Inner Courage Counseling

"I work at a school and professionally collaborating with ICC has been great. They've been responsive to our needs and are very educated on the mental health needs of adolescents and young adults. I'm very pleased!"

"The owners of Inner Courage Counseling are dedicated and passionate about providing clients and families with the very best clinical services. Their practice stands on the grounds of ethics, always putting client needs first. They truly have created a practice where every single client can feel safe to be their most true, vulnerable selves."

"My son, at the time who was receiving private occupational services, needed additional supports with self-regulation. I also needed parenting strategies to address behavior. Our Occupational Therapist recommended Inner Courage Counseling, which was coincidentally down the street. My son began seeing Amy Jeffers in the late summer/early fall of 2021. However, as much as I brought up the behavioral concerns that we were seeing at home (including aggression towards me, and some very serious threats of bodily harm), I received NO strategies. (She sent me a total of two reference sheets, including the "4 Functions of Behavior" and an Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence tracking chart.) I'm a special education teacher, with 16 years of experience and MA's under my belt, and what she sent me was something that we covered in undergrad Special Education 101. I begged Amy for strategies, because everything in my own toolbox simply wasn't working. I gave situational examples, explained how I approached the behaviors, and asked what I could do to address repeat incidences. Time after time, she neglected to give me any meaningful strategies. The tipping point was when she proclaimed that I didn't need strategies; that I simply "need(ed) to develop a relationship with (your) son." WELL, NO KIDDING. We're working on our relationship, obviously. But I need STRATEGIES to address the behavior aspect. She also suggested that I hire a babysitter and go out more sans kids, despite my explaining to her (1) I am on a budget, and that is not always feasible; (2) When I return home after having a babysitter, my children's behavior escalates. So, it's not worth the cost and aggravation unless it's for something necessary (i.e. a doctor's appointment). I ended up finally cancelling our appointments so that we could look for help elsewhere. Why would I continue to waste our precious time and money (that I had to carefully budget) with no result??? I verbally explained the above reasons that I was dissatisfied, and then sent a brief email to Amy discontinuing services. She wrote out a lengthy reply and explanation of her reasoning for not providing the requested strategies. It took some time, but we have FINALLY found a good counselor elsewhere who is perceptive, has identified the problem behaviors, has witnessed the problem behaviors herself, and continually talks through strategies with me, or provides resources to me. She also provides activity/worksheet extensions that my child and I can do at home."

"ICC is Simply Awesome!"