Services
FSC’s mission and resources are dedicated to guide individuals, couples, and families to services and programs that can prevent, mitigate, and support mental health challenges. FSC offers a sliding scale fee option for individuals who are uninsured or underinsured. FSC is paneled with many insurance providers, including those that reimburse at a lower rate and are rarely an option at private practices. FSC offers:
Counseling
FSC provides affordable, accessible, and high-quality counseling to children, adolescents, adults, and families within the community seeking help for a wide range of emotional, behavioral, and relational difficulties. FSC makes these services accessible to community members by accepting a wide range of insurances and offering a subsidized fee for those demonstrating need.
FSC operates seven days a week, including evening and weekend hours, to ensure community members are able to obtain services that fit, not interfere, with their other commitments. FSC offers these services in person or via telehealth. FSC sets itself apart from other community mental health agencies through its service delivery by experienced, licensed clinicians who have expertise in treating varying presenting issues and populations.
FSC therapists include licensed clinical psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and licensed professional counselors, and beginning in FY23 two interns. FSC started a new clinical intern program as well as an international cultural intern program.
FSC clinicians are trained in a wide range of evidence-based interventions including, but not limited to, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Resilience Builder Program (RBP), and Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR). FSC’s staffing patterns allow us to work with the vast majority of people seeking services who need weekly outpatient counseling.
FSC clients present with a wide range of initial concerns. The following is a sample of common issues addressed through FSC’s counseling services:
- Emotional difficulties (e.g., depression, anxiety, anger, etc.)
- Adjustment to COVID-19, Traumatic loss in the wake of COVID-19
- Adjustment to changes in family composition (due to divorce, death, birth, college, etc.)
- Challenges with parenting including behavior management and managing social media
- Challenges with illness, aging, death, and loss
- Trauma exposure, adverse experiences, child abuse, or neglect
- Acculturation stress and challenges (immigrants can struggle in adapting to a new culture as well as the feelings of loss from their known culture)
Educational Programs
FSC works in the community to share important mental health education around a wide range of topics through the delivery of educational programming to groups that include staff, parents, teachers, school personnel, students, seniors, and community members at large. When invited, FSC collaborates with organizations to customize programming to address specific needs identified (i.e., impacts of social media or bullying). Linke below to learn more about arranging for a speaker at your organization and see many past presentaiton topics.
Health & Safety Risk Assessments
FSC is available (often within 4-48 hours) to respond to requests from local schools when a student appears at risk for self-harm or at risk for suicide. Sessions are often one time, in-person and can last from 60 to 120 minutes. The goal of this assessment is to help parents and school staff to better understand the level of risk to an individual student. The clinician will make a recommendation for a course and level of care. If upon an initial screening, a student is in imminent risk of self-harm, FSC staff will recommend that the parent take them to the nearest emergency room.
Community Crisis Response
FSC’s core value of realigning resources when urgent needs and crises arise is key to meeting community needs. FSC often responds within hours to requests for crisis support either for an entire organization or from a school in need of a health and safety assessment for a student.
These are situations that are impossible to plan for, almost always require completely customized responses, and can take a tremendous outlay of human resources as well as a significant emotional toll on the FSC staff involved. However, when an organization experiences a traumatic event, whether a sudden death of child or a co-worker, a suicide, a criminal act, or an act of incredible violence, being able to reach out to a team of trauma-informed experienced therapists to help guide a response is an invaluable service that FSC prioritizes to make available.
Clinical Consultation
FSC experienced team are available to support organizations with specific needs in a variety of areas such as social emotional program development, therapeutic consultations, or developing trauma informed response plans.
Community Outreach
Today more people are living with adverse symptoms of mental health issues (including lost joy, lost productivity, frayed relationships, declining physical health, and risk of worsening symptoms) and have come to accept these current experiences as a “new normal.” They do not yet realize that there are ways to alleviate and address these symptoms that are negatively impacting their functioning. Because of this, outreach has become more important than ever. FSC seeks opportunities to interact with families at community resource fairs or by setting up an “FSC table” at programs to educate and provide informational materials.
Group Programs and Workshops
FSC provides skill building programming in customized formats for organizations (i.e., mindfulness workshops) or as part of more structured small group multi-session programming (e.g., Leadership and Resilience Builder Program for high school and middle schoolers).
Multilingual | Multicultural Programs & Resources
At FSC we are interested in reaching all groups in our community. We have grown our clinical team to include native Spanish and Mongolian speakers who have also developed educational programming, communications, and community outreach programs designed specifically to support families in our community with cultural and language ties to Central and Latin America and Mongolia.