Counseling for Children, Teens and Adults
LifeWorks AZ Counseling offers customized counseling programs for children, teens, and adults throughout Arizona.
Psychotherapist David Abrams assists his clients in alleviating depression, anxiety, phobias, creating healthy relationships and healthy communication, treating stress and difficult life challenges, coping with grief and loss, building and strengthening self-esteem, social skills, and life skills, anger management, problem solving, modifying unhealthy behaviors, gaining insight and awareness to create a desired change.
David focuses on a strengths-based approach in counseling. He believes that highlighting and tapping into all the gifts and strengths people have makes all the difference in creating the changes they desire in their lives. He also believes that it is vital to obtain balance physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually in order to create the desired change.
CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS, FAMILIES
David loves working with children and parents. He offers a place for parents to turn when they need help and have questions. He is able to connect with children and teens using humor and a flexible approach. Children quickly feel safe and comfortable, enjoying their time in therapy, and parents feel encouraged. He engages children using play and evidence-based, researched therapy techniques, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Behavioral Modification Therapy, Play Therapy, Family Systems Therapy, and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy. Strategies including goal-setting, time management, and healthy daily habits help adolescents address issues of self-esteem, social and peer pressure, identity and self-worth, mood regulation, behavior changes, and healthy communication skills. In the therapy process, families learn healthy and appropriate coping and communication skills to work together as a team. David is passionate about teaching parenting skills so parents become more effective and more connected with their children.ADULT INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
David has over two decades of experience helping clients, through counseling and therapy, to effectively manage depressive and anxious moods, learning to cope with grief and loss, cultivating healthy relationships, modifying unhealthy behaviors, and ultimately creating balance in all aspects of their lives.
David works daily with clients on the following challenges:
- Anxiety Disorders (practice skills to calm, soothe, take charge and empower)
- Depression (learning skills to elevate mood and create happiness)
- Anger (managing and expressing anger in healthy ways)
- Relationships (learning boundaries, self-care, and healthy communication)
- Negative Thoughts (learning to identify unhealthy, distorted thoughts that impact mood and behavior)
- Motivation/Concentration/Goal-Setting (building life strategies to reach desired goals)
- Confidence/Self-Esteem (CBT, DBT, and mindfulness to help build self-esteem)
Areas of Counseling and Treatment for Children, and Adults
- ADD
- ADHD
- Anger Management
- Anxiety in Children
- Adult Anxiety
- Aspergers
- Autism Spectrum Disorder ASD
- Behavior Modification
- Bipolar
- Careers Counseling
- Conduct Disorder
- Depression in Teens and Adults
- Family Counseling
- General Mental Health
- Goal Setting
- Grief/Loss
- Learning Disabilities
- Mood Dysregulation Disorder
- Oppositional Defiant
- Panic Attacks
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD
- Relationships
- Seperation Anxiety
- Social Skills
- Social Anxiety
- Sports Mental Training
- Problems with Video Games
- Video Game Addiction
Benefits of Counseling / Psychotherapy
- Acheive Goals
- Alleviate Anxiety & Depression
- Cope with Grief & Loss
- Create Healthy Relationships
- Develop Healthier Sleep Patterns
- Enhance and Regulate Moods
- Establish Healthy Boundaries
- Gain Insight & Awareness of Unhealthy Behavior
- Improve Social Skills
- Learn Effective Communications Skills
- Modify Behavior
- Obtain Problem Solving Techniques
- Strengthen Self Esteem
Some therapeutic techniques include:
- Cognitive Behavioral
- EMDR
- Family systems therapy
- Goal Setting / Coaching
- Humanistic
- Mindfulness therapy
- Play Therapy
- Solution-Based
- Strengths-Based
- Talk Therapy
- Treating Stress & Life Challenges