Sole Practitioner Environment
A private waiting room and comfortable office provide a confidential environment in which to resolve your symptoms and problems.Individual Issues, Individual Choices
You'll be assisted in taking maximum responsibility for your past, present and future choices. As your sense of well-being and competence is enhances, self-victimization tendencies will diminish.
Relationship and Family Strengthening
As client's concerns are often about partners, children or other family members, others may be included in treatment when deemed clinically necessary.
Focused Assessment and Treatment
Once educated about your diagnosis, you will find it easier to make treatment choices - followed by life choices - which should enable you to resolve symptoms and problems.
Educationally-Oriented Treatment
Educationally-oriented therapy works to enhance your knowledge about your symptoms, illness, or problem. This increases client autonomy and independence, and makes growth less dependent on the therapist. Therapy becomes the beginning of developing coping skills and methods, supported by a new knowledge base, which can be maintained after and beyond formal course of treatment.
Individual or Group Therapy
Dr. Atchison primarily utilizes individual psychotherapy. However, you may wish to participate in an additional educational program or group psychotherapy experience. These alternative methods of treatment may assist you in problem resolution and can also lower the cost of therapy.
What to Expect in Initial Sessions
In the first session we will clarify insurance issues; copays; referral, and the treatment agreement. This usually takes about 10 minutes.
The second and third sessions focus on formal assessment of symptoms and problems, arriving at a diagnosis. A written treatment plan is developed by agreement between us. If requested, this will be sent to your family doctor.
Out treatment progress is reviewed on an ongoing basis, until a clients symptoms are in remission or at least manageable, and the presenting problems are being resolved.