Let Us Help
Everyone experiences personal, family, emotional or other types of difficulties at some point in their lives. When our problems become unmanageable, we may need to turn to others for help.
Our mission is to provide quality mental health services for individuals, couples, and families of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County regardless of socioeconomic status.
Counseling Services
Our individual counseling offers professional, skilled, and therapeutic support tailored to your unique needs. These services are available to children, adolescents, and adults experiencing difficult life circumstances that negatively impact their mental health. Clients can use private insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, EAP, or our Sliding Scale program.
Individuals
Children
Children go through stages in their lives where they benefit from emotional support and require assistance with behavioral issues, emotional regulation, and trauma among other things. Counseling may be for individuals, with parent(s) or caregivers, and/or with the entire family. The Community Counseling Center serves children/adolescents ages 5–17.
Families
The Community Counseling Center is committed to serving individuals within the context of their relationships. Sometimes, a client’s problems may be related to their relationships with their family members or the patterns of interactions with families. Because of this, therapists at the Community Counseling Center sometimes work with whole families in order to improve relationships and interactions between members.
The Community Counseling Center provides a safe environment for couples to explore and address conflict in their relationship. Our counselors acknowledge and build upon strengths in a relationship to help the couple work through areas of growth.
Couples
Supervised Visitation
This program supports and supervises parents and their children during visits preserve their relationship when other factors may prevent them from visiting one another under more ‘natural’ circumstances. The supervised visitation program is designed to provide a safe environment for parents and children to visit and build positive parent/child relationships.
Courses & Groups
Coparenting Class
Parents who are separated or divorced are met with special challenges in raising kids harmoniously from two homes. We provide a one-time, four-hour class titled Co-Parenting: Two Children, Two Homes. This workshop, which meets the parent education guidelines developed by the Supreme Court of Virginia, will help you focus on healthy ways to parent from separate households – while keeping children out of the middle of custody, visitation, child support or divorce negotiations. Call or email us for required pre-registration.
Anger Management Groups
In this group, skills are developed to cope with anger and learn tips on how to communicate better in relationships at home and at work. Court-ordered participants are required to attend 13 groups and can miss up to three before starting over. Groups can be attended voluntarily as well, and participants can continue to attend groups after completing the 13 meetings at a reduced cost. Please call for more information about these groups (offered in English and Spanish, depending on clinician availability).
Substance Abuse Services
Assesments
Individuals seeking or ordered to Substance Abuse Services will undergo a 1 ½ hour assessment to review their substance use history and assess current dependency using various tools. Relevant information from previous treatment providers, court documents, or probation reports may also be reviewed. The assessment results in a diagnosis and treatment recommendations.
Education
This group or individual treatment is designed for first-time offenders and individuals with a mild to moderate dependency on alcohol or drugs, typically referred by community probation officers. The program consists of 10 weekly one-hour sessions, with groups held periodically throughout the year.
Treatment Groups
Persons in this group have a moderate to high level of dependency. It is often ordered by a court, probation officer, or the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program (ASAP). The group consists of ten 1 ½ hour meetings, and attendance at least 10 AA/NA support groups is a requirement of participation. This service is offered in English and Spanish.