Re-unification Counseling

Child and Adolescent Developmental research has solidly concluded the importance of both parental figures in the healthy and successful growth and development of children. Gateways works with private families or by court appointment to facilitate safe supportive and healthy re-unification counseling services and re-unification and custody oversight.

Countless studies have proven when the mind is engaged in physical activities the subconscious mind becomes more easily accessible. Gateways applies this method to all age levels. Gateways treats clients ages 3 years and older and there is a level of physical play or engagement possible at any age.

 DBT tries to identify and change negative thinking patterns and pushes for positive behavioral changes.

* DBT Skills training is made up of four modules: core mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. They are designed to specifically assist individuals in better managing behaviors, emotions and thoughts. 

 Trauma Informed Care is an organizational structure and treatment framework that involves understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of all types of trauma. 

*Trauma occurs as a result of emotionally harmful experiences. Trauma has no boundaries with regard to age, gender, race, etc.  Unaddressed trauma significantly increases the risk of mental and substance use disorders and chronic physical diseases. 

  EMDR is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. 

 *Treatment includes a hand motion technique used by the therapist to guide the client’s eye movements from side to side, similar to watching a pendulum swing​.

  A treatment approach which uses where you look to help you heal using tools to assist by identifying, processing, and releasing stored negative or traumatic experiences from the brain to help affected individuals heal from within.