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Your Path to Healing Begins With Essential Counseling

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Counseling for lasting change.

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If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Frank A. Clark

SERVICES

Individual Therapy

Individual Therapy

Individual Therapy

Personalized one-on-one sessions to inspire change, and/or improve the quality of life by alleviating symptom.

Couples Therapy

Individual Therapy

Individual Therapy

Couples counseling helps improve a couple's relationship by resolving conflict, increasing intimacy, respect, and trust.

Family Therapy

Individual Therapy

Family Therapy

Build stronger family relationships, improve communication, and work through difficult times as a team.

Group Therapy

Premarital Counseling

Family Therapy

Group therapy is recommended as an adjunct to individual therapy, where the individual can achieve treatment goals more quickly with the support of a group setting.

Life Coaching

Premarital Counseling

Premarital Counseling

Learn valuable skills to enhance emotional intelligence and resilience. These interactive sessions provide tools and techniques that foster self-awareness, confidence and personal growth.

Premarital Counseling

Premarital Counseling

Premarital Counseling

To guide couples to better understand themselves and to thereby make informed decisions about the marriage they are contemplating. 

Clinical Internship Program

Clinical Internship Program

Clinical Internship Program

The clinical internship experience is one of the last steps in becoming a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Essential Counseling is committed to providing interns (LCSW's, CPC's, MFT's) with a prolific and professional learning experience.  

Psychoeducational Workshops

Clinical Internship Program

Clinical Internship Program

  1. ADHD
  2. Anger management
  3. Anxiety
  4. Depression
  5. Effective communication 
  6. Grief and loss
  7. Self-love
  8. Stress management
  9. Trauma

Telehealth Services

Clinical Internship Program

Telehealth Services

Telehealth, also known as telemedicine, enables patients to access psychotherapy services remotely through a computer, tablet, or smartphone, making mental health care more accessible than ever before.

RESOURCES

Anger Warning Signs

Benefits of Journaling

Anger Warning Signs

  1. Becoming aggressive
  2. Becoming argumentative
  3. Clenching fists
  4. Face turns red
  5. Feeling hot
  6. Insulting 
  7. Mind goes blank
  8. Pacing around the room
  9. Punching walls
  10. Rapid breathing
  11. Raising voice, or yelling
  12. Staring aggressively
  13. "Shut down" or go quiet
  14. Throwing things


333 Anxiety Rule

Benefits of Journaling

Anger Warning Signs

The 333 anxiety rule is a simple grounding technique used to manage anxiety symptoms.


  1. Three things you see: Identify and name three objects around you. 
  2. Three things you hear: Listen to and identify three sounds in your surroundings. 
  3. Three body parts you can move: Move three different parts of your body, such as your fingers, toes, or head. 

Benefits of Journaling

Benefits of Journaling

  1. Helps with problem-solving
  2. Increases awareness 
  3. Identifies patterns and triggers
  4. Improves emotional regulation
  5. Improves overall well-being
  6. Offers clarity
  7. Reduces stress
  8. Supports physical health



4-7-8 Breathing Exercise

  1. Close your mouth and inhale quietly through your nose to a mental count of four. 
  2. Hold your breath for a count of seven. 
  3. Exhale completely through your mouth, making a whoosh sound to a count of eight. 
  4. That was one complete breath. 
  5. Now, inhale again and repeat the cycle three more times for a total of four breaths.

Coping Skills for Depression

Coping Skills for Depression

  1. Limit social media use
  2. Exercise regularly
  3. Spend time with family and friends
  4. Get 7-8 hours of sleep
  5. Engage in hobbies, such as art, music, writing, or gardening
  6. Practice gratitude
  7. Challenge negative thoughts
  8. Increase dopamine and SMILE

Confidence Activity

Coping Skills for Depression

Our body language can influence how confident we feel. Striking a high-power pose for two minutes can boost your confidence. Try these poses!"

  1. The Gymnastic Dismount
  2. The Loomer
  3. The Obama
  4. The Salutation
  5. The Wonder Woman
  6. The Vanna White
  7. The Victory

Coping with ADHD

Unhealthy Ways of Thinking

Unhealthy Ways of Thinking

  1. Create a daily schedule
  2. Break larger tasks into smaller parts
  3. Set up a distraction-free work area
  4. Use lists and reminders
  5. Work for 20 minutes, then take a 5-minute break
  6. Lean into discomfort
  7. Find an accountability partner
  8. Move your body
  9. Practice healthy sleep habits
  10. Reward yourself
  11. Do a 10-minute mind dump

Unhealthy Ways of Thinking

Unhealthy Ways of Thinking

Unhealthy Ways of Thinking

  1. All-or-nothing thinking: Seeing things as all good or all bad.
  2. Catastrophizing: Expecting the worst to happen.
  3. Feelings as Facts: Believing your feelings are the truth.
  4. Fortune Telling: Thinking you know what will happen in the future and it will be bad.
  5. Ignoring the Good: Focusing only on the bad and ignoring the good.
  6. Mind Reading: Assuming you know what someone else is thinking.
  7. Negative Labeling: Believing your shortcomings applies to everything you do.
  8. Self-Blaming: Blaming yourself for for anything that goes wrong.
  9. Setting the Bar Too High: Thinking you must be perfect.
  10. "Should" statements: Expecting too much from yourself or others.




5 Stages of Grief and Loss

Unhealthy Ways of Thinking

5 Stages of Grief and Loss

  1. Denial: "This can’t be happening to me."
  2. Anger: A natural response that can be directed at oneself, others, or the disease.
  3. Bargaining: An attempt to negotiate or make compromises.
  4. Depression: Feeling too sad to do anything.
  5. Acceptance: Coming to terms with the loss and finding peace with what happened.

ABOUT US

OUR MISSION

Essential Counseling's mission is to provide individuals with exceptional mental health services in a safe, compassionate, and empowering environment as they embark on their path to well-being.

Clinical/Direct Supervisor and Owner of Essential Counseling

Lisa Roberson graduated with a bachelor's degree in social work in 1996 and a graduate degree in social work in 2003. After working with diverse populations for years, she completed the 3000 hours required by Nevada and 4000 hours required by Michigan to become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

Specialties

  1. Addictions 
  2. ADHD
  3. Anger
  4. Anxiety
  5. Bipolar Disorder
  6. Chronic Health Conditions
  7. Depression
  8. Low Self-Esteem
  9. Marital/Relationship Issues
  10. OCD
  11. Panic
  12. Personality Disorders
  13. Relationship issues with food
  14. Trauma


Our Approach

Our approach is eclectic and all treatment modalities and interventions are evidence-based. Treatment modalities that are considered evidence-based include: 


  1. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  2. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  3. Exposure Therapy
  4. Family Therapy
  5. Grief Therapy
  6. Person-Centered Therapy
  7. Play Therapy
  8. Person-Centered Therapy
  9. Solution-Focus Therapy 
  10. The Gottman Method

Insurances Accepted

  1. Aetna
  2. Alignment
  3. Anthem (Comercial, Medicaid)
  4. BCBS
  5. Cigna
  6. Culinary 
  7. Harmony
  8. HPN (HMO, Medicaid, PPO, POS)
  9. Humana
  10. Medicare
  11. Molina Medicaid
  12. Sierra Health and Life
  13. Select Health
  14. UMR
  15. United Healthcare
  16. Optum
  17. TriCare



No Surprises Act 

You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate of what your services may cost.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Crisis Hotlines

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 

www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org 

Dial or Text: 988

Crisis Support Services of NV 
https://cssnv.org

1-800-273-8255 or 
Text CARE to 839863

Crisis Text Line 
www.crisistextline.org 

Text HOME to 741741

Veterans Crisis Hotline

www.veteranscrisisline.net

1-800-273-8255

Trevor Project
www.thetrevorproject.org

1-866-488-7386

National Human Trafficking Hotline

help@humantraffickinghotline.org

1-888-373-7888

Text HELP to 233733 (BEFREE)


Recommended Books

  1. Believe It
  2. Building a life Worth Living
  3. Codependent No More
  4. Eat that Frog 
  5. Let Them
  6. Negative Self-Talk and How to Change It
  7. No Mud No Lotus
  8. Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
  9. The Alchemist
  10. The Compound Effect
  11. The Body Keeps the Score
  12. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook
  13. The Greatest Salesman in the World 
  14. The Game of Life
  15. The Love Addiction Workbook
  16. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
  17. The One Thing
  18. The Richest Man in Babylon
  19. The 6 Habits of Growth
  20. Untamed



CONTACT US

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ESSENTIAL COUNSELING

2911 North Tenaya Way, Ste 215, Las Vegas, Nevada 89128

725-205-2422

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