Our clinicians recognize the importance of the therapeutic relationship by providing a safe place for our clients to open up, to explore new options, to remember their path, to question, to practice new behaviors and ways of communication, to grow, and to heal.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) Cognitive therapy teaches you how certain thinking patterns are causing your symptoms — by giving you a distorted picture of what's going on in your life. Behavior therapy helps you weaken the connections between troublesome situations and your habitual reactions to them. Together they provide you with very powerful tools for stopping your symptoms and getting your life on a more satisfying track.

Brief Solution Focused Therapy is goal oriented therapy that provides the client with skills applying the best response to difficult problems.

Play therapy is the most appropriate method of treatment for children who are having difficulties coping with life situations. Play therapy allows children to express themselves in the way in which they are most comfortable.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is used in resolving disturbing emotional material caused by traumatic or disturbing events helping people naturally move towards greater health and integration.

EMDR frees people from blocks of their past so they may attain their best potential.

The aim of Family Systems Therapy is for family members to understand and accept their individual responsibility in the emotional functioning of the family unit. By learning to recognize emotional relationship patterns individual family members grow to improve their relationship skills.

SERVICES OFFERED AT SMCS  

SMCS offers individual, couples, child and adolescent, family and group therapy in Frederick County.

Depression Group

Cognitive behavioral treatment for building skills to combat and manage depression.

For persons suffering from depressive symptoms.

Healthy Living Group

Acquiring skills leading to Mental Wellness for overall healthy living

Anger Management Group

Psychoeducation group teaching skills for effective anger management

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