Family Quest Counseling

Family Quest Counseling & Play Therapy Center of Georgia specializes mental health needs across the lifespan: children, adolescents, adults, and parents. Regardless of age, each client and family receives neurologically informed and attachment-focused services that are infused with unconditional positive regard. This provides you and/or your loved ones a warm, non-judgmental experience that is rich in concrete treatment strategies proven effective through research. This mantra guides our work with children, adolescents, and their parents, as well as adults.

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Childhood and adolescence is a time of immense growth, and it lays the foundation for the thoughts and behavior of your child not only today but also as they step into adolescence and, eventually, adulthood. Because of this, parents often seek out services for their child to play, heal, and grow effectively during these formative years. Parents may choose to come to see us for two very different reasons.

 

Some parents value well check-type psychological services just as they would well-check pediatrician visits for their children. This brief service can keep your child’s emotional and neurological construction on pace with age-appropriate development by preventing small obstacles from transitioning into larger, pathological ones. It also will lay the framework for help in the event it is needed in the future. 

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When more severe hindrances are present in your child’s reasoning, emotional life, and/or behaviors, clinical therapy is often needed to repair areas of foundational weakness to better compliment their innate strength. This type of clinical counseling facilitates relief from childhood trauma, anxiety, depression, attachment, resiliency, anger, sensitivity, and atypical neurology (just to name a few!).

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The connection between parents and their children is an invaluable resource: you are the true cornerstone of your child’s foundation. Our goal is to partner with you, so that you can become an expert in your child’s strengths and struggles as well as learn how to facilitate continued healing and growth in their places of need.

 

Taking it a step further, parents are an invaluable resource because they are continually modeling how to respond to stress and success for their children. Children retain these moments and either incorporate the template you provided into their response system or rebel against it. As a neuro-informed child therapy practice, we evaluate the unique synergy that you and your child possess. We encourage parents to take an active role in their child’s healing process by looking inward and onward to their own healing and growth.

 

By now, you probably understand that even though you are an adult, you were once a little one being shaped by your world too. At that time, your environment, feelings, thoughts, and behaviors laid the foundation for who you are today. Simply put, without reflective awareness, your childhood experiences foreshadowed (in large part) how you fundamentally respond to your world today. Working with a therapist who understands where you came from will give you better direction in discerning where you should go from here and how to get there. We offer talk therapy and other creative therapy options for adults to find relief from attachment wounds, trauma, anxiety, depression, interpersonal struggles, and atypical neurology (just to name a few!).

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Whether you schedule an appointment for official services or simply follow our website and social media posts for inspiration, practical parenting solutions, or to learn about yourself, we look forward to partnering with you! Together we will learn, play and talk so that you and your loved ones can heal and grow.