Therapy Services
FBS serves individuals of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds. We provide two-fold services that can meet the needs of individuals seeking traditional and non-traditional therapy services. We specialize in working with individuals with a variety of needs including those with cognitive impairments, processing challenges or other learning barriers.
Our clinicians are skilled in different areas of expertise and use a client-focused approach in all aspects of treatment.
For Out-Patient therapy services, we take UPHP/Medicaid, BCBS/BCN, United, Aetna, Cigna, and Self Pay.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of psychological treatment that has been demonstrated to be effective for a range of problems including depression, anxiety disorders, alcohol and drug use problems, marital problems, eating disorders, and severe mental illness.
CBT places an emphasis on helping individuals learn to be their own therapists. Through exercises in the session as well as “homework” exercises outside of sessions, patients/clients are helped to develop coping skills, whereby they can learn to change their own thinking, problematic emotions, and behavior.
CBT therapists emphasize what is going on in the person’s current life, rather than what has led up to their difficulties. A certain amount of information about one’s history is needed, but the focus is primarily on moving forward in time to develop more effective ways of coping with life.
Motivational Interviewing (MI)
MI is a collaborative, goal-oriented style of communication with particular attention to the language of change. It is designed to strengthen personal motivation for and commitment to a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion. It is important to note that MI requires the clinician to engage with the client as an equal partner and refrain from unsolicited advice, confronting, instructing, directing, or warning. It is not a way to “get people to change” or a set of techniques to impose on the conversation. MI takes time, practice and requires self-awareness and discipline from the clinician.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT therapy) is a type of mindful psychotherapy that helps you stay focused on the present moment and accept thoughts and feelings without judgment. It aims to help you move forward through difficult emotions so you can put your energy into healing instead of dwelling on the negative.
With the help of a licensed professional, you’ll pick up a collection of coping mechanisms specifically designed for your situation, which you can use throughout your life to handle challenging experiences.
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
PCIT is an evidence-based, short-term therapy for families with young children (typically 2–7 years old) with emotional or behavioral difficulties that focuses on improving the quality of the parent-child relationship.
Through live coaching, therapists guide caregivers in positive interaction skills and effective, calm discipline strategies to reduce problem behaviors and strengthen attachment.
PCIT helps caregivers of children who display a variety of behaviors, including but not limited to defiance, difficulty following directions, temper tantrums, aggression, whining, and hyperactivity.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR treats mental health conditions that happen because of memories from traumatic events in your past. It’s best known for its role in treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but its use is expanding to include treatment of many other conditions.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT)
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is an evidence-based treatment for children and adolescents impacted by trauma and their parents or caregivers. Research shows that TF-CBT successfully resolves a broad array of emotional and behavioral difficulties associated with single, multiple and complex trauma experiences.
Play Therapy
Play therapy is to children what counseling is to adults. Play therapy utilizes play, children’s natural medium of expression, to help them express their feelings more easily through toys instead of words.
Association for Play Therapy (APT) defines play therapy as “the systematic use of a theoretical model to establish an interpersonal process whereby trained play therapists use the therapeutic powers of play to help clients prevent or resolve psychosocial difficulties and achieve optimal growth and development.
Couples Therapy
Couples therapy offers a space to slow down, reconnect, and better understand one another beyond moments of conflict. Together, we explore patterns in communication, emotional responses, and the ways each partner experiences closeness, distance, and safety in the relationship. This work is grounded in an understanding of attachment—how we connect and respond to one another—and invites partners to share and reshape the stories they carry about themselves and each other. The process is collaborative and skill-building, integrating evidence-based approaches such as cognitive-behavioral and Gottman-informed strategies, while emphasizing presence, curiosity, and meaningful connection.
Our Approach
We believe effective care starts with listening, understanding, and building meaningful connections. Our approach recognizes that every individual brings unique strengths, challenges, and goals to the process.
Through personalized services, professional expertise, and collaborative support, we help individuals and families work toward progress that matters in their everyday lives.
These services are available in Marquette County and tele-health to help with a variety of symptoms and needs which include:
ADD/ADHD
OCD
Anxiety
Depression
Adjustment Disorder
Post-Traumatic Stress
Behavioral Challenges (Anger, Aggression, Property Disruption, etc.)
Symptoms:
Feeling sad or down, excessive fear or worry, extreme mood changes, social withdrawal, difficulty managing stress, lack of impulse control, self-harm, trouble navigating life transitions (adolescence to adulthood), and for Parents/ Caregivers who want to understand their child’s developmental needs.