Matters of mind, body, and spirit.
Are you or a loved one struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, substance misuse, or other behavioral, relational, or spiritual issues? Are you a couple looking for help? If so, we hope you’ll reach out. With offices in Manchester and Dorset, VT, Jackson Peak Counseling provides integrated mental health counseling services to persons, couples, and families seeking to re-establish or improve daily functioning. Jackson Peak is a solo practice, founded by licensed clinician Steve Longley. Sessions are offered in person or virtually. To schedule an initial consultation, click the ‘Request Appointment’ link below. Initial consultations are free of charge.
Areas of Practice
individual CLINICAL therapy
In individual therapy, clients and their therapists work together to overcome obstacles and increase positive feelings of clarity and well-being. Persons participating in individual therapy learn skills for managing life situations, decision-making, and goal-setting. Individual sessions typically are scheduled for fifty minutes on Monday or Friday mornings, depending on JPC therapist availability. Sessions take place in person or via ZOOM
EMDR
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a therapy that helps people heal from the symptoms and emotional distress resulting from disturbing life experiences. Numerous studies support that EMDR can be more effective and efficacious than traditional trauma therapies. Using EMDR, the brain’s adaptive processing system is ‘unstuck, ‘activating natural emotional healing. EMDR sessions are typically scheduled in 1.5-time blocks.
spiritually integrated therapy
Spiritually Integrated Therapy utilizes resources from a variety of traditions to help promote greater resilience and well-being (Ano, G.A. 2005). Clients are encouraged to draw from their experiential, religious, and spiritual perspectives to create and sustain meaning and intention. All clients are provided a safe space to explore their personal beliefs without judgment. Clients may choose to explore their spirituality via Scripture, music, art, poetry, nature, prayer, meditation, mindfulness, and more.
HYPNOTHERAPY- Weight Loss, Smoking Cessation
Using Hypnotherapy, clients participate in guided hypnosis so that the client’s internal resources can be turned inward to help them make changes or regain control in certain areas of their life. At Jackson Peak, hypnotherapy therapy is conducted in group and individual settings, frequently for anxiety, weight loss, smoking cessation, and other behavioral conditions.
trauma Informed Therapy
Chronic distress from trauma derails the ability to live life resiliently (Grabbe, 2017). Trauma-informed care approach trauma processing from “the bottom up,” utilizing the client’s resources to promote improved emotional regulation and integration. Trauma-informed therapies are particularly well suited for complex developmental trauma or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; van der Kolk, 2014).
FAMILY & MARRIAGE COUNSELING
Family and marriage counseling focuses on relationships, with the objective and helping families and couples develop improved communication and emotional regulation skills. Jackson Peak Counseling utilizes Bowen Family Systems theory as its underlying theoretical model. Family and marriage counseling is shaped to the participant’s specific needs and timing. Pre-marital counseling is available, as is wedding day officiating.
““Life takes you unexpected places, love brings you home.””
Let's Chat.
Use the link below to contact us regarding your inquiry. We are happy to offer a free fifteen-minute consultation so you can decide if therapy and Jackson Peak Counseling are right for you. All initial consultations are online.