Life is hard. Sometimes it’s confusing and gets more difficult than what you feel you can handle. Understanding why you feel the way you feel is important to healing.

The Clinical Counseling clinicians at GrowthSpirit are licensed to diagnose and treat mental and emotional disorders. We provide quality treatment for children, adolescents and adults. At GrowthSpirit we will provide initial assessment and ongoing treatment for many psychological health issues.

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Grief and loss
• Trauma recovery
• Complications arising from health problems
• Anger Management
• Stress Management

• Assessment and evaluation for adults and children

Do you still feel depressed or anxious despite taking medication?

Get a complete picture of how your brain chemistry is impacting your mood and life. Using sophisticated neurotransmitter testing, we are easily able to measure critical biomarkers to determine your balancing needs and offer appropriate adjustments. Clients who take advantage of this cutting edge technology see dramatic shifts in improved physical and emotional well-being.

Marriage and family relationships present unique challenges. GrowthSpirit Executive Director, Dr. Stephen Boyd believes that a focused effort on repairing the couple’s relationship first is vital to successful family relationships.

Dr. Boyd utilizes a proven assessment process that helps couples grow more quickly. This unique strategy for working with couples involves a three phase research based assessment and intervention process designed to restore intimacy and repair injuries in your marriage. The assessment process allows couples to see the patterns that are weakening their relationship and find hope for repairing their marriage. Couples who complete this process have outstanding and long lasting results and are well positioned to improve their family relationships.

When your relationships are in jeopardy you want to work with specialists who are trained and experienced in family counseling & strengthening family dynamics. The licensed clinicians at GrowthSpirit have completed graduate studies in Marriage and Family Therapy and operate from a family systems perspective to help families achieve harmony.

• Communication
• Conflict resolution
• Financial intimacy
• Sexual intimacy / Infidelity
• Role relationship
• Parenting
• Spiritual intimacy
• Court ordered custody evaluations
• Assessment and evaluation for adults and children
• Premarital couples counseling

Mediation through Collaborative Law for Couples
Collaborative law is a team approach to assisting couples as they dissolve their marriage. This team includes a family relations specialist / coach, divorce lawyer(s) and a financial specialist. GrowthSpirit executive director, Dr. Stephen Boyd, is a family relationships specialist who works as part of the collaborative law team. He is trained in divorce mediation and will help ensure the process is effective and satisfactory for all parties.

Assessment are powerful, life-changing tools. They can uncover the nature of your unique strengths! They can also reveal the source of your hidden struggles. Understanding both allows you to choose to focus your strengths and become the best version of yourself.

We incorporate the following assessments in evaluations for adults and children.

• Couple Assessment Process: A three phase process to help couples grow more quickly
• Neurotransmitter testing or biomarkers to measure levels of neurotransmitters and how they correlate to wellness, anxiety, depression, focusing, hyperactivity and mood swings.
• IDAK Career Match for career decision making and transitioning. Useful for young people transitioning to college or adults interesting in learning where their natural skills and talents lie or for mid-life transitions when unhappy with current career. See Dr. Boyd’s IDAK profile here.
• Increase your EQ, or Emotional Intelligence, by learning how to implement changes in your personal or business life.
• Measure Spiritual Intelligence, SQ, to gain awareness in your spiritual life to identify areas for growth. We incorporate this into Spiritual Direction.
• Myers Briggs Type Indicator, measuring psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. Use this personality assessment for teams, couples, and for individuals related to career preferences or learning how to interact with others.
• We incorporate testing for personality patterns in our evaluation for adults and children.

You want more out of life and are motivated to make changes. But what changes to make? Personal Growth Counseling will help you to clarify and attain your personal and professional goals.

• Assessment and reports on emotional and spiritual intelligence for workplace or individual growth areas
• Increase your self-awareness through the GrowthSpirit assessment process
• Career counseling with a certified IDAK coach. You can view Dr. Boyd’s IDAK profile here.

The Wellness Plan Package is three consultation sessions that include a wellness interview, multi-domain wellness assessment, wellness assessment analysis, goal development consultation, and suggesting resources for you to implement your goals.

Through the personal growth and wellness process, you will find peace in your past, present and future.

Your spiritual life is central to who you are and where you are going. Would you benefit from a spiritual companion that will accompany you on your life’s journey? Discernment, prayer and deep listening within are shared during times of spiritual direction.

Enjoy spiritual companionship and mentoring through a faith based approach. As a spiritual director, Dr. Boyd works to increase your awareness of your spiritual intelligence by working with you consistently through a process of learning how to hear and follow the prompting of the Holy Spirit within you.

• Discover retreats in everyday life. Learn to find moments of peace while going about the ordinary routine of daily life.
• Become familiar with God’s movement within you through prayer and reflection.
• Come to know your deepest desires and learn to discern movements of desolation and consolation within your daily life.
• Enhance your prayer life, and a deep sense of being loved.
• We may include, as requested, inner healing prayer at the end of each session.
• We provide Life in the Spirit Seminars for those that would like training in the spirit filled life.

Family businesses have a unique set of relational dynamics. These relationships can be assets or liabilities. Communication between family members is a pivotal point to the future success of a family-owned business.

Business Family Consulting will improve family communication and business decision through the use of organizational assessments and emotional intelligence profiles within the work setting. Providing assistance and guidance through many different types of challenges is another benefit of Business Family Consulting. For family-owned businesses to succeed through transitions, communication is the key.

Are you a leader for a business or organization? Do you feel like, as that leader, there is something more you can do for the people who are following you? Growth coaching for leaders helps you do all of that and more. Through this process we will help you grow into your leadership position and be the best leader you can be by partnering with you and being a person of support to help you create new ideas or new ways to help the company go forward or progress in a way that you see fit. All of this happens by focusing on the growth areas of the president or the leaders of the business/team which in turn helps the overall business or group. We use testing to measure emotional intelligence and personality factors to pinpoint growth areas of the leaders within the organization.

Have you ever envisioned a dream manager or being one? Another aspect of the Growth Coaching for Leaders focuses on the leaders dreams for the business, personal life, and professional life to more positively affect the company.

Seminars are also offered by the GrowthSpirit Counseling Centers for the employees of a business on different aspects such as: conflict resolution, communication skills, and different team building exercises. We include assessments for emotional intelligence within teams through team reports that measure how the team works together emotionally within their group.