Family Diabetes Counseling
Families dealing with diabetes face a unique set of issues. Lifestyle changes that accompany this diagnosis can be frightening, stressful and often seem overwhelming. This stress affects not only the child but the entire family. Kristi Frye, Ph.D., is distinctly qualified to work with children and families with diabetes due to her own early childhood diagnosis. Adjusting to life with diabetes throughout childhood, adolescence and into adulthood gives her a unique perspective that enhances the counseling process. Counseling can assist families in dealing with the issues encountered during the adjustment to life with diabetes. Early intervention can lessen the emotional impact of the transition to this new lifestyle.

Individual Therapy
Counseling is a process that allows clients to explore thoughts, feelings and beliefs about themselves and other people. The therapeutic relationship between counselor and client encourages self-exploration and seeks to promote change in beliefs, attitudes, and behavior. The ultimate goal of counseling is to ensure that each client experience success and fulfillment in everyday life.

Couples Therapy
Relationships are multi faceted and for some couples life has become overwhelmingly complicated. Couples therapy can address communication issues, differences in value systems, beliefs and goals, trust, parenting and conflict management.

Family Divorce Counseling
The decision to get a divorce is a difficult one that can have lasting effects on the entire family. Separation, visitation, custody issues and parental conflict impact both children and parents alike. Children need to express their feelings about the divorce and work on adjusting to the new family situation. Parents learn to work together and communicate more effectively to facilitate a healthy familial adjustment. Counseling can assist all family members in coping with these and other issues related to divorce.

Play Therapy
Children are often unable to recognize and communicate their feelings and issues in traditional talk therapy. Play therapy gives children the opportunity to express feelings through play that they are often unable to recognize and verbalize. Understanding the natural language of children allows Dr. Frye to address a variety of issues, as well as to assist parents in understanding how their child is coping and customize a plan of intervention and behavior modification.

Adolescent Counseling
Teenagers today face extraordinary challenges. Dealing with diabetes, other chronic illness, parents who are divorced or are divorcing, peer pressure and other issues of socialization can lead to depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, poor school performance, substance abuse, sexual acting out or difficulty with anger management.
Counseling with a therapist who understands the pressures of their world can assist with the issues faced by adolescents today.

Filial Therapy
Also known as parent-child relationship therapy, filial is a form of family therapy designed to strenghten the bond between parents and children. Parents learn to better understand and communicate in the natural language of children deepening the connection between parent and child.

Filial Therapy can be helpful for addressing adoption issues, attachment disorders, parent alienation and chronic illness. Dr. Frye has successfully utilized it in cases involving adoption and divorce as well as with intact family systems.