Who We Are
What we do:
Our focus is to help individuals heal, energize, and become aware of their inner strengths. We achieve this by providing a neutral safe space, listening to your concerns, and customizing a treatment plan.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy:
We use cognitive behavioral & solution focused therapy to assist in understanding your goals and working to recognize how the challenges you have experienced affect you. Developing the skills needed to realize ways to choose a life path is needed to reaching your ambitions, whether they be ones involving resolving trauma, improving relationships or setting personal goals.
Our Goal:
To be there for you every step of your journey, to help you grow from your struggles, heal from your pain, and move forward to where you want to be in your life.
Meet The Team
Susan Henry Blackburn
Hey, I'm Susan (Ham) Blackburn and have been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Sarasota, Florida for over thirty years. During those years I have worked with blended families, young adults pursuing various careers, relationships (including marriages), and individuals trying to navigate difficult decisions in life. Click the button below to learn more about me.
Credentials: Licensed Clinical Social Worker SW#1719 Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Certified School Social Worker Adoption Competency
Bryson Dale Blackburn
More info about Bryson coming soon…
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Know More About Life Counseling
It is often said, “Life is what happens when you’re making plans.” Life is a path. Sometimes that path seems straight, but more often there are bumps in the road.
Services
Relationship Counseling
Relationships can be hard. Relationships with family like parents, siblings or children. Friendships and romantic relationship also carry many challenges if there are disagreements. Also, relationships change as you get older and sometimes to help improve the health of your most valued relationships, it helps to see a professional that can guide and provide insight.
Individual Counseling
Adulting is a word that many look forward to and then are surprised by the responsibilities that this word includes. Adults face different responsibilities at different times during adulthood. This may be complicated by depression, anxiety, adjustments, traumas and losses. Hope and a Future is here to listen and support you during this time.
Career Counseling
A dream is something you think about. A goal is something you achieve. Making decisions for your educational path and career choices can be overwhelming. Choices that are made even in middle school can affect the path you take. Opening your options, being aware of your choices and turning dreams into goals is the purpose of an educational consultant.
Life Coaching
Life Coach Career Counselor in Sarasota: Personal or Professional Help
There are times that you need a sounding board. Someone who is neutral yet able to take the information and help you sort through the options you have in deciding a career or life path. Coaching involves helping a person make life-improving actions to achieve their goals.
Parents & Families
Parenting is a “job” that can look different depending on your family situation. There are times getting a perspective on challenges faced in parenting is needed. This is true whether you are parenting biological children, stepchildren, children yours through adoption or parenting grandchildren.
Marriage Facilitation
Understanding the expectations, both spoken and unspoken we bring to marriage help us improve our relationships before the “I do’s” and after. The Symbis Assessment is a tool used to help couples understand themselves to improve communication in marriage.
— SYMbIS Certified pre Marriage facilitator