Mental Health Counseling
Whether you are struggling with stress, relationships with others or relationship with yourself.
There’s space for you here!
About Gail Williams Counseling
My Philosophy
With over 25 years of experience working in the mental health field, there are three things I hold to be true.
- Everything comes down to the relationship that can be developed between you and a therapist. It is through the relationship that change can take place. If you aren’t feeling comfortable, then you will not share in a manner that promotes healing. If you don’t think you can feel comfortable with me, then I’m not the therapist for you and that’s OK! I WANT you to find a good match as that’s where I believe true change can take place.
- YOU are the expert on you! I can be an expert on processes, skills and tools. But you know yourself best, even if you need help in uncovering what you want and need. MY job is to lay out the options to assist you in achieving your goals. Together, we will move toward health and healing.
- We often blame ourselves saying we could have done better. I believe we did the best we could at the time. We can learn and grow in order to do better but I don’t ever think people aren’t doing their best.
My Services
Mental Health Therapy Services available to
- Individuals 18 and older
Mental Health issues that CAN be addressed in office or teleheath
- Adjusting to new life circumstances
- Anger
- Anxiety/Panic
- Depression/Mood
- Reactions to Severe Stress
- Stress
- Trauma
Mental health issues I CAN'T address as they are outside of my scope of practice
- ADHD
- Autism
- Court/Expert Witness
- Eating Disorders
- Substance use disorders as primary focus of therapy
- Psychological Testing
My Approach
My approach is eclectic, tailoring each person's unique needs to the appropriate modality. Those listed below are my most common methods.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)-Learning how to notice negative automatic thoughts/cognitive distortions/irrational
thoughts and balance/change these thoughts in order to change emotions and behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Skills Training (DBT Skills NOT DBT Therapy). There are 4 components to skills training including Core Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation and Distress Tolerance. Even though these skills were developed for those that struggle with suicidality and behaviors associated with borderline personality disorder, I believe, these are basic life skills and we all can benefit.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). This therapy is used to assist people remembering painful events without reliving/feeing in the present, the pain of those events.
Person Centered Therapy/Humanistic—I provide respect and unconditional positive regard in order to promote growth and health.
Contact Us
Gail Williams, PLLC
749 South 30th Street #17, Grand Forks, North Dakota 58201, United States
Hours
Open today | 08:00 am – 06:30 pm |
Gail Williams, PLLC does not provide Crisis Services
In case of a mental health emergency
- Call 988
- Text “HOME” to 741741
- Go to a local emergency department
