiencing psychological emotional distress, such as loss, grief, aggression, delinquency and truency, trauma exposed or affected, sexual trauma and crisis, depression, anxiety and PTSD.

Adverse Children experiences are considered in the assessment phase thereby utilizing genogram and psychosocial community eco map to determine best course of action for integrative care.

Through counseling and strategizing sessions, people can make differences in their own lives. By assisting people in resolving their own conflicts while teaching them new and valuable approach to conflict resolution, problem solving, and better communication they learn to support themselves through very challenging transitions and conflicts in their lives.

SkiWise clinicians utilize an Integrated approach to Treatment of children and families. SkiWise uses a holistic and flexible therapy approach to meet the needs of the client including:

• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
• Trauma Informed Treatment
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (Ind & Group)
• Mindfulness CBT
• ERT Illness Management Recovery
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy
• Person Centered/Strength Based Treatment
• Solution Focused Brief Intervention
• Integrated and Internal Family Systems
• Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing.

SkiWise Behavioral Health offers:

• Individual, Group & Family Sessions
• Home Based, Community Based and In Office Sessions
• Parent Child Education
• Therapeutic Skill building groups
• Capacity building workshops
• Case Management Services

By helping clients create a glimpse of the future they want, overcome current barriers and learn new skills, SkiWise strives to help persons make positive changes to create a fulfilling and satisfying life. 

 Emphasis will be placed on:

• Mindfulness • Become aware of your thoughts and emotions. Observe yourself without judgment.
• Acceptance of situations • Focus in ACT-D is to help client live more closely to your values. It also helps you to be more accepting of yourself.
• Change oriented strategies • Goal designation • Planning and Implementing Change-Oriented Strategies driven by client Emotion Regulation • Manage emotions. Change unproductive emotions. Create positive emotions.
• Distress Tolerance • Deal with difficult situations. Cope with pain. Become confident and resilient. Interpersonal Effectiveness • Ask for what you want. Say no. Manage conflict. Create relationships  

Revenue to perform clinical services is derived from multiple sources as customary via private practice. However, SkiWise is paneled with all the major insurance companies, Missouri Medicaid, MoHealthnet and fee for treatment private pay.

The goal is to create access for treatment, please don't let inability to pay be a barrier.

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