Sometimes, life can get a little overwhelming. Whether it's stress at work, problems at home, or you just haven't been feeling like yourself, counseling can help. Counseling can help you cope with and resolve many different kinds of problems. Counseling can also help you learn about yourself, help you make difficult decisions, and improve your quality of life and overall health.

Are you living your best life? Is there a habit you’d like to break? A problem you’d like to solve? An area of your life you’d like to improve? That’s what therapy is all about! Together, we can get you back on the road to wellness, and help you maximize your potential!

Individual counseling facilitates the exploration and resolution of personal problems and issues according to the specific needs of the individual. Some of the issues often addressed in individual counseling are:

Group psychotherapy is a special form of therapy in which a small number of people meet together under the guidance of a professionally trained therapist to help themselves and one another. Group therapy helps people learn about themselves and improve their interpersonal relationships. It addresses feelings of isolation, depression or anxiety. And it helps people make significant changes so they feel better about the quality of their lives.

Imagine having someone who is not only capable of understanding you but also skilled at ensuring your untapped potential is achieved.

Parenting is a tough job. The toughest around!  Plus, for most of us, our kids didn’t come with instructions. Parent Coaching sessions are your live, interactive, instruction manual for raising happy, healthy, well-behaved children. Using techniques derived from child development research and psychological science, we will teach you how to adjust your parenting style to get better results, improve both your children’s self-esteem and their behavior.

Our therapists are experienced at teaching children techniques to reduce inattention and increase calm and focus. In addition, our therapists work with parents to help the better understand hyperactive behaviors, respond to them effectively, and implement behavior modification programs in the home.

Addictions are amongst the most difficult problems to treat. However, we believe that treatment ineffectiveness is often due to modes of treatment that utilize a “one size fits all” model. In contrast, our practice employs a “client fit” approach to treatment. This means that we take extra time and care to identify the root causes of each individual’s need for substance use, and employ treatment techniques that are a good fit both for the client’s personality and the underlying causes of their addiction.

Adolescence can be a tough time for both teenagers and parents!  Our experienced therapists will work with you and your family to improve communication, reduce conflicts, reduce defiance, improve academic performance, improve parent’s understanding of teenagers, decrease isolation and emotional problems, and bring peace to your home. We are also skilled in treating specific adolescent issues such as substance abuse, self-injurious behaviors (e.g. cutting), depression, anxiety, and assisting teenagers with divorce transition.

Many mothers feel overwhelmed, disappointed, alone, or scared after the birth of a child. These feelings happen for a variety of reasons, including hormonal changes. However, other non-biological causes contribute to the development of negative emotions in the post-partum period. Ms. Gagnon is a researcher in the area of maternal depression and has a keen understanding of the factors that contribute to post-partum blues and depression. She offers both individual and group therapy for post-partum difficulties, and works to eliminate feelings of depression, isolation, and stress.

Sometimes we just need to talk among girls! Available in both individual therapy and support group format, our services that focus on an understanding and appreciation of the complex lives of women may be just what you need to overcome your depression, improve your career, get to know yourself better, and learn to balance it all!

Whether you decide to come in alone or with your partner, our compassionate therapists can help you make sense of your relationship problems, figure out what you want to do next, improve your relationship, or learn to move on.

Often, individuals who are involved in car accidents experience psychological problems such as panic attacks, difficulty concentrating, depression, or have to cope with living in physical pain. We provide mental health assessment reports and expert witness testimony to attorneys for personal injury cases. When contracted by an attorney, Chantal M. Gagnon & Associates will work under a letter of protection. Please contact us for details.

Our practice provides court-ordered counseling services for mental health issues, substance abuse, domestic violence, anger management, and parenting strategies. We develop comprehensive, inter-disciplinary competency restoration treatment plans for individuals adjusted incompetent to stand trial. Please call us for additional details on your specific case.