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Counseling Services

Choices Counseling and Consulting offers therapeutic services for a variety of psychological and emotional needs for women and men, children and adolescents. Services include Individual Therapy, Couples Counseling, Family Therapy, and Group Counseling. Clients will receive a thorough assessment, diagnosis as appropriate, and work with a therapist to develop an individualized treatment plan to address the issues that brought them to therapy.

The staff at Choices are trained in numerous psychotherapeutic skills, including psychodynamic theory, cognitive-behavioral theory, and transpersonal psychology. Staff have received specialized training in family systems theory, including working with couples and families. Staff are trained in the assessment of substance abuse and addictions, traumatology, depression and anxiety, HIV illness, and disorders of childhood and adolescence. All clinicians support feminist, client-centered, and empowerment-based models of care.

The staff at Choices have received specialized training in issues related to relationships, sexuality, sexual orientation and gender identity & expression. This includes working with lesbian and gay couples, heterosexual couples, bisexuals involved in gay or straight relationships, and any individual or couple struggling with issues related to sexuality, relationship intimacy, and coming out. Clinicians work with people struggling with sexual addictions, as well as issues related to sexual desire. Choices staff is trained in addressing gender-related concerns, including gender non-conforming behavior in children, transyouth, transgender and transsexual identity and expression in adults. The staff at Choices work with couples beginning families, struggles with infertility, and we provide homestudies for prospective parents, and post-adoption services for children and families. We also work with families with children with behavioral and emotional disorders.

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Individual Therapy is an opportunity to meet with a therapist one-on-one within a safe and confidential environment…. (read more about Individual Therapy)

Relationship, Marriage, and Family Therapy is an opportunity to meet with a therapist trained in couple and family counseling…. (read more about Relationship, Marriage, and Family Therapy)

Below is a list of common clinical concerns. (Read more about our expertise in these areas.)

  • Relationship & Couple Issues
  • Family & Parenting Issues
  • Healing Trauma & Abuse
  • Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity
  • Depression & Anxiety
  • Relationship Violence
  • Addictions & Recovery
  • Living with HIV & Illness
  • Body Image & Eating Disorders
  • Adoption Homestudies

Choices has a commitment to making therapy financially accessible. Therapists can work with many insurance companies and some services are available on a sliding scale. Follow this link for more information about Fees and Insurance.

All services are confidential and HIPPA regulations are rigorously followed to protect clients right to privacy.

Choices offices are and always have been wheelchair accessible.wheelchair

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Choices Counseling and Consulting
523 Western Avenue
Suite 2A
Albany, New York 12203
518-463-9152
info@choicesconsulting.com