Strong social skills support healthy relationships, self-esteem, and success at school, work, and home. We offer supportive counseling to navigate social challenges, improve communication, and build meaningful connections across ages and stages.
Are Social Challenges Getting in the Way?
Counseling may help if you or your child:
- Have difficulty making or keeping friends
- Feel anxious or awkward in social settings
- Struggle with communication, eye contact, or social cues
- Experience bullying, isolation, or peer conflict
- Want to build confidence and self-advocacy skills
Our Approach
We tailor evidence-based interventions to age, development, and goals — from friendship skills to group participation. Your care may include the methods listed below.
Types of Therapy
- Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)
- Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Adlerian Therapy
- Art Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Christian Counseling
- Coaching
- Cognitive Behavior (CBT)
- Compassion Focused
- Creative & Expressive Art
- Culturally Sensitive
- Dance Movement Therapy
- Emotionally Focused
- Existential
- Experiential
- Expressive Arts
- Family Systems
- Family Therapy
- Gestalt
- Gottman Method Couples Therapy
- Humanistic Therapy
- Integrative Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Multicultural Therapy
- Music Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Parent-Child Interaction (PCIT)
- Person-Centered Therapy
- Play Therapy
- Positive Psychology
- Psychoanalytic Therapy
- Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT)
- Rational Emotive Behavior (REBT)
- Reality Therapy
- Relational Therapy
- Sand Play Therapy
- Schema Therapy
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Somatic Therapy
- Strength-Based Therapy
- Structural Family Therapy
- Transpersonal Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Whether the goal is to foster friendships or feel more confident in groups, we’re here to help.
Connection Can Grow
With practice and support, social situations can feel easier — and relationships more rewarding.
Take the First Step Toward Stronger Connections
Therapists for Social Skills and Peer Relationships
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