Matters of the Heart Counseling provides comprehensive, lifespan-focused mental health services designed to support individuals, couples, and families through every stage of life. The practice combines evidence-based therapeutic modalities with a compassionate, non-judgmental environment to promote healing, emotional growth, and long-term resilience.

Core Areas of Care

• Child & Adolescent Counseling: Specialized care addressing childhood anxiety, behavioral challenges, academic stress, peer dynamics, and self-esteem through engaging, age-appropriate methods like play and expressive arts therapy.

• Adult Psychotherapy: Tailored support for individuals navigating life transitions, career burnout, clinical anxiety, depression, relationship distress, and trauma recovery.

Healing isn't just emotional; it’s physiological. We provide biofeedback (Heart Rate Variability and HEG/PIR Neurofeedback) therapy an innovative treatment that helps individuals and family members regulate stress, manage anxiety, and train the body’s nervous system to respond to life with calm and resilience rather than reactivity.  Biofeedback is a non medication based holistic approach to mental health we encourage and support.

No family should have to navigate difficult seasons alone. Adoption is hard and families often feel alone in the journey. We offer wraparound resources designed to equip and encourage every member of the household:

• Support Groups: Safe, facilitated spaces to share experiences, reduce isolation, and build community with others walking a similar path.

• 1-on-1 Coaching: Practical, goal-oriented guidance to help adoptive parents, adult adoptees, and couples.  Elaine Shenk is our Adoption Program Director and is trained in TBRI and an adoptive parent. 

• Family Education: Workshops and seminars covering crucial topics like communication, conflict resolution, emotional regulation, and neurodiversity support.