Welcome to Embridge Counseling Services!

Embracing Life – Surviving The Struggle by Learning to Embrace the Experience by Emeka Aniyam

The word “embrace” originates from the Latin term “bracchim” and is referred to as “embracer” in Old French. Embrace means to encircle, surround, enclose. How in much of our lives we embrace certain things we love and places. However, many parts of our lives’ circumstances we do not embrace, such as feelings we do not accept, circumstances we reject entirely. In fact, there are certain situations or conditions our society frowns upon that are utterly unacceptable, such as bullying, racism, terrorism and illegal activities. In some cases, due to high expectations and pressures from our society, some tend to violate their own morals by embracing morals that contradict their own, just because our society says to. Sometimes, in some situations, we also allow some individuals to determine what we should or should not embrace in our lives. Allowing others to have total control over oneself could stem from many areas of life, including how one was brought up and changes made along the way.

• Read the Interview by Writer’s Life Magazine
• Read the interview (Groundbreaking Therapy Book That Elaborates on Ego Psychologist Erik Erikson’s Work) by Monica Fiera about my book Embracing Life. Monica Viera is an author, screenwriter, journalist, and poet living in Los Angeles.
• The Heart-Mind Alliance: Find Your Core Values and Let Them Guide You at Work

People seek mental health therapy for various reasons. Whatever the drive is, it takes courage to enroll in therapy, and it takes dedication to see it through. Embridge Counseling Services provides support and encouragement throughout the therapeutic process. We strive to focus on one’s individual strengths as opposed to their weaknesses. Our therapists create unique treatment plans for children, adolescents, adults, families and seniors who are facing emotional challenges and hardships in their lives. 
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Embridge Counseling Services are provided on a weekly basis in any setting where the individual/family is naturally located, including, but not limited to, the home, a foster home, school, child care settings, and other community settings. Services are intensive and flexible to meet the needs of the families. Our in-home psychotherapy services are quick to identify the maladaptive behaviors and work toward resolving these issues. Interventions, such as strategic, structural, psychoanalytic, solution focused, cognitive behavioral, play therapy, art, narrative, etc., are designed to enhance and improve the individual/family’s functioning in the home and community, thereby eliminating these behaviors.
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