We’re Here To Support You
At Schroer Counseling and Consulting, we celebrate each person’s unique strengths. Our counseling services create a safe space for kids/teens and adults allike to explore their feelings and experiences. Understanding a youth’s emotions is as crucial as recognizing their learning styles. Our assessments provide valuable insights into their learning preferences, social skills, and emotional well-being. This information helps parents, teachers, and counselors create customized plans to support children's growth in school and life. Through our counseling, children learn coping skills and resilience, helping them face challenges. We also offer consulting services that include training and workshops for everyone involved in a child's education.
With the right support, kids/teens can use their strengths to overcome obstacles and succeed socially and academically.
Counseling Services
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Children learn and express through activity and play which is imperative to their comprehension of the world. In child therapy, I use a combination of art, play, games, role-plays and creative expression in conjunction with dialogue. My goal is to ensure the child feels emotionally safe so as to share and work through the challenges they face. This allows them to process emotions and and build tools to problem solve. I also believe that parents/caregivers play a vital role in the healing of children and feel it is necessary for us all to work together.
When beginning therapy, it is important to understand the client's goals and create a plan that feels comfortable to both the client and therapist. Therefore, a new client/family will have a 1.5 hour initial session to establish this plan and ensure services are a good fit. Ongoing therapy sessions run between 50-60 minutes and typically are weekly or biweekly.
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The teenage years are some of the most trying times for many people. It is a period of individuation and exploration. My work with teens is rooted in a variety of therapeutic approaches, much like that of adults, in order to meet the needs of the client. These approaches include helping teens understand their own perspectives by beginning to identify their values. This is done using CBT, DBT, interpersonal therapy and ACT therapeutic modalities with a strengths-based approach.
When beginning therapy, it is important to understand the client's goals and create a plan that feels comfortable to both the client and therapist. Therefore, a new client/family will have a 1.5 hour initial session to establish this plan and ensure services are a good fit. Ongoing therapy sessions run between 50-60 minutes and typically are weekly or biweekly.
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The style and therapeutic modality used for an adult is individual and dependent upon the challenges one faces. Similar to working with teens, the approach may be unique to you, but the framework is based in evidence-based therapies such as CBT, DBT, ACT and interpersonal therapy.
When beginning therapy, it is important to understand the client's goals and create a plan that feels comfortable to both the client and therapist. Therefore, a new client/family will have a 1.5 hour initial session to establish this plan and ensure services are a good fit. Ongoing therapy sessions run between 50-60 minutes and typically are weekly or biweekly.
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Family therapy is often recommended when the challenges faced are impacting the entire family system or relationships within the family unit. Family therapy looks at the system as a whole rather than pointing the finger at any one individual. It is interactive, supportive, and a safe environment to work through family conflicts while processing and problem-solving effectively.
When beginning therapy, it is important to understand the client's goals and create a plan that feels comfortable to both the client and therapist. Therefore, a new client/family will have a 1.5 hour initial session to establish this plan and ensure services are a good fit. Ongoing therapy sessions run between 50-60 minutes and typically are weekly or biweekly.
Cognitive Assessments
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A cognitive assessment (or IQ test) may be utilized to determine eligibility for school admission or to a specific school program (such as Gifted and Talented). Additionally, a cognitive assessment provides you with information pertaining to your child's strengths and needs in the areas of problem solving ability (both verbal and nonverbal), working memory skills, and processing speed skills.
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The cost is $800 for the complete assessment for one child. If you decide to test more than one child in your family, the cost is $750/child. Additionally, if you'd like to have the clinician join an IEP, 504 or school meeting to explain and go over the assessment, there is an additional fee of $300 per child. This is optional, however, many families find this helpful for educational planning. We do not take insurance, however, if you'd like to use a FSA/HSA card, you are welcome to do so.
Please know once you schedule, you are expected to attend the assessment. If you need to cancel the assessment, we ask for 48 hour notice. Notice given less than 48 hours ahead of time will still be charged.
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A cognitive assessment (or IQ test) may be utilized to determine eligibility for school admission or to a specific school program (such as Gifted and Talented). Additionally, a cognitive assessment provides you with information pertaining to your child's strengths and needs in the areas of problem solving ability (both verbal and nonverbal), working memory skills, and processing speed skills.
Consulting
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School consultations are available on an individual basis and are determined after either the initial session or ongoing therapy for a client. These can be requested either by families or school districts directly. This service is available to support school personnel in meeting the needs of the client with effective interventions and/or offering strategies to increase school success. This includes working with school personnel for IEP or RTI meetings as well as providing expertise for classroom teachers.
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Understanding the SE health of a school and creating a strategic plan is critical to the success of a building or business. A school health assessment provides a roadmap for how schools and look ahead to implement best practices using data and information acquired from a school health survey. Our team provides the pre/post discussions, conducts the survey, and evaluates the road ahead for supporting the social emotional parts of your building and families with strategic recommendations.
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Behavior consultations are aimed at targeted behaviors that are usually happening within the home or a specific environment and are challenging to manage. The goal is to develop a positive behavior plan and adaptive strategies that support the child or teen.
Parent/Caregiver Consultations
Parent/caregiver consultations can be done a variety of ways depending on the need of the individual and/or family. Whether it is individual work or leading small groups, I've work with helping parents through difficult childhood behaviors and assisting in how to realign the family unit. The goal is to provide proven and research-based strategies to the family that they can then apply and add to their parenting tool kit.
Corporate Consultations
Corporate consultations are tailored uniquely to each corporation or business. Whether an organization is a start-up trying to support mental health for employees or a large corporation looking to provide trainings on stress, burnout, and identifying warning signs of mental health challenges, we lead these difficult discussions for you. These consultations aim to bring awareness on how supporting mental health is an integral part of success of an organization.
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Parent/caregiver consultations can be done a variety of ways depending on the need of the individual and/or family. Whether it is individual work or leading small groups, I've work with helping parents through difficult childhood behaviors and assisting in how to realign the family unit. The goal is to provide proven and research-based strategies to the family that they can then apply and add to their parenting tool kit.
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Corporate consultations are tailored uniquely to each corporation or business. Whether an organization is a start-up trying to support mental health for employees or a large corporation looking to provide trainings on stress, burnout, and identifying warning signs of mental health challenges, we lead these difficult discussions for you. These consultations aim to bring awareness on how supporting mental health is an integral part of success of an organization.