The Individual and Family CHOICES Program
Making the world a better place....one person, one family at a time.
What Is It?
The Individual and Family CHOICES Program is an newly developing innovative group of practitioners providing services located in central Pennsylvania, aimed at the comprehensive treatment and healing for individuals and families who have been affected by trauma, depression, conflict, and many other issues. The name of our organization is quite unusual and long but there are reasons for this that we feel are important to explain. Once you read over our reasons we hope that you will be as excited as we are in bringing this new program to Central PA!
What's in a Name?
The Individual 
Each human being is first and foremost an individual unto one's self with unique needs, characteristics, values, cultural identities, talents and strengths.
And Family
Every Individual is also someone's mother or father, brother or sister, daughter or son, grandchild or grandparent, aunt or uncle, nephew or niece. Every human being is a part of a family and the struggle of one family member results in a struggle for the entire family. The family unit forms the basic foundation of every society. A society is only as healthy as the families that form it. When we help to build healthier families, we help the world become a better place.
CHOICES* Program
Presenting individuals and families in need with choices and options speaks to the right of every individual to have power over oneself and to engage in self-determination. Providing alternatives speaks to the eternal and limitless variability that encompasses each individual and therefore also each family. There is no "one size fits all" when it comes to ministering to wounded families or individuals.
Center for
We believe individuals and families are better served when the many alternatives and options available to them are under one roof and where the services provided are done in a collaborative and multifaceted fashion. We also believe that when the issues include trauma, that a trauma informed treatment approach is best. Our professionals have specialized training in trauma informed approaches to healing for individuals, and their families.
Holistic Options and
The holistic choices we provide our clients include:
Integrated Counseling
The best of the tried and true forms of individual therapy (such as CBT, DBT and Emotion Focused Therapy), couple and family therapy (such as Systemic Couple and Family Therapy, Multi-Systemic Family and Solution Focused Family Therapy), and group therapy will be offerings at CHOICES, but also, we will provide those cutting edge strategies that have some empirical support such as Attachment Focused Family Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing, Neurofeedback, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Hypnotherapy, and more integrated with our holistic options for comprehensive care.
For Empowering Selves
We are awake and aware that in addition to our family of origin and our family of present each of us has a family of aspects or Parts within ourselves that need to be empowered, honored, listened to and understood, and that often, care and functionality in the present family can only remain that way if each individual of that family has also honored, nurtured, and loved one's Self and all aspects or Parts, as well. These beliefs reflect a foundational model of our program starting from top management through to our entire staff. This model is reflected in our collegial respect for each other's personhood and competencies. This respect then extends into the sacred relationships we share with our clients and the families we work with. This model known as Internal Family Systems was developed by Richard Schwartz PhD, Marriage and Family Therapist.
