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.

Counseling Services are available for children, adolescents, 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 Depression Test and find your score)
  • Transitions (unemployment, new job, divorce, new country, etc)
  • Feeling stressed or anxious much of the time    (Take Happiness Test and find your score)
  • Relationship difficulties (relationship beginnings & endings, difficulty letting go, fear of intimacy, control issues)
  • Low Self Esteem  (Take 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

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.

Therapists are trained in cross-cultural issues. Counseling is available in a variety of languages including:
  • Spanish
  • Japanese  
  • English
  • Vietnamese
  • Chinese
  • Bosian

Online Counseling


Online counseling is therapy done via the internet. The difference between online counseling 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 dont have Skype software, you can Download Skype here
  3. Complete your paperwork (here) and 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!


Engish and ESL Services

  •  English Level check and consultation
  •  English Conversation practice: learn how to speak in 1:1 settings
  •  English Pronunciation tutoring/Accent reduction
  •  Vocabulary development
  •  Confidence building
  •  Professional or academic writing tutoring
  •  Language and interview skills for jobs, presentations, journal clubs, residency match interviews
  •  Preparation for exams e.g. Citizenship, TOEFL
  •  Proof-reading: checking, correcting, & editing documents (resumes, cover letters, essays, papers, e-mails, etc.)
  •  Help with special projects


Private 1-to-1 English Tutoring in our office

  • Choose your own hours (1hr=$40), 1.5 hrs=$50, or 2 hrs = $60 for each lesson).
    These are private face-to-face English tutoring in our office. We generally charge an additional $5 if you want us to drive to your home or office for English lessons.
  • Choose your own study pace (once/twice/three times a week or daily)
  • Daytime, evening and weekend sessions available. 
  • Focus on your speaking and listening skills while talking with a native speaker.  We will correct your mistakes and make suggestions on pronunciation, idioms, vocabulary usage, and grammar.
  • Each lesson includes a short review to reinforce learning. I give homework to students if there is a need for it.


Advantages of having a Private Tutor


When you learn from an individual teacher, the lesson is created to meet your own goals. You will tell the teacher what you want to learn, so you won’t waste time learning things that don’t interest you.
Consider the following:
• Problem with school:
   Your class is too big. You don’t have an opportunity to speak.
•  Our solution:
   Our meetings are “English Only”. There is no class to keep up with, all attention is dedicated to ONE student.
•   Problem with school:
   The class doesn’t teach everything you want to learn. You learn things that do not interest you.
•  Our solution:
   You tell the teacher what you want to learn. We will only practice topics that interest you. If you tell your English tutor that you  
   want to improve your pronunciation, your English tutor will focus his lessons on your pronunciation.
•  Problem with school:
   Sometimes you don’t like the teacher.
•  Our solution:
   The first time we meet, there is no cost. If you don’t like the teacher, you can choose to meet with another teacher. You don’t 
   have to continue tutoring and you can stop at any time!
•  Problem with school:
   Sometimes, the teacher is not a native American English speaker.
•  Our solution:
   ALL ESL Instructors are native American English speakers.  They speak standard American English, which means we do not
   have  a local accent.


Online English Lessons


You can study with an English tutor via Skype using your computer. Skype is computer software which lets you talk for free to anyone in the world. All you need is a computer and an internet connection. You do not need to use a camera (optional), but you will need a headset with a microphone so your teacher can hear your voice. To get started with your first lesson complete the following:
  1. Download Skype here; To see a video on how to install skype click here.
  2. Email us at [email protected] to schedule a trial lesson (We are located in St. Louis, Missouri, USA- Central Time Zone (CDT))
  3. Add us on Skype (Our skype address is Multicultural.Counseling) and have a webcam and headset available.
  4. Enjoy your English lesson. Payment is made through Paypal with the invoice sent to your email address. 1hr ($30), 1.5 hrs ($40), or 2 hrs ($50) each session).  Meet your English tutor on Skype at the arranged time and improve your English.
Please visit our FAQ link for answers to frequently asked questions regarding our English tutoring Services. You can also e-mail us at rrash@mcrcstl.org with any questions or to set up a free 30 minute consultation.  You can also e-mail us your number and we will call you.