The Helping Counselor, LLC
WE ARE ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS!
Hi, I am Mr. Jackson, The Helping Counselor! Are you looking for a male BIPOC professional counselor? We are excited to start working with you to help you improve your mental health wellness!
Many of us are currently living in challenging times, with the political, legal, social, and economic changes in our country and worldwide. Many of us may feel that our communities, families, and personal lives are under attack and may feel powerless and helpless to stop the injustices around us. You are not alone! Please reach out for us to process what is happening, identify solutions and plans for you to reclaim your voice, strength, and power, and make tomorrow a little bit better than today.
Do you feel like you don’t fit in, accepted, or connected with other people, perhaps because of traumatic life experiences (childhood, adulthood, military, relationships), Biethnic (Mixed) identity, sexuality, gender, or disability? Then you’re not alone! Do you feel lonely & want to make friends and have meaningful relationships but fear rejection because this has happened in the past? Lastly, do you feel hopeless, worthless, rejected, abandoned, invisible, forgotten, suicidal & want to increase your confidence to make meaningful relationships? Call us.
Let’s reprocess your painful experiences, decrease or remove the negative emotions when you think about your painful experiences & build meaningful relationships. Many like us have found success in learning to accept ourselves for who we are & not who others want us to be. As a result, we can start forming meaningful relationships with healthier people by calling us.
Let’s reprocess your painful experiences, decrease or remove the negative emotions when you think about your painful experiences & build meaningful relationships. Many like us have found success in learning to accept ourselves for who we are & not who others want us to be. As a result, we can form meaningful relationships with healthier people by calling us.
We can relate to feeling traumatized, like we don’t fit in with “the crowd” or family and want to be accepted by “everyone.” Therefore, we may cope by keeping to ourselves so we will not feel rejected by other people and feel sadder, “depressed,” & alone. Can you relate to asking yourself, “Why me? Why don’t I fit in with everyone? What’s wrong with me?” Then call us.
What Services Are Provided?
The Helping Counselor works with clients who are struggling with some of the following concerns:
- Wellness Focused Issues:
- Biethnic Identity
- Gender Identity
- Sexual Orientation
- LGBT “Family” Community
- Identity Trauma
- Trauma-Related Experiences:
- Family
- Friendships
- Personal Relationships
- Coworkers
- Military Service
- Military Sexual Trauma
- Sexual Trauma
- Childhood Trauma
- Interpersonal Violence/Domestic Violence
- Physical, Verbal, Emotional, Psychological, Financial
- Ethnic “racial” Identity
- Sexuality/Gender Identity
- Political and Social Trauma
- “DEI” Under Attack
- Intergenerational Trauma
- Federal Employees Being Illegally Terminated
- Neurodiversity:
- Learning Disabilities
- Speech Impediments
- Feeling Different
- Veterans/Servicemembers and Military Families:
- Active Service Member
- Retired
- Veterans
- Military Family Members
- Military Related Trauma
- Self-Directed Violence:
- Suicide Ideation
- Suicide Attempts
- Recent Discharge From Psychiatric Hospitalization
- Self Injurious Behavior
- Hopelessness, Helplessness, Worthlessness
The Helping Counselor (THC) Mission:
What Solutions Will We Develop Together?
Finding The Right Counselor
As you start this recovery journey, it is important that you have a trusted professional counselor along the way will be essential. Each of us is like a snowflake; no two professional counselors are the same, and you will need to find the right fit for you, which can feel like a big challenge. Our goal at The Helping Counselor is for you to feel supported throughout our time together to process your experiences in a safe therapeutic environment.
We encourage you to ask yourself some of the following questions to clearly understand what you are looking for in a professional counselor.
What Preferences Do I Have?
1. Do I want a professional counselor of a particular sex or gender?
2. Do I prefer a younger or older professional counselor?
3. Do I prefer a professional counselor of my ethnicity or who can relate to my cultural background?
4. Do I want a professional counselor who knows the difference between sex, gender, and sexual orientation?
5. Do I want a professional counselor who can relate to some of my life experiences?
6. Do I want a professional counselor through telehealth or in person?
These are just a few questions we would encourage you to consider in making an informed shared decision about your care and determining if we are a good fit for your wellness needs.
The Helping Counselor also wants to ensure we are a good clinical fit for your needs, and if we are not a good match, then we will let you know and provide you with some resources to try and obtain a better match for your wellness goals.
What Can I Expect In Treatment?
As a Licensed Professional Counselor, we believe treatment should be episodic, meaning you come to counseling for a limited time, and we work on the wellness goals you outlined to no longer need professional counseling. After achieving these goals, you will be discharged from treatment and encouraged to continue implementing these tools, resources, and changes throughout your life without our direct support. After all, you came to treatment, you put in the hard work, and now it is time to keep moving forward without being in professional counseling services. If you have different goals you want to accomplish or need to strengthen some of your previous skills, you are welcome to come back to reevaluate if another episode of care is required.
We provide professional wellness counseling, starting with a Person Center foundation. Moreover, treatment is provided through an assimilative integration approach; therefore, based on your wellness goals and needs, we will identify the type of professional counseling treatment you will be provided.
Some of the options we can decide on together include:
Trauma-Informed Counseling
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
BSP (Brainspotting)
CPT (Cognitive Processing Therapy)
PE (Prolonged Exposure)
ASPI (Advance Suicide Prevention Intervention)
CBT-SP (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-Suicide Prevention)
PST-SP (Problem Solving Therapy-Suicide Prevention)
DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy)
Problem-Solving Therapy
Solution Focused Brief Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Gottman Method Family Therapy
Reality Theory/Choice Theory
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Enhancement Therapy
There are over 400 different counseling interventions available for clients; however, we do not provide every treatment option. Instead, we specialize in specific treatment interventions and modalities. At the same time, this is not an inclusive list of possible treatment options; instead, these are some of the primary professional counseling interventions we used at The Helping Counselor. If you are interested in working with The Helping Counselor and do not see treatment options available, let’s chat and see if this is possible. If it is not a treatment option we offer, we will be upfront and tell you because this is your wellness counseling treatment, and you deserve nothing less than to make an informed decision.
We encourage you to review our theoretical intervention page to learn more about them and see if they meet your counseling expectations.
Investing In Your Mental Wellness
Professional Wellness Counseling may seem expensive, but it can pay off in both the short and long run by enhancing your quality of life by entering the recovery process and not being anchored to the past. Therefore, wellness counseling can be a valuable investment for your life, family, and future; before many people seek wellness counseling, they have already tried talking to friends, family members, coworkers, and religious leaders, which has not provided them the help they want.
By working with a professional counselor to help improve your emotional wellness can help you better cope with life stressors, reprocess your trauma, improve different relationships, and overcome complex challenges in a relatively short amount of time. As a result, wellness counseling can also reduce trauma, depressive, and anxiety symptoms, not needing to depend on maladaptive -unhealthier – coping skills. Specifically, wellness counseling can help people avoid or minimize relationship issues, physical and emotional health problems, and financial stressors, and sometimes even reduce or eliminate the need for taking certain medications based on your discussions with your medication providers.
Co-Creating & Implementing A Wellnesses Aftercare Plan
You must apply what you learn daily to make the most of your wellness counseling sessions. Wellness counseling is not a quick fix, “like taking a pill.” Instead, active participation and commitment in our wellness sessions are required, and you must apply these resources outside of the counseling sessions in your life.
Suppose you stop practicing the skills and strategies you learned in counseling. In that case, you may fall back into old thinking, feeling, and behavioral patterns. Recovery is an ongoing process that goes beyond wellness counseling. We will co-create a wellness aftercare plan before concluding your final session.
By completing counseling, your wellness aftercare plan is a personalized action plan to help you maintain and enhance your mental health and wellness. It may include joining peer support groups, taking care of yourself, engaging in “shadow work,” staying actively involved with your other ongoing treatment providers like your primary care provider (PCP), avoiding triggers, using healthier coping skills, journaling, reaching out for support if you need future follow-up sessions or taking your medication as directed.
Your wellness aftercare plan can help you focus on your recovery and avoid mental health relapses if you continue to use it.
The Helping Counselor (THC) Philosophy:
Dalai Lama … “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”
What are you ready and willing to do to
reach your wellness goals?
Mental Wellness Expectations
The wellness counseling process is a collaborative effort between your professional counselor and you, the client. It involves the following stages: establishing a trusting relationship, exploring and identifying the client’s issues and goals, and then developing a wellness treatment plan. Moreover, the professional counselor will implement clinical wellness interventions, and the client will actively participate in the counseling sessions.
The client must practice what they have learned and practiced in their counseling sessions outside the counseling sessions. Next, the professional counselor and the client will continue to evaluate their wellness progress. Throughout the wellness counseling, the professional counselor will maintain their ethical principles and professional standards to guide the counseling process with the client.
To proceed with scheduling an intake appointment, you will need to email Mr. Jackson at Cjackson@thehelpingcounselor.com. He will respond using Microsoft Outlook’s HIPAA-approved and encrypted email to ensure your confidentiality. If you request to use unencrypted email, please understand that someone can intercept our emails and break your privacy. When you send your email, please indicate what problems you would like to work on and/or goals you would like to achieve. Once The Helping Counselor receives your email, we will usually contact you within 24 business hours; however, rarely, it may take up to 48 business hours based on client care.
If You are In A Crisis, Get Help Immediately!
The Helping Counselor will make every attempt to inform you in advance of planned absences.
If you’re in pain, struggling, in crisis, unable to keep yourself safer, or needing immediate help, please call 911, go to the nearest emergency department, contact Lifeline at 988, or chat with Lifeline Chat services. Additional information can be found on their website: www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org.
Call: 988
Text: 988
Chat: 988 Chat Support
Deaf/HoH can Reach Out to 988 By Videophone: Deaf/HoH Videophone Support
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a national network of local crisis centers providing free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal or emotional distress 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They are committed to improving crisis services and advancing suicide prevention by empowering individuals, promoting professional best practices, and building awareness https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org.
Veteran Crisis Line: Veterans Crisis Line
Service Members: Active Military Service Members
Active Duty/Veteran’s Call: 988 (Press 1)
Active Duty/Veteran’s Text: 838255
Active Duty/Veteran’s Chat: Veteran’s VCL Chat
LGBT Community: LGBT Help Center
National Violence Support Line: National Domestic Violence Hotline