Services – Emotionally Connected

Our Services

We offer support to individuals and families seeking guidance in building healthier relationships and managing emotional challenges. Our approach focuses on fostering personal growth, improving connections, and addressing a range of developmental and mental health concerns.

In a warm and supportive environment, Dr. Bess offers personalized therapy tailored to your individual needs. Her practice addresses a wide range of emotional concerns, from relationship challenges to specialized support, empowering you to achieve personal growth and lasting well- being. Dr. Bess offers mental health counseling services for children, adolescents, adults, families, and couples, grounded in the following principles:

Attachment-focused therapy

It provides support for individuals navigating relationship challenges, including those who experience anxiety or avoidance in relationships, trauma, codependence, people-pleasing tendencies, difficulty regulating emotions, fears of abandonment, low self-esteem, attraction to unhealthy relationships, anxiety and depression, panic attacks, and feelings of emptiness and loneliness.

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Emotionally Focused Therapy

(EFT) for couples and Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) for families is a type of psychotherapy that emphasizes the role of emotions and dynamics in our relationships and overall well-being. It's based on attachment theory, which suggests that our early experiences with caregiver’s shape how we connect and react with others throughout our lives.

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Neurodivergent affirmative care

It is a strengths-based, person-centered approach that recognizes the inherent value of neurodivergent individuals. Dr. Bess moves away from deficit-based models and focuses on empowering individuals to thrive authentically as themselves. She understands that each neurodivergent person is unique, with their own specific needs, preferences, and goals. Her support is tailored to the individual, celebrating their talents and fostering self-advocacy.

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Reflective parenting

Offers a pathway to deeper connection and understanding with your child. It encourages self-awareness, helping you explore your own thoughts, feelings, and experiences to better understand your child's behaviors and needs. Moving beyond reactive parenting, this approach empowers you to respond with intention and thoughtfulness, fostering healthier parenting skills, self-regulatory skills for your child, reducing family discord and frustration, and establishing loving, supportive boundaries.

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Confidentiality is essential to the therapeutic relationship. Both legal and ethical guidelines protect the privacy of all communication between a client and their psychotherapist. No information will be disclosed without your informed written consent, except in the limited circumstances outlined by law. These legally mandated exceptions are to keep you and others safe. They exceptions include suspected child abuse or dependent adult/elder abuse, and credible threats of serious bodily harm to self or others.