Neponset Valley Counseling Center

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" Knowing when to seek professional help for problems is a sign of emotional maturity. It reflects both wisdom and the potential for using therapy to improve one's well-being."
-Marsha L. Getter LICSW

Neponset Valley Counseling Center offers an innovative team approach in the assessment and treatment process. In this way, each client benefits from the collective expertise of the NVCC staff. All of our programs are designed to enhance the functioning, effectiveness, and productivity of people.

Individual Therapy: We work individually with adults, adolescents, and children to address painful emotions, and self-defeating behaviors. Individual therapy also provides support in dealing with difficult life transitions and losses, illnesses and learning or physical disabilities. Individual therapy enables the discovery of ones valuable inner resources that can be used to solve personal and relational problems, enable personal growth, and enrich all aspects of life.
Couple and Family Therapy: Couples and family members can benefit from working together to solve their interpersonal and parenting challenges. Family and couple therapy are particularly helpful for those whose lives are impacted by relationship issues, separation and divorce, step-parenting, and the blending of families. In addition, there are times when the growth or recovery of an individual is accelerated when family members or significant others participate in the therapeutic process. Satisfying solutions may be more easily found by working with people who care about and affected by the individual.
Group Therapy: Group therapy significantly deepens and broadens individuals' self- understanding through interaction with others facing similar challenges. Groups enable people to help each other as they are helping themselves, itself a source of emotional growth and satisfaction, and increase interpersonal effectiveness at home, at work, and in other areas of life.
Mediation of the Development of Parenting Plans: Deciding on how they will divide responsibility for and time with their children is one of the most challenging tasks faced by parents who are going through a separation or divorce. As family therapists with mediation training, we work with parents mediating the development of their Parenting Plan, guiding and helping them to make decisions that are both developmentally appropriate for their children and fair to each other.
Parenting Coordination: When parenting communication is highly conflicted and/or ineffective, children often need to be protected from the impact of these issues. A Parenting Coordinator can protect children by assisting parents in the implementation of their Parenting Plan, while fostering safe, healthy, and meaningful parent- child relationships. Parent Coordination is a child-focused alternative dispute resolution process in which a mediation trained mental health professional, with the prior approval of the parents and/or the court, works with parents to facilitate timely dispute resolution while educating them about their children's needs.
Guardian ad Litem (GAL) for Category E Matters: When family members are involved in or subject to court proceedings which include issues of child custody and visitation a GAL may be appointed by the judge. The role of the GAL Evaluator is to gather and report factual data regarding these proceedings to the judge and may, in addition, offer their clinical opinions.

Customized Programs: For community groups, agencies, schools, and other medical and mental health professionals NVCC offers a variety of specialized programs and services, including clinical supervision, to meet the needs of individuals and groups of all kinds.