Nobody wants to feel like a guinea pig. It is a nerve-wracking process to meet with a therapist for the first time, don’t add to that stress by having to figure out ‘does this person know how to help me?”
Therapy for Individuals, Couples & Families
What makes therapists at Shurmatz Counseling a good fit for you or someone you love? In a nutshell, training, time, and compassion! The collective years of experience of our clinical team hover near 100, and in that time, we each have selected areas to become the best possible therapists we can be. From couples counseling to depression to trauma, our staff has put in the time and the energy. We all recognize the courage that it takes to take this step, and we strive to make this process as comfortable and helpful as possible. We provide various therapy options for individuals, couples, and families in the Buffalo, NY area.
I believe every person is doing the best they can with what they have. Therapy is a place to move away from shame, feel validated and heard, learn new tools for regulation and communication, build resilience and esteem, and challenge unhealthy patterns.
Individual Therapy
Operating from a strengths-based approach, individual sessions infuse EMDR Therapy with mindfulness, DBT, ACT, addictions counseling and talk therapy. In-person and/or telepsych sessions are available.
Specializing in supporting pre-adolescents, adolescents, and young adults build confidence and esteem by:
- Letting go of shame
- Building resilience
- Stress management and regulation
- Understand healthy relationships (Peer, dating, and sexual relationships. Identifying personal boundaries, how to set and hold healthy boundaries)
- Self-exploration and identity
- Heal from stressful and traumatic experiences ( Physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, Bullying, Slut-shaming)
Family Therapy
- Operating from a Family Systems approach, you cannot treat an individual without addressing the whole family unit.
- Family therapy empowers the parents to become the “experts” at how to support their child(ren).
- Specializing in supporting parents( Understand normal child development, Heal from parenting shame and trauma, Co-regulation and communication strategies, How to set healthy boundaries and expectations, Develop and maintain self-care strategies )
- Supporting families through( Divorce and Blended Families, Loss and Grief, Sibling rivalries)
Wellness Coaching
- Individual Coaching
- Offering adults individual coaching via phone and/or video conferencing
- Supporting through transitions, relationships, careers, etc.
