Our Therapy Services

Professional Psychological Care

What is psychotherapy?

At Wooten and Associates, PLC, we see psychotherapy as a safe and supportive space where you can explore your thoughts, emotions, and experiences with a trained professional who truly listens and cares. Life can be overwhelming at times, and you don’t have to face those challenges alone.

Think of psychotherapy as a personalized journey toward understanding yourself better, managing life’s stressors, and finding new ways to navigate relationships, work, and personal growth. It’s not about fixing you because you’re not broken—it’s about helping you uncover your strengths, build resilience, and create a life that feels more balanced and fulfilling.

Our therapists are here to meet you where you are, whether you’re feeling stuck, experiencing anxiety, working through grief, or simply wanting to prioritize your mental health. At Wooten and Associates, PLC, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to thrive, and we are honored to walk alongside you in that journey.

It’s your story. Let’s work together to write the next chapter.

What is DBT?

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, is a type of therapy that helps people learn skills to better handle their emotions, improve relationships, and manage stress in healthier ways. It focuses on finding a balance between accepting things as they are and working toward meaningful change. DBT is particularly helpful for people who feel emotions very intensely or have difficulty controlling their reactions. It’s built around four main areas: mindfulness (staying present), distress tolerance (coping with crises), emotion regulation (managing feelings), and interpersonal effectiveness (communicating and setting boundaries). It’s a supportive and structured approach that empowers people to create a life they find worth living.

What is Perinatal Mental Health Care?

Perinatal mental health treatment refers to the care and support provided to individuals experiencing adjustment and mental health challenges during pre-conception, pregnancy (the prenatal period) and the first two years after childbirth (the postnatal or postpartum period). While this is often a happy time for many people, hormonal, physical, and emotional changes, and trauma can lead to mood and mental health difficulties. Some people experience anxiety, depression, and scary or difficult thoughts during this time. Sometimes things don’t go as expected or as hoped for. When these things happen, help is available, and therapy is an important component of treatment. Early intervention can not only help the pregnant and postpartum person to feel better but it also can improve the baby’s and family’s wellbeing during the prenatal period.

What is Somatic Processing?

Somatic processing is a therapeutic approach that emphasizes the connection between the mind and body to help individuals heal from trauma, stress, and emotional distress. It is based on the understanding that the body stores emotional and traumatic experiences, often manifesting as physical tension, discomfort, or illness. Key features of somatic processing include fostering body awareness, regulating the nervous system, releasing stored trauma, and integrating physical, emotional, and mental experiences for holistic healing. Techniques such as breathwork, somatic experiencing, mindful movement, touch therapy, and body scanning are commonly used to achieve these goals. This approach is beneficial for trauma recovery, anxiety, chronic pain, and emotional dysregulation, enhancing self-awareness, emotional regulation, and overall resilience. Often combined with other therapies like cognitive-behavioral or dialectical behavior therapy, somatic processing offers a comprehensive path to healing.

What is EMDR?

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a therapy technique that uses bilateral stimulation to help reduce symptoms related to distressing and traumatic experiences. EMDR is primarily used for Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. However, it can also be used for other mental health conditions. Memories from a traumatic event may become “stuck” in one’s brain, making the painful memory feel more intense. EMDR can help one’s brain “unstick” from the memory and return to the brain’s natural healing process thus allowing an individual to experience less intense and overwhelming reactions to the memory. In an EMDR session, you will be asked to think about the distressing memory while participating in activities such as eye movements, tapping movements, or listening to sounds. Engaging in these activities while focusing on the memory can help one’s brain process the memory in a calmer way that becomes less upsetting over time and encourages the brain to return to a healing state.

What is Ketamine Assisted Therapy

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is an emerging mental health treatment that combines the administration of Ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic, with psychotherapy to address various psychological conditions. Ketmine, when used in controlled, low doses, has been shown to induce neuroplasticity, alleviate symptoms of depression , anxiety, PTSD and other mood disorders, and provide a transformative, introspective experience. In KAP, patients receive Ketamine in a safe clinical setting under the supervision of a trained health care professional. The therapy, which occurs immediately following, focuses on harnessing the altered state of consciousness initiated by the Ketamine to explore emotions, memories and patterns of thought. This process helps patients gain new perspectives, resolve deep-seated traumas, and foster long-term mental health improvements. KAP offers promising results for individuals who have not responded to traditional treatments.

What happens in Couples Counseling?

Romantic relationships come in various forms and evolve through different seasons. Attending couples counseling offers partners the chance to establish a neutral space to discuss disagreements, life transitions, sexuality, supporting each other’s endeavors, child-rearing, finances, infidelity, communication, and overall intimacy. While couples counseling can help resolve conflicts, the key benefit lies in developing skills to learning to navigate the ongoing challenges of maintaining a healthy, fulfilling relationship. Common counseling approaches we use include Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), each utilizing distinct techniques to promote secure and thriving relationships. Couples counseling can benefit all types of romantic dynamics, regardless of age or the length of commitment. Let couples counseling strengthen your relationship foundation or help reshape its future.

What is a Psychological Evaluation used for?

Psychological evaluations are essential tools used by psychologists to understand an individual’s emotional, behavioral, and cognitive functioning. These evaluations help diagnose mental health conditions not limited to anxiety, depression, ADHD, and autism, and inform treatment plans tailored to an individual’s needs. They play a crucial role in legal cases, such as custody disputes, competency evaluations, and criminal cases. In educational settings, they identify learning disabilities, giftedness, and other educational needs. Additionally, workplace assessments use them to evaluate fit for specific job roles or accommodations. Psychological evaluations provide personal insight, helping individuals understand their behaviors, thoughts, and emotions through a combination of interviews, questionnaires, and standardized tests.

What is Multicultural Counseling?

We offer multicultural therapy that addresses our clients' diverse cultural backgrounds and identities of our clients within therapeutic practice. By recognizing and respecting the unique values, beliefs, and experiences of individuals from various cultural backgrounds, our practice aims to create an inclusive and supportive environment where clients feel understood and empowered. Through culturally sensitive interventions and dialogue, our therapists use therapeutic outcomes by promoting awareness, acceptance, and appreciation of cultural diversity while addressing mental health concerns and promoting overall well-being.

What is Christian Counseling?

Persons seeking faith-based counseling are respected at all times for their current spiritual decisions and choices. It is not the mission or purpose of this counseling to convert persons to the practice of a particular religion or spiritual discipline. It is intended to deepen one’s integration of spiritual understanding into their life as it is in the present moment and to strengthen practices that enable them to experience the resilience and resolve that spiritual insight provides.

In Christian counseling it is our mission to reflect the wisdom and willingness to be enlightened through the sacred scriptures in the therapeutic work while demonstrating professionally sound counseling practice. Goals in therapy always include encouraging faith, facilitating a personal relationship with God, comforting in times of distress, and seeking purposeful living for every client. Sound principles of practice from the field of psychology are used to support spiritual interventions and are not abandoned in the service of spiritual counsel. The explicit use of scripture or prayer in sessions is determined by the client/patient and never assumed.