Counseling Services Offered
JFCS provides high quality, confidential counseling services to individuals, couples, groups, families and children. Issues that are frequently addressed in counseling might include:
Individual Counseling
If you decide to seek individual counseling, you can expect at your first session that you and your counselor will discuss the problems, which have led you to seek services. Together, you will create a plan to address these concerns. This might include working with you individually, referring you to an appropriate group, or bringing in other family members. We are focused on quickly targeting the appropriate area of your life and helping you feel better as quickly as possible. Our counselors use results-oriented, short-term approaches for the most part, but also recognize that there are times when longer-term work may be needed, and we try to tailor our approach to the need.
Parent Coaching
The parent coaches at Jewish Family & Child Service are counselors who have special expertise and training in childhood development and family interactions. They can offer sound advice during those times when nothing seems to be working and parents find themselves becoming increasingly overwhelmed and frustrated. It is a collaborative process in which the parent coach helps parents identify priorities and make choices based on what is optimal for their own parenting style and unique family system.
Parent coaches typically help with issues such as the following:
- Positive discipline strategies
- Sibling rivalry
- Family transitions
- Sleeping or eating issues
- Compliance and cooperation
- Managing parental emotions
- Eliminating power struggles
- Decreasing parent burn-out
- Understanding age-appropriate behaviors and phases common to all children
- Children with special needs
To begin the process, an initial in-home evaluation is completed, and then parents and coaches create a plan together identifying specific goals. Follow-up coaching is typically done by phone or e-mail; most parents find this much more convenient to fit into their busy day. It also provides more immediate support and feedback to parents at the time when it is most needed as they actively work on their goals. Getting more immediate feedback and support from the parent coach can help prevent problems from becoming bigger and more overwhelming.
For more information or to schedule an evaluation, call 503-226-7079 ext.21.
Groups & Workshops
JFCS offers a variety of groups – these might include support groups, psycho-educational groups, or therapy groups. Call for current group opportunities.
In response to community need, JFCS has offered a variety of workshops. Among these have included bereavement support groups, parenting groups, groups for parents and their middle school children, children of Holocaust survivors, children with aging parents and much more.
We can present these workshops to your community group or our experienced staff can customize a workshop for your group at your request.
'Successful Kids' In-School Program
JFCS offers support to children, parents and teachers through our Successful Kids program located at selected local elementary schools. The Successful Kids program was developed to provide interventions within the school setting to promote the emotional, educational and social well being of children. JFCS counselors provide individual and group counseling, classroom observations and interventions, teacher and parent consultations, and parent workshops. They are available, on site, to work in collaboration with teachers to help children resolve problems as they occur during the school day. Successful Kids interventions are designed to address risk factors that may interfere with a child's readiness to learn while enhancing supports that promote successful learning skills.
Internship Opportunities
JFCS offers internship opportunities for graduate students from different programs throughout the area, such as the Graduate School of Social Work at Portland State University, Lewis & Clark Counseling Psychology program, as well as others. These internships generally require a nine-month commitment during the school year.
Our interns enjoy the open and welcoming atmosphere at the agency and the interest that staff have in each intern's individual learning experience. Interns provide a variety of services in several of our program areas.
For more information call Barbara Kollmar, LCSW at 503-226-7079 x24
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