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The clinical staff of Licensed Mental Health Professionals and Paraprofessionals provides services to adults and children under the guidelines of the Arkansas RSPMI Program. LSCI also offers free support groups. Availability is limited and dependent upon community need and participation. Please contact your local office for more information. Life Strategies Counseling, Inc. is one of the leading group counseling practices in the state, and home to a team of highly trained and nationally recognized mental health professionals. The Licensed Mental Health Professionals and Paraprofessionals at LSCI provide focused professional attention to adults and children in distress under the guidelines of the Arkansas RSPMI Program. Bringing the experience and specialties of multiple therapists together, and providing highly personalized treatment in a condensed time frame, expedites the treatment process. Clients get the focused attention that they need to address their problems in a comfortable and focused setting —with rapid treatment that is more likely to be successful over time.
Headquartered in Jonesboro, Arkansas and with locations throughout the state, LSCI is a pioneer in providing individualized intensive outpatient therapy, with expertise in a number of life issues including, addiction, relationship difficulties, depression, codependence, anxiety, eating disorders, sexual issues, trauma resoulutions as well as family and individual therapy. |
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After School / Summer Programs
LSCI is a leading provider of full-service pediatric and school-based therapy staffing. We offer a variety of After-School and Summer School Programs throughout the state of Arkansas. Our rehabilitation professionals are committed to providing each child with the highest level of care within a family-centered, collaborative care-plan environmental atmosphere. LSCI’s healthcare delivery philosophy is built upon a foundation of caring, respect and dedication for each patient and their loved ones.
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Adult Drug and Alcohol Programs
For more informaton, please contact 870-972-1268 or toll free 1-866-972-1268.
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Case Management
Case Management services are provided to assist persons in dealing with basic everyday challenges. The case manager's role is to assist the client in accessing health and psychosocial services in a timely and coordinated manner. One goal of case management is to promote continuity of care so that clients can function independently by using government, private, and community resources. The goal of case management is to assist the client in maintaining independence. A team of case managers may work with one client so that services are not interrupted when one specific case manager is not available.
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Family Therapy
Family relationships can be the most loving, but also the most stressful. We know our family members, and they know us, better than almost anyone. That creates opportunities for wonderful joy as well as deep pain. When those more painful times come, LSCI can help your family be more of a family again. Whatever your needs are, LSCI will work with you and your family to try to meet them.
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Group Therapy
Groups are an opportunity for individuals to explore thoughts, feelings, and relationships with peers in the presence of a professional group leader. Clients often find that group counseling is an important adjunct to individual counseling or, in fact, the treatment of choice for some problems. Members of the group give feedback and support to each other by expressing their own feelings about what someone says or does. These interactions offer group members an opportunity to learn more about the way they interact with others and to try out new ways of behaving. What makes the situation unique is that it is a closed and safe system. The content of the group sessions is confidential; what members talk about or disclose is not discussed outside the group.
Clients can attend group counseling while engaged in a course of individual counseling, after individual counseling has been completed, or instead of individual counseling.
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Individual Therapy
In individual counseling or therapy, a client meets one-on-one with a staff member, usually in fifty-minute sessions. Such a working relationship may last for only a few sessions or may continue for much longer, depending on the needs of the client. Clients come to LSCI for a wide range of reasons. Common issues include: general anxiety and stress, difficult childhood and family experiences (past and present), relationship struggles, depression, homesickness, and eating and body image issues. Clients also come to LSCI to work toward developing a better self-image, to explore existential themes (e.g. "What's my purpose?" or "Why am I here?"), or to achieve personal growth. The approach to such treatment varies from person-to-person, but may for some include a good deal of initial work involving the client's past experiences, and for others may emphasize current experiences. We provide a supportive environment in which our clients are able to work toward their unique goals.
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Medication Management
LSCI will meet with you periodically to determine how well your medication is working and to make adjustments as needed. The frequency of visits depends on whether changes are being made and how well you are doing.
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Play Therapy
- What is Play Therapy?
Initially developed around 1900, today it refers to many treatment methods. All apply the therapeutic benefits of play. Play therapy differs from regular play. Therapists help children address and resolve their own problems. Play therapy builds on the natural way children learn about themselves and their relationships in the world. Through play therapy, children learn to communicate with others, express feelings, modify behavior, develop problem-solving skills, and learn new ways of relating. Play provides a safe psychological distance from their problems and facilitates developmentally appropriate expression of thoghts and feelings.
How does Play Therapy Work?
Children are referred for play therapy to resolve their problems. Often, children have used up their own problem solving tools, may misbehave or act out at school or school. Trained mental health practitiones use play therapy to assess and understand children's play. Further, it is utilized to help children cope with difficult emotions and find solutions to problems. By confronting problems in the clinical play therapy setting, children find healthier solutions. Play therapy helps children change the way they think about, feel toward, and resolve concerns. The most troubling problems can be confronted and lasting resolutions can be discovered, rehersed, mastered and become lifelong strategies.
Who benefits from Play Therapy?
Play therapy is the treatment of choice in mental health, school, agency, developmental, hospital, residential, and recreational settings, with clients, especially children, of all ages.
Play therapy is especially appropriate for children 3-12 years. Play therapy helps children:
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Become responsible for behaviors.
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Develop creative solutions.
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Develop respect for others and self acceptance.
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Learn to experience and express emotion.
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Cultivate empathy for thoughts and feelings of others.
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Learn new social skills and relational skills with family.
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Develop self-efficiency and better assuredness about abilities.
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Psychiatric Evaluations
A psychiatric evaluation is a broad assessment of your current mental health and mental health history, social history, medical problems and any substance abuse problems. Based on this assessment, LSCI is better able to determine whether psychiatric medication is needed, and which medication(s) may be most effective.
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Psychological Testing
LSCI specializes in psychological and educational testing, providing comprehensive assessments for children, adolescents, and adults. If you or your child is struggling in school or at work with academic achievement or work performance, behavior problems, or interpersonal relationships, you may benefit from an evaluation assessing the wide range of components that affect learning, achievement, and performance potential. An evaluation will describe areas of cognitive strengths and weaknesses, provide a picture of social-emotional functioning, and indicate the specific sources of performance difficulties. Diagnoses and recommendations are included to guide specific interventions and/or to communicate to school psychologists the requisite accommodations.
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School-Based Therapy
LSCI is a leading provider of full-service pediatric and school-based therapy staffing. We place pediatric speech language pathologists, occupational therapists, and physical therapists in permanent positions and contract therapy assignments throughout Arkansas. Our rehabilitation professionals are committed to providing each child with the highest level of care within a family-centered, collaborative care-plan environment atmosphere. LSCI’s healthcare delivery philosophy is built upon a foundation of caring, respect and dedication for each patient and their loved ones.
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Support Groups
LSCI also offers free support groups. Availability is limited and dependent upon community need and participation. Please contact your local office for more information.
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Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is a united child and parent psychotherapy approach for children and adolescents who are experiencing emotional distress related to a traumatic life experience. Through TF-CBT children and parents learn new skills to help process thoughts and emotions related to traumatic life events and helps to increase healthy open communication within the family unit.
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