Chris DiRaddo LPC
Discover the benefits of professional counseling, coaching and support.
I offer a range of professional counseling and coaching services to help my patients overcome their fears, depression, anxieties, and stresses while focusing on assisting them in achieving their goals. In my practice we use focusing, visualization, creativity, relaxation, and safe emotional expression to foster growth and change.
Services
Counseling and Coaching. It is my passion to support my clients as they strive to succeed and thrive in their personal and professional lives. I am able to guide my clients to tap into the flow state and unlock personal possibilities. I am trained and highly experienced in many modalities including coaching, art psychotherapy, guided meditation, hypnotherapy & breath therapy. Clients learn these non-intrusive, empowering techniques to use independently for performance improvement, pain relief, stress reduction, and calming the mind. These modalities are also highly supportive for depression, anxiety, PSTD, relaxation, chronic pain management and life transitions.
Art Therapy. When appropriate, I encourage clients to use symbols and imagery, as well as art processes that include drawing, painting, and clay mask making to express what words cannot. The unconscious process that goes along with creating art helps tap into the internal, cognitive needs of the patient. Art therapy uses both the creative and cognitive sides of the brain. Art therapy has been proven to assist in balancing brain states, encouraging relaxation and self-renewal. I am an Art therapist (registered) and have extensive experience integrating Art therapy into counseling. This optimizes the benefits of the counseling and helps patients reduce stress, anxiety, depression and many other life challenges.
Individualized Approach. All individuals are different and so are their desires, needs and goals. Change happens when we are relaxed. Through focused listening, being present and providing a calming and safe environment, I develop a connection with each person and become highly attuned to their unique relaxed space where healing and flow happens. I use my extensive experience and a wide variety of my tools and techniques to foster change and inspire transformation for a wide variety of individuals.
Counseling for Children. Children learn and change using metaphor. To really understand the child, we must enter their world. I do this through the art of story sand play. Within this creative capacity, children can begin to change their understanding of their world using symbols, and that can go from a negative experience to a positive experience just by adding in their own imaginative resource.
Counseling for Couples. I assist couples in understanding the other person's needs and how they can be fulfilled in a loving, caring way. Couples therapy is safe, active, supportive, and even fun. As a PACT trained counselor, I utilize neural biological and attachment theory to help couples understand each other. My sessions help couples feel that they are the other person's number one priority both in the counseling session and in daily life.
Coaching for Athletes and Teams and Proffesionals. Working with competitive athletes and teams and high performers is an opportunity to expand what is possible, and create new potential. The challenge lies in understanding their unique needs as highly competitive, driven individuals. As a coach, I have an opportunity to find the best way to help guide and unlock potential by creating a container that allows the client(s) the right tools to develop and reset. I thoroughly enjoy coaching the highly competitive clients and assisting them to find balance and new heights.
Tele-Health Video Counseling
Now offering Live Video Counseling for long distance clients!
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