Joyful Counseling

Feeling stressed, alone, anxious, maybe even depressed? Going through a transition in life? It’s important to have someone you can trust in the ups and downs of life.

Individual sessions are typically 45-60 min weekly and offer an opportunity to explore your story and how you cope with life’s challenges.

We are happy to coordinate with your doctor’s office to help manage medication.

As Marriage and Family Therapists we have extensive training and experience working with couples. In all relationships there is a natural give and take. At times, our sense of love or trust may be challenged and it becomes difficult to communicate, be intimate or forgive. Couple’s may find themselves at a stand still or unable to reconnect.

Whether you have been together for 50years or 50 minutes, couple’s counseling is a great way to restore balance in your relationship and work together to vision your future.

Couple’s sessions are 75 min or 90 min.

We also offer pre-marital counseling to help prepare engaged couples.

Family is important. Normal challenges cause families to have to adapt. Life transitions, divorce, school challenges, sickness, death, are just a few examples of some of the challenges families may face. Family therapy helps families to adjust and maintain relationship even through great challenges.

Family sessions are 75 min or 90 min.

Through live music interventions we can:

Reduce stress and anxiety

Learn emotional intelligence

Create shared meaning

Play as a family

Open space for memories

Create legacy pieces to work through grief and loss

To our clients at Joyful Counseling:

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic we would like to continue to fulfill your therapy needs while also taking precautions to be safe to everyone who enters our building. We will be implementing the following guidelines to best serve you.

• We have invested in a HIPAA compliant video conference that is easy and simple to use. Your therapist will assist you in setting up your appointment. All you need is a private space, and an internet capable device that can do a video conference (such as a smart phone, tablet or computer). Please let your therapist know as soon as possible if you have any questions about what an online session is like. Attached is also an information document on setting up your online appointment to assist you. 
• If you feel sick in any way and cannot attend your virtual appointment, please alert your therapist as soon as possible. We have reduced the within 24 hours cancellation fee to $25 so please call as soon as you can. 317-490-8492. 
• If your clinician does become sick we will notify you as soon as possible and if need be, we will find you an appropriate referral to see another therapist as soon as we can. If you feel that you need immediate care please be honest about this so that we know to assist you with possible options.

Please also be self aware and pay attention to the feelings that arise for you as we all go through this experience together. If you are a person prone to anger, anxiety, control or avoidance behaviors, please recognize that other people around you pay attention to this and feed off of it, especially children. There is a lot of very intimidating and scary conversations that are present at the moment, and children need to know that adults are in charge and will take care of them as best as possible. Yelling at your television about how frustrated you are, or over buying toilet paper are examples of not being self aware to your emotions. Please utilize the simple mindful skill of STOP, THINK, ACT:

STOP - recognize the behavior and how it is impacting others so that you can slow it down

THINK - Acknowledge what is the emotion you are feeling and why

ACT - What is one small thing I can do instead in this moment

These little precautions can go a long way. We feel that now is a very important opportunity for us to provide you with the best therapy services possible but there will be a lot of unexpected situations that will arise. We thank you for your patience and determination in these coming weeks as we all go through this together.

Sincerely,

Kim and Mike O’Connell

Joyful Counseling