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LEGACY COUNSELING, LLC
WHO WE ARELegacy Counseling, LLC provides therapeutic services to families utilizing a holistic approach that recognizes the individual and addresses their core needs. Our Clinicians are committed to helping youths with emotional, medical and behavioral health concerns. Families are actively supported and guided towards identifying and understanding the treatment process, interventions, goals and strategies. Our service to the community sits upon a foundation of effective, evidence-based treatment interventions that are culturally competent and strength based. Our scope encompasses our Clinicians, Case Management Organizations and Family Members. We strive to assist our families and communities to maintain stability and achieve personal goals by providing compassion, support and solutions.
Our commitment to organizational growth and community spirit necessitates that, Administratively and ethically, the following Values be embraced and practiced by the entire Legacy Team:
Dignity - We believe that every individual inherently possesses worth and value.
Integrity - We believe that the trust that our families and communities place upon us is
supported by the personal and professional integrity of every individual at Legacy. Choice - We encourage Choices based on experience and quality of life.
Empowerment - We inspire and challenge those among us to find their inner strength and seek
that same power within those they chose to serve. Personal Growth - We believe that everyone can develop and achieve goals and desires when
motivated towards greatness. Relationships - We strive to build natural support systems while fostering a sense of
community, connection, and compassion. Innovations - We foster, embrace and encourage an environment that promotes the leaders of
the future.
That is why our Mission Statement is to provide "Meaningful purpose, driven action...Our Legacy for tomorrow."
COUNTY AREAS SERVED
• ESSEX• HUDSON• HUNTERDON• MERCER• MIDDLESEX• SOMERSET• UNION• WARREN
WHAT WE SPECIALIZE IN
• ADHD / ADD • ANXIETY /ANGER MANAGEMENT
• AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS
• BEHAVIORAL CONDUCT DISORDER
• BIPOLAR DISORDER
• BULLYING
• DEPRESSION
• DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS
• DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
• EATING DISORDERS
• GRIEF/LOSS
• LEARNING DISABILITIES
• OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER• OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER• PERSONALITY DISORDERS• REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER• SCHOOL ISSUES• SELF-INJURY• TEEN ISSUES• TRAUMA / PTSD• FAMILY DYSFUNCTIONS• FIRE-SETTER• SCHOOL ISSUES• SEXUAL OFFENDER• SUICIDAL IDEATION/HOMICIDAL
IDEATION
TREATMENT APPROACH
Legacy Counseling follows the strengths based WrapAround treatment approach in which careful consideration is made in evaluating each individual and families specific strengths and needs in each life domain area including but not limited to:
• Safety• School/Work• Health• Social/Recreational• Living Situation• Legal Issues• Culture• Behaviors• Emotions• Transportation• Finances
WHAT WE DO
SPECIALIZED TREATMENT SERVICES
• IMDS – NEEDS AND STRENGTHS• CLINICAL & IN-HOME ASSESSMENT FOR AT-RISK CHILDREN• IN-COMMUNITY AND IN-HOME THERAPEUTIC SERVICES• INTENSIVE IN-COMMUNITY COUNSELORS• BEHAVIORAL ASSISTANTS/MENTORING SERVICES• OUTPATIENT PROVIDER REFERRALS/HANDOFF• TAILORED TREATMENT MODALITIES• SCHOOL BASED THERAPEUTIC SERVICES• SPECIALIZED TRAINING FOR CLINICIANS AND EDUCATORS• SPECIALTY GROUP THERAPY PROGRAMS• ARC GROW TRAUMA INFORMED PARENTING PROGRAM• NURTURED HEART TRAINING• LEGACY CLINICAL COMMUNITY NAVIGATORS
ARC-GROW
ARC is organized around three primary domains of intervention, and identifies 8 key treatment targets. These domains and targets are briefly described below.
• Attachment. The framework focuses on strengthening the caregiving system surrounding children through enhancing supports, skills, and relational resources for adult caregivers. In many families and systems we work with, caregivers as well as children have been exposed to multiple stressors and traumatic experiences. Even in caregiving systems that have experienced little or no prior adversity, the effect of a child’s relational trauma is likely to impact ongoing attachment relationships. Caregiver supports and the caregiver-child relationship are addressed through an emphasis on three primary targets:
o (1) Supporting caregivers in recognizing, understanding, accepting, and managing their own emotional and physiological responses, particularly as relates to and impacts parenting or child-care;
o (2) Enhancing rhythm and reciprocity in the caregiver-child relationship, and helping caregivers deepen their understanding of child behavior; and
o (3) Building effective, trauma-informed responses to child and adolescent behavior
ARC-GROWRegulation. Many young people who experience trauma are referred for treatment services or struggle in settings like school as a result of difficult behaviors, out of control emotions, and impulsive or disorganized bodies. Underlying these challenges is often a difficulty with regulation – of feelings, of thoughts, and of physical experience. Treatment emphasizes cultivating youth awareness and skill in identifying, understanding, tolerating, and managing internal experience. Regulation is addressed through
• (1) Supporting youth in developing an awareness and understanding of feelings, body states, and associated thoughts and behaviors;
• (2) Helping youth develop increased capacity to tolerate and manage physiological and emotional experience; and
• (3) Enhancing tolerance for and skill in building relational connection.
Kinniburgh, Blaustein, Blodgett, & Shibel (2012). Application of the ARC Framework as a parent home visiting
program. Spokane, WA: WSU Area Health Education Center in association with K. Kinniburgh and M. Blaustein.
ARC-GROWCompetency. The framework addresses key factors associated with resiliencein stress-impacted populations. A goal of intervention utilizing ARC is to go beyond pathology reduction, and to increase positive / resilient outcomes among youth receiving intervention. Competency goals include
• (1) Increasing opportunity for choice and empowerment, and skill in recognizing choice points and in effective decision-making; and
• (2) Identification and exploration of a range of aspects of self and identity, and building coherence through development of narrative around key life experiences, including traumatic exposures.
• Woven throughout the ARC approach is an emphasis on engagement (why does this goal matter?), psychoeducation (why are we doing this?), and routine (what can I expect?).
• ARC’s ultimate goal is support children, adolescents, and caregivers in effective engagement in the world, in a manner that is empowered and future-oriented , rather than focused on survival.
Kinniburgh, Blaustein, Blodgett, & Shibel (2012). Application of the ARC Framework as a parent home visiting program. Spokane, WA: WSU Area Health Education Center in association with K. Kinniburgh and M. Blaustein.
A Snapshot of NHA
• The Nurtured Heart Approach® (NHA) is more than just a parenting or educator behavior management strategy. It is a philosophy for creating healthy relationships with the people in your life. Originally created by Howard Glasser in 1992, NHA is being successfully implemented through families, classrooms, foster care, health care professionals, social workers and criminal justice organizations that are seeking successful, early intervention techniques.
• The Nurtured Heart Approach consists of a set of strategies that assists children in further developing their self-regulation and has been found effective with children of all ages. It focuses on transforming the way children perceive themselves, their caregivers and the world around them. Children learn to understand that they will receive endless amounts of praise, energy, recognition and reward through the positive behavior they display and this supports children to build a positive portfolio of themselves, which we call “Inner Wealth™.”
• Intensity is key to Nurtured Heart Approach thinking. Unfortunately the word intensity has negative associations in our society and teachers, parents and childcare workers can view it as the enemy. In Nurtured Heart Approach® thinking we believe intensity is a powerful quality that, if developed correctly, can propel children onto amazing achievements. When a child learns to feel great about their intensity, the incidents of challenging behavior dissolve.
Nurtured Heart Approach
The Nurtured Heart Approach is a relationship methodology founded strategically in “the 3 stands” for helping children and adults build their inner wealth.
• Stand 1: ABSOLUTELY NO! I refuse to give my time, energy and relationship to negative behavior. I will not accidentally foster failure nor will I reward problems by responding to them in animated ways. I will save my time and energy for searching for success.
• Stand 2: ABSOLUTELY YES! I will relentlessly and strategically pull the child into new patterns of success. I will constantly recognize the success and achievement that children are displaying no matter how small and present them with clear undeniable evidence of their value and how great they are.
• Stand 3: ABSOLUTELY CLEAR! I will have clear and consistent consequences for children when a rule has been broken. “Here are the rules, and here’s what happens when you break a rule.”
Copyright: 2017 Howard Glasser | www.ChildrensSuccessFoundation.com
Legacy Clinical Community NavigatorsAccording to Youth.gov:
• “Mentally healthy students are more likely to go to school ready to learn, actively engage in school activities, have supportive and caring connections with adults and young people, use appropriate problem solving skills, have non-aggressive behaviors, and add to positive school culture.”
• “A study by the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Adolescent Health indicated that adolescents are more comfortable accessing health care services through school based clinics and like the idea of accessing a range of health and social services in a single location.”
Legacy Clinical Community Navigators
• Clinical Biopsychosocial Assessments and Treatment Recommendations
• Provide or transition:• Individual, Group, Family Therapy
and/or Parenting
• Crisis Intervention• Behavior Management and
Modification• Specialty Group Therapy
Programs• Child Study Team Consultation
and Support
• Staff Support and Trainings• Extensive Case Management and
Referrals• Parenting Programs/Support
Groups• Student Support Groups• Suicide Prevention• Anti Bullying Programs• Violence Prevention• Early Intervention Services and
Education
