Achieving True Life Balance
.. a holistic approach to health and wellness
At Total Health Concepts, LLC, we help clients achieve life balance by encouraging emotional and physical healing.
Our Holistic team- based approach to therapy integrates trauma-informed therapy, nutrition counseling, movement and recovery coaching to address the whole person, their relationships, and living environment.
Therapeutic services
Practice Specialties
Support Services
Total Approach to Health, Healing, and Recovery.
Total Health Concepts was established in 1986 to serve as a Counseling Center with a holistic approach to health, healing, and recovery. Total Health Concepts has grown to incorporate trauma-informed therapy, eating disorders, gender identity, family systems, and movement therapy.
In more than 35 years, we have helped countless individuals of various ages and cultural backgrounds reach their true fulfillment.
Our success is founded upon addressing barriers, underlying issues, and core beliefs to achieve long-term well-being.
THERAPEUTIC SERVICES
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy is useful for many types of situations that cause stress, anger, grief, and conflict. We empower clients to focus on their strengths and learn coping skills to address conflicts, build confidence, resiliency, and self-esteem.
At Total Health Concepts, we provide a comfortable, private, and safe setting. Our therapists will explore many different areas of trauma and healing. Clients develop a therapeutic alliance with their therapist to express thoughts, feelings, and difficult emotions.
To foster growth and progress, we address:
- Boundaries, identity, and self-worth
- Past traumas and present issues affecting life
- Behavior patterns, beliefs, and coping skills
Couples & Relationships
Couples therapy can help at any stage of a relationship regardless of marital status, age, race, faith, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
Our goal is to enhance the couple’s relationship by rebuilding trust, intimacy, and communication.
We explore boundaries, attachment styles, recurring conflicts, feelings of disconnection, infidelity, issues related to sex, and external stressors.
Approaches used in couples work may include:
- Gottman Approach
- EFT (Emotion Focused Therapy)
- Imago Approach
Family Therapy & Parent Support
Life is full of constant challenges that impact the whole family unit. Families can benefit from therapy when they experience any stressful life events including trauma, separation, divorce, remarriage, financial stress, military life challenges, loss and grief, and mental and behavioral health issues.
Family therapy is designed to help with issues that specifically affect families’ mental health and functioning.
Our team helps by improving communication, building trust and resiliency, managing anxiety and conflict, and helping families come together to be united.
Our family systems approach may include:
- Parent/Family Support Group
- Positive Parenting Strategies
- Attachment Styles and Theory
Therapy Groups
Group therapy helps individuals develop communication and socialization skills and allows them to learn how to express their feelings, issues, and be vulnerable with others.
Group therapy allows individuals to develop self-awareness by listening to others with similar issues and feel belonging, understood, and heard in a supportive and accepting environment.
Group opportunities we offer at Total Health Concepts include:
- Teen Eating Disorders Group
- Young Adult Eating Disorders Group
- DBT Skills Training Group
- Family/Parent Support Group
- Women’s Empowerment Group
- Addiction Recovery & Support Group
- Gender Affirmation Group
- Men’s Support Group
PRACTICE SPECIALTIES
Eating Disorders
Many factors contribute to the development of disordered eating behavior including emotional, nutritional, family system, social pressure, identity, and self-esteem challenges. As a complex disorder, it takes a team approach to treatment to be successful.
Total Health Concepts offers a comprehensive outpatient program to include, individual therapy, family therapy, nutrition therapy and meal support, group therapy, recovery coaching, and care coordination.
Every individual receives a thorough assessment by a trained professional to recognize specific needs and customize a treatment plan unique to each client and their family.
Therapies used in recovery may include the use of:
- Recovery Record app/ Daily Check-ins
- Family/Parent Support Group
- Teen & Young Adult Therapy Groups
Trauma-Informed Therapy
Understanding how past trauma impacts mental, behavioral, emotional, and physical well-being. Trauma-informed counseling addresses how negative events are stored in the body and impact physical and emotional health. We work on the ongoing intergenerational effects on the individual, family, and community.
Our trauma-informed clinicians assist in developing strategies for identifying and coping with thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of a traumatic experience.
Our team helps individuals move towards a more positive sense of self and allows a connection to the world around them.
Tools used in trauma recovery may include the use of:
- EMDR
- IFS/Parts Work
- Mind-Body Therapies
Gender Identity Therapy
Gender-informed therapy can help individuals questioning and/or exploring their gender identity, transitioning, and seeking gender-affirming interventions.
Total Health Concepts strives to provide a safe and supportive space for processing thoughts, feelings, and questions regarding gender identity and sexual orientation. Themes explored in therapy often include trauma, shame, depression, self-harm, sexuality, body image, medical treatment, societal stigma and/or religious trauma.
Our team uses a variety of approaches including:
- Gender-Affirming Therapy
- Creating a Safe Space
- Connection to Supports & Resources
Nutrition Therapy & Recovery Coaching
Eating patterns, body cues, and relationship with food can be complex and impacted by so many factors – such as social media, diet culture, self-esteem, medical diagnoses, and past or current trauma. Nutrition therapy compliments work done in individual therapy to promote holistic healing and restore a peaceful rhythm with food. We use a non-diet, weight inclusive approach that focuses on connections between food and feelings, addressing underlying issues, and learning to manage reactions to triggers that show up around food.
Our experienced team of Registered Dietitians are trained in eating disorders, gastrointestinal issues, sports nutrition, diabetes, and other health concerns.
Our nutrition team utilizes a variety of tools and approaches including:
- Intuitive Eating Principles
- Health At Every Size Philosophy
- Family Based Treatment/Maudsley Method
- Meal Support and Meal Guidelines
- Recovery Record App
SUPPORT SERVICES
Coaching & Skill Building
The goals of Recovery Coaching are to develop and practice life skills, become independent, and live a functional, and fulfilling life.
Our team helps individuals build confidence, self-esteem, and competency. Coping skills are used to reduce anxiety, promote positive self-talk, and foster self-care.
Our Recovery Coaches offer support and training in:
- Social Skills
- DBT Skills
- ADHD Executive Functioning Skills
Mindful Movement & Expressive Therapies
Trauma and emotions are stored in the body. Movement and Expressive Therapies help identify, process and release feelings to reconnect mind and body. Instead of numbing and dissociating from feelings, these practices bring awareness to our physical and emotions needs and create positive coping methods.
Our therapists use various techniques to help release stored emotions and reduce stress and anxiety.
Mind-Body Therapies used may include:
- Yoga & Therapeutic Movement
- Breathing, Meditation & Visualization
- Art & Narrative Therapy
- Reiki and Body Healing
- Trigger Point Therapy
Addiction Recovery & Support
Addictive behaviors often result in relationship difficulties, decline in physical health, and development of further mental health challenges. Addiction therapy can describe a wide range of interventions that treat unhealthy dependence and compulsive behaviors. Once on the road to recovery, Total Health Concepts can guide addiction free living by helping understand negative coping skills and creating healthier alternatives.
We address the underlying trauma of their addiction, work to change one’s social environment, identify relationship patterns, and assist in connecting to a positive support system.
Our team supports their recovery by addressing coping skills, impulse control, and codependency.
We work with addictions from a variety of approaches such as:
- CBT / DBT
- EMDR
- Group Support
Workshops & Retreats
Our interactive presentations take an integrative approach to addressing physical and emotional needs. We address internal barriers to change, external triggers and environmental factors.
We combine therapeutic techniques, mindfulness, and coaching skills with multidisciplinary experience to engage audiences, empower them to act, and encourage self-accountability, and self-fulfillment.
Total Health Concepts offers customized seminars and workshops. Some topics to include, but not limited to:
- Healthy Couples = Healthy Kids
- Empowering Young Adults with Life Skills
- Healing Teens & Restoring Families
- Health At Any Size
- Positive Aging…Living in the Present
Intensive Health & Healing Retreat
