Psychotherapy and Counseling Services


Psychotherapy and Counseling: Are you seeking help in working through issues of emotional distress, mental health, loss/grief or life transitions? Our focus is to encourage your healing and recovery by challenging, supporting, and guiding you to reach your fulfillment of wholeness, identity, dignity and sense of self.

HopeAllianz Inc offers an array of professional services for individuals, couples, and families Your sessions are individualizd to meet your needs ... inspiring and empowering you to create an authentic meaningful life ~ with knowledge and wisdom ~ while promoting mental, physical and spiritual health.

• Mindfulness and Stress Management: anxiety, relaxation, letting go, acceptance, balance

• Emotional Health: depression, anxiety, grief/loss, anger, assertiveness

• Physical Health: sleep, self-care, weight issues, exercise, chronic pain

• Relational Health: communication, conflict, parenting, people skills

• Spiritual Health: awareness, nonudgmental, meaning and purpose
  
  

Couples Counseling: Do you want to enrich your relationship through learning to understand and resolve one another's basic needs e.g., affection, sexual fulfillment, conversation, recreational, companionship, honesty and openness, physical attractiveness, financial support, domestic support, family commitment, admiration, and respect. You and your partner bring your own history into the relationship including your ideas, values, perceptions and expectations. Conflict occurs when differences occur between you and your partner creating distress, tension, sadness, worry, fear and other physical and/or mental health issues . Couples Counseling is available in-person if you live within the Minneapolis/Saint Paul area of Minnesota. Personalized workshops are also available for your organization. Read more about Couples Personalized Assessments ... Couples Counseling utilizes Prepare/Enrich online relationship assessment which covers the following.

• Strength & Growth Areas; Relationship Dynamics; Communication

• Personal Stress Profile

• Comflict Resolution; Relationship Dynamics

• Financial Management

• Sex and Affection; Relationship Roles; Leisure Activities

• Marriage Expectations; Children & Parenting, Spiritual Beliefs

• Couple Map; Family Map

• Personality SCOPE; Achieving Your Goals ... Together

Family Consultation---Helping Families Cope with Mental Illness: Do you have a family member experiencing mental illness and seeking support, education, and lifeskills for self-care and coping with your family members' mental illness. Our focus is to address issues and concerns of all family members---parents, siblings, spouses, offspring. Family Consultation encourages your healing and recovery by challenging, supporting, and guiding your family to identify your roles as it relates to your family members' mental illness and learn lifeskills to regain your sense of wholeness as an individual and as a family. Read more about Families' Life Experiences with Mental Illness.

OnLine Counseling: Are you looking for a guide who will help you to work though obstacles and challenges? OnLine Counseling provides you with encouragement and support ... tools and lifeskills to help you when you get stuck ... pushing you forward to take action with (not in spite of) your hesitations, uncertainty and fears. If you are currently a client of HopeAllianz Inc, then OnLine Counseling is available to you in adjunct to your in-person individual or group sessions to clarify issues that you are currently working on, as a check-in between sessions or during times of crisis.

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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ~Harriet Beecher Stower (American Novelist and Abolitionist she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852, which attacked the cruelty of slavery.)