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At the Temenos Center we specialize in a wide variety of issues. Please review our list below to see how we can help you with these common concerns.

Alcohol & Drug Addictions

Are you struggling with staying sober?
Are family and friends worried about your drinking?
Is your drug use getting out of control?
Have you been using a prescription drug more than prescribed, and wondering if you will be able to stop?
Do you want help, but don’t want to talk about it in a group?
Has a chronic pain problem led to a problem with prescription drug use?

In an atmosphere of safety, privacy, and confidentiality, we provide a range of services for alcohol and drug problems. We can help you to get sober and stay that way, with individual recovery oriented therapy, relapse prevention counseling, couples therapy for couples with a recovering partner, and other specialized services for people in recovery.

Our approach is non-confrontational, gentle, compassionate, and supportive. Some of our therapists, besides being fully licensed in their respective professions, also have specialty certification in alcohol and drug treatment, such as the Certification in Treatment of Substance Use Disorders from the APA College of Professional Psychology.

Anxiety & Depression

Do you worry too much?
Does fear of a panic attack keep you from going out?
Do you have trouble with sleep, loss of appetite, or crying for no reason?
Do you think you may have a Seasonal Affective Disorder because your mood and energy level go way down in the fall and winter?
Do you have shortness of breath, chest pains, dizziness, headaches, muscle tension, jangled nerves, or other anxiety symptoms?
Has normal sadness lasted too long after a triggering incident, and become depression?

Anxiety and depression can make even ordinary days feel heavy, and it’s easy to believe you should be able to handle it on your own. You don’t have to. Psychotherapy with a skilled, caring therapist offers real, lasting relief — research consistently shows it works as well as medication, often with results that last well beyond treatment.

Our therapists take the time to understand what’s happening in your life right now, since anxiety and depression are often tangled up with relationships, work, or other stressors that deserve attention too. Alongside talk therapy, we offer approaches like meditation and breathing techniques for anxiety, and light-exposure treatment for seasonal mood changes — whatever fits what you’re going through. You don’t have to keep pushing through this alone. We’re here to help you feel like yourself again.

Bereavement & Loss

Have you lost a close friend, a parent, or a child?
Have you lost a husband or wife, a job, or a family business?
Have you lost a vital part of your health, a home, or a favored pet?
Are physical changes due to aging or illness getting you down?

One of the most difficult things in life is losing someone or something you love. Many emotions arise at such a time, including sadness, anger, loneliness, and fear — and there’s no right way to feel, or right timeline to feel it on.

Often, your friends and family are unable to be as present to you as you would like, possibly because they’re experiencing the loss too, and there may be things you don’t want to discuss with them. We’re here to help you heal at your own pace, and to support you as you find your way back to your life.

Eating Disorders

Do you find yourself eating past fullness, only to feel wracked with guilt afterward?
Do you limit your calorie intake as a way to control your weight?
Do you purge after eating, or use exercise to “burn off” the food you just ate?
Do you or a loved one struggle with body image or a fear of weight gain?
Has your relationship with food started to interfere with daily life?
Do you find yourself thinking about food, weight, or your body for much of the day?

These, and other symptoms, can be a sign that food has become a way of coping with something deeper — and you don’t have to untangle it alone. Our therapists have decades of experience helping people find their way back to a peaceful, normal relationship with food, while also gently working through what’s underneath it, so the changes actually last.

We also have a nutritionist on staff who understands both eating disorders and sports nutrition, and can help you find a healthy balance that feels sustainable, not restrictive.

Family Issues

Is your family struggling to find balance after a change in one member’s behavior?
Is a child or adolescent in your family symptomatic in some way — struggling with an eating disorder, substance abuse, or school or behavioral problems?
Do you feel like your family isn’t communicating about what’s really going on?
Do the same conflicts keep resurfacing, no matter how many times you’ve tried to resolve them?

Some family therapists have likened a family to a mobile: when one part moves, the other parts move in response, and when one member changes, other family members change too. The goal of family therapy is to improve the balance and stability of the family system, while the role of the therapist is to attend to each part of the structure. A family’s resilience and support has a powerful ability to heal each member from pain and adversity.

When a family member is symptomatic, they are often expressing through destructive actions something they cannot put into words — the family therapist helps the family “de-code” that message and use it for the growth and development of the whole family.

Gender and Sexuality

Are you wondering about your own sexual orientation?
Are you worried about how your family and friends will respond to you now?
Do you struggle with other people’s homophobia? Or with your own?
Do you have questions about gender identity?
Are you having difficulty finding a community or a partner?
Are you planning to raise children and worried about your children being in a minority?
Are you the parent of someone who is gay, lesbian, or questioning their gender identity?
As a parent, are you struggling with shame about your own homophobia, or simply worried about how your child will fare in our culture?

Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals, couples, and families face unique challenges in our culture, and it can be hard to know who you can talk to openly about them. At Temenos, we want you to know that you don’t have to carry these questions alone.

We offer a safe, accepting space to explore what you’re feeling — whatever that is — without judgment, at your own pace, through individual, couples, or family therapy. Whether you’re sorting through your own identity, navigating a relationship, or supporting someone you love, we’re here to help you feel less alone in it.

Life Transitions

Have you lost a loved one through separation, divorce, or death?
Are you adjusting to life after college, a new marriage, retirement, or a move to a new home?
Is your family changing size — through the birth of a child, or children leaving home?
Are you facing physical or status changes that come with midlife or older age?
Are you coping with chronic illness, disability, or a major lifestyle change?
Are you finding it hard to picture what comes next?

Change can be hard, even when it’s change that we’ve chosen. It’s normal to feel anxious, tense, grief-stricken, or just unsteady during a transition. What helps most is support, a chance to protect your sense of self, and a caring, safe place to talk about how life feels for you right now — at your own pace, even when others encourage you to “move on.”

Our Temenos therapists can help you work through the thoughts and feelings that come with change, understand what might be holding you back, and turn that struggle into new momentum, through individual, couples, or family therapy.

Mid-life Issues

Are you coping with aging family members or an “empty nest”?
Are you experiencing hormonal or other physical changes, or shifts in how you feel about your body and sexuality?
Are long-term relationship difficulties coming into focus for you?
Are you grieving or struggling to accept a divorce, a loss, or regrets about career or family decisions?
Are you ready to finally address longstanding issues with drug or alcohol use, depression, or anxiety?
Are you questioning what you want the next chapter of your life to look like?

Midlife can be a time of tremendous transition, growth, and complexity. Some experience a solidification of identity and meaning, while others experience midlife as a “last chance” to explore roads not taken or seek new ways to express themselves creatively. Whatever the issue, midlife is often a time of emotional tumult, and psychotherapy can provide valuable support and insight.

Older Adult Issues

Are you dealing with chronic or life-threatening illness, chronic pain, or fear of disability?
Are loneliness or grief a bigger part of your life than they used to be?
Are you facing decisions about housing and care?
Could you or a loved one be struggling with addiction to alcohol or prescription drugs?

In addition to life issues that can occur at any age — relationship problems, sleeplessness, anxiety, depression, and chronic stress — some challenges are more common as we age. Our sense of self can face radical shifts as our bodies age, our sense of purpose is forced to be reimagined, and the support around us changes, often through loss. A widespread but often hidden problem is addiction, since older bodies process substances differently and accidental addiction can result.

At Temenos we understand that for many older adults, seeking help is a particularly big step. We are here to understand what life is like for you and help you move at your own pace toward your preferred solutions, knowing that it is never too late to heal emotions and relationships.

Relationship Issues

Are you and your partner struggling to feel or stay connected?
Do money issues leave you feeling angry or scared?
Are you trying to cope with an affair?
Are you looking for ways to improve communication and increase intimacy?
Are you having sexual problems as a couple?
Do you and your partner have the same argument over and over, without ever really resolving it?

Every relationship goes through hard stretches — but waiting too long to get support can let small issues harden into bigger ones. The earlier you reach out, the better the chances of turning things around.

At Temenos, we help you and your partner communicate in more loving and effective ways, so that solving problems feels like a win for both of you, not just one. We work to stay neutral — never taking sides — while helping you each grow the practical skills that make a relationship feel steady again.

Trauma and Post-Tramatic Stress

Have you experienced trauma — from military combat to an auto accident to sexual, physical, or emotional abuse?
Do you struggle with sleeplessness, irritability, flashbacks, or angry outbursts?
Do you feel nervous, fearful, or find yourself overreacting more than you used to?
Are relationship difficulties or addiction showing up as ways of coping with painful experiences?
Has the world come to feel like a dangerous place since something happened to you?
Do you find yourself avoiding certain people, places, or situations that remind you of what happened?

Psychological trauma doesn’t leave visible marks the way physical injury does — but its effects can be just as real, and just as disruptive to your life. If you’ve been through something painful, whether it was combat, an accident, or abuse, you don’t have to carry it alone or figure out how to move forward by yourself. Not everyone who experiences a trauma develops PTSD, but those who do can struggle for months or years with symptoms that show up right away or emerge later, and it’s common to reach for coping mechanisms like substances along the way.

Psychotherapy can help you begin to make sense of what you have been through and put the trauma behind you. Using a variety of techniques such as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), IFS (Internal Family Systems), Narrative therapy, and Somatic therapy, we work with clients who struggle with PTSD to reduce and gradually eliminate symptoms such as flashbacks, nightmares, or anxiety.

You’re not broken, and the world doesn’t have to keep feeling unsafe. At Temenos, we help people find a realistic sense of safety again and make sense of a hard chapter so that it becomes part of your story instead of something that keeps replaying. With the right support, it’s possible to feel steady enough to take new risks toward happiness.