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Lartey Wellness Group can help you manage your anxiety so that you regain control of your life by helping you:

• Develop a clearer understanding of your anxiety & panic by exploring the nature and experience of your symptoms. We equip you with the skills to learn how to better observe, record, and report panic-related triggers, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

• Work collaboratively with you to develop a custom treatment plan that will identify concrete skills and techniques to address your unique anxiety & panic symptoms.

• Empower you to identify and change the thought patterns that contribute to your anxiety & panic symptoms to help reduce the likelihood and intensity of your panic attacks.

• Provide you with the tools to tolerate uncertainty. Studies have shown that intolerance of uncertainty is a key factor in anxiety, panic and depression. We teach you how to tolerate uncertainty, which will allow you to stop;
  1) avoiding situations,
  2) procrastinating,
  3) constantly seeking reassurance,
  4) delaying taking action, and
  5) excessive checking.

• Increase your ability to help you manage your emotions, so that you do not become easily overwhelmed by them and controlled by your negative reactions to unpleasant feelings and situations.

• Improve your productivity by teaching you healthier more effective ways to cope with your anxiety so that you can confront, not avoid situations or experiences that make you anxious. Avoidance can usually feed the anxiety, whereas our confrontation techniques will help reduce your anxiety.

At the end of the journey with the Lartey Wellness Group clients see significant changes compared to when they first started. We achieve this by helping people in:

• Verbalizing more helpful and positive statements regarding the future and accepting some sadness as a normal variation and feeling.
• Taking part in activities that have a high likelihood for pleasure and mastery.
• Improving on relationships with family and friends by better expressing their emotions and problem solving in healthier ways.
• Establishing a routine pattern of sleeping, eating, solitary and social activities and exercise.
• Making positive statements about themselves and the ability to cope with the stresses of life.

The professionals at the Lartey Wellness Group can provide counseling for children, teens, and young adults that will:

• Help them believe in themselves and build their self esteem to strengthen their armor against the challenges of the world and manage negative pressures. 

• Build their independence by giving them the tools and techniques that will slowly allow them to stand on their own. We equip your child with the skills that will lead to success, and the capabilities that will enable them to solve failures.

• Enhance problem solving skills to develop effective actions to solve their problems and manage their behavior and social life.

• Manage emotions to build positive socials skills in an atmosphere of positive regard that will empower your child to be a secure, loving, resilient individual.

• Facilitate self- learning and the exploration of new concepts by encouraging your child to ask questions upon encountering something new 

• Explore their passion, and find the one that excites your child the most. We will encourage your child to pursue their dreams by becoming fully committed to the endeavor.

• Improve their awareness of social situations to help avoid trouble and teach your child how to get along with others.

Benefits of Marriage & Couples Counseling with the Lartey Wellness Group Include:

• Learn effective communication

  • We help both partners share their thoughts, feelings, opinions, values, needs, frustrations, and joys. We also encourage couples to speak honestly and not hide their true selves, which greatly helps to strengthen their bond!

• Learn how to heal & rebuild from broken promises, lying, cheating, stealing

  • These violations of trust almost always result in relationship problems, and is an obvious reason why a relationship fails. If the basic trust in a love relationship is repeatedly broken, problems accumulate and the motivation to stay together decreases.

  • We help rebuild foundations in relationships to reconcile the lost of love and respect to help couples survive a physical or emotional affair without anger or bitterness.

• Re-balance of power in relationships

  • Couples may be more likely to break up when one partner has more decision-making power than the other. When one person makes all the decisions about activities, friends, financial matters, household matters, and vacations, the relationship isn’t balanced or loving, and quickly becomes unstable.

  • We help both partners equally share the decision-making power to stop the relationship from failing.

• Acceptance of stereotypes in relationships

  • This was once a more common reason why couples break up, but it still exists today! Mistaken gender myths include beliefs such as “Men should earn more money than women” or “Women should stay at home and raise the kids.”

  • We help couples debunk these stereotypes, and create more realistic expectations that lead to more happiness.

• Stop isolation from friends and family

  • New couples may isolate themselves from other people because they’re “in love and want to be together.” A brief period of cocooning is normal for many couples.

  • We help couples communicate the fear and insecurity felted from too much isolation and remind them that it’s far healthier to interact with other people regularly.

• Gain self-knowledge

  • If one or both partners aren’t in tune with their own interests, needs, desires, future plans, goals, values, and preferences, then it’s difficult for them to build a better marriage or healthy love relationship.

  • We help couples explore their self-knowledge by communicating who they are and what they want in a relationship, which can prevent problems.

• Build self-esteem, insecurity, and gain self-confidence

  • Couples break up because one partner feels unworthy of being loved. This insecurity can lead to possessiveness and dependence, which isn’t healthy for either partner in the love relationship.

  • We help couples rebuild their relationship by providing a safe and accepting environment to share and address one’s insecurity and jealousy.

  • We also help challenge and replace a partner’s dysfunctional belief about the relationship.

• Stop excessive jealousy

  • Delusional jealousy can trigger abuse and violence, which can (and should) be why a couple breaks up!

  • We couples discuss the impacts and adverse effects that a partner’s delusional jealousy has on the relationship. We them develop a plan to manage and control the delusional jealousy.

• Stop control behaviors

  • If one partner is trying to control or manipulate the other, the relationship can become weak or destructive.

  • We help stop controlling behaviors including checking up on the partner, name-calling, threatening the partner, requiring the partner to check in all the time, or not allowing any deviations from the schedule.

• Stop unhealthy physical behavior

  • Physical, intimate, and emotional abuse are attempts to gain total control over a partner.

  • We help couples realize that relationships like this should end immediately because they can be extremely unhealthy and detrimental to both partners. We also help couples implement caring behaviors to replace the unhealthy physical behaviors.

At the Lartey Wellness Group, we offer Pro Bono counseling which is a free service available to adults who are unemployed, uninsured, under insured, or unable to afford traditional counseling services. We are able to provide clients with short term counseling free of cost. The sessions will be provided by Master’s Level students, Licensed Profession Counselor Interns, Social Work Interns, or Marriage and Family Therapy Interns supervised by Mr. Franklin Lartey, LCPC.

Pro Bono Services Eligibility Criteria:

• Individuals and Couples

• Uninsured/Under-insured

• Unemployed

• Unable to afford traditional counseling services

• Commitment to Prompt Attendance

• Commitment to fully participate in therapeutic interventions and homework

Individuals/Couples are ineligible if:

• Involved in court or legal issues (probation, parole, deferred adjudication)

• Child and Adult protective services involvement

• Couples in or moving towards divorce proceedings

• Child custody cases •

• Court ordered services

• Struggling with drugs and alcohol as primary issue

• Suffering from chronic mental illness

• Any issue outside of the therapeutic competency of our counseling staff

Please note: All Pro Bono clients are pre-screened for appropriateness. If it is determined that an individual or couple need more intensive services than what our counselors can provide, we can refer them so they can be matched with the appropriate services.

Psychiatric Assessments & Evaluations

‣ A psychiatric assessment and/or evaluation is a diagnostic tool used in psychiatry to diagnose problems with memory, thought processes, and behaviors. Through these assessments, any mental health issues can be identified treated.

Diagnosis & Treatment Planning

‣ Based on your assessment, our psychiatric nurse practitioner will then make a diagnosis and develop a treatment plan designed with your specific needs in mind. 

Medication Management

‣ The goal of our medication management service is to diminish the effects and symptoms that individuals are experiencing as a result of mental illness, substance use disorder, and intellectual disabilities disorder or combinations thereof. 

Reduction in Mental Health Symptoms

‣ Medications and coping strategies can help reduce your biological predisposition (vulnerability) and treat your symptoms of mental illness. Both can be powerful tools in your journey toward recovery.