Therapy

Thank you for considering our counseling services.  It is our practice to build a supportive therapeutic relationship with each individual and work together with our clients according to their needs and desires. We view our work as a partnership-your wisdom and our professional experience coming together for healing and growth. Together, we can make the progress your looking for.

Services  are available for children, adolescents, couples, and adults. Although  we work with a diversity of clients around many issues, we specialize in the following areas. 
  • Feeling sad or depressed much of the time  (Take the Depression Test and find your score)
  • Transitions (unemployment, new job, divorce, new country, etc.)
  • Feeling stressed or anxious much of the time    (Take the Happiness Test and find your score)
  • Relationship difficulties (relationship beginnings & endings, difficulty letting go, fear of intimacy, control issues)
  • Low Self Esteem  (Take the Sorensen Self-Esteem Test and find your score)
  • Cultural adjustment or Homesickness
  • Anger Management
  • Grief and loss
  • Parenting
  • Aging
  • Avoiding social situations/ Feeling lonely much of the time
  • Feeling tension & pressure much of the time
  • Cross-Cultural Relationships

In session we will spend time discussing your concerns, identifying what you would like to begin work on, and devising strategies for you to begin implementing outside of session. Along the way, we will provide education and insights so that you may learn about your particular issue more fully and gain clearer perspective on your behaviors. You will be in charge of deciding how far you'd like to go into a particular issue. We may challenge you (with compassion), but ultimately therapy is a tool that you will use as much or little as you feel ready for.  Our sessions are offered in a warm and peaceful environment.

Therapists are trained in cross-cultural issues. Counseling is available in a variety of languages including:
  • Japanese  
  • English
  • Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, and Taiwanese)
  • Bosian

Online Counseling

Online counseling is therapy done via the internet. The difference between online therapy and standard therapy is the lack of face-to-face contact. For some, online counseling is more convenient for various reasons: a schedule that doesn’t allow for appointments during standard business hours, issues and problems that prevent one from leaving the house (like phobias and fears), living in rural areas or areas where access to services is limited, being homebound due to health reasons, being a parent who cannot leave the house, being ashamed or embarrassed to discuss issues face-to-face.

There are limits to this form of counseling. Some prefer in-person contact and may see online or phone services as impersonal and difficult to adjust to. These modes of therapy are not ideal for those who are acutely suicidal or experiencing an emergency. If you are in crisis, please call 911 for help or go to your nearest crisis center or emergency room.

5 Steps to getting started in Online Counseling:
  1. Email us at [email protected] to schedule a time to meet  (We are located in Missouri, USA- Central Time Zone (CDT))
  2. Add us on Skype (Our skype address is Multicultural.Counseling) and have a headset available so I can hear you when you talk. If you don't have Skype software, you can Download Skype here. To see a video on how to install skype click here.
  3. Complete your paperwork (here) and mail (225 South Meramec, Suite 203, Clayton, MO 63105) fax  (314-261-5029) or scan and email back to us prior to our first session.
  4. Make online payment via Paypal at least 24 hours in advance of our session. An invoice will be sent to your e-mail address. $80 payment link for 55 minute session.
     5. Meet your counselor online at the time of our schedule appointment. Open the Skype software and look for Multicultural Counseling to pop online.  Once the time is right, your counselor will be right with you!