Your First Visit

At or before an initial meeting, each client is asked to complete several forms to facilitate the intake interview. Among these is a form concerning privacy and confidentiality adherence and limitations. As of January 1, 2022, clients who are not seeking therapy services through their health plan’s network, are also entitled to a Good Faith Estimate for the cost of anticipated care.

If you have scheduled an in-person intake, approximately 15 minutes upon your arrival will be used to review and complete any remaining registration paperwork prior to meeting with your therapist. To reduce the number of forms to fill out onsite, please print and complete those available below in advance, and bring them with you to the first meeting. Clients are requested to avoid emailing them, given the possibility of insecure electronic transmission.

Registration Form A  | Reg. Form B  |  Telehealth  |  Good Faith Estimate  |  Privacy Notice  

What is Counseling?

Counseling… refers to a helping relationship in which a therapist assists a client to identify and pursue agreed-upon goals, such as achieving a healthier lifestyle or more satisfying relationships. It also involves understanding barriers to progress and deciding on a strategy to overcome them.

Psychotherapy… is a general term for the exploration of mental health or emotional struggles through an interactive process between client and therapist. It is informed by psychological study and technique, and promotes insight, awareness, and personal changes as part of helping clients to achieve optimal functioning.

Our work with individuals and relationships at Kairos is integrative, experiential, and emphasizes family systems theories. While all therapists at Kairos embrace the broad understanding of counseling and psychotherapy noted above, each therapist may use one or more of the following approaches with any specific client, as reflects both the therapist’s orientation and the goals and needs of the client.

Marriage & Family Therapy… helps couples and families to clarify concerns, explore underlying dynamics, address areas of intimacy, communication and parenting, and improve skills for personal and relational well-being. Clients typically become more alert to indicators of dysfunction, and are assisted in becoming more equipped individually and as a unit to respond to struggles in healthier ways, including cultivating connection and developing growth strategies.

Cognitive Therapies… include a variety of theories and methodologies that address thought patterns which lead to, or perpetuate dysfunctional feelings and behaviors — helping clients to evaluate these patterns, and to engage in more positive life choices.

Christian Counseling… considers the whole person (body, mind, spirit), along with keen observations from the study of human life and relationships, which are seen as being hand-in-hand with insights and principles in the biblical scriptures. Christian counseling addresses individual and interpersonal wellness as in other therapies, with reference to Christ as the model for and Redeemer of humanity a welcome part of the dialogue for exploring how this influences personal goals, direction, relationships, and the accessing of faith resources for renewal and growth.