High Quality 

Effective

Mental Health Care

Buffalo-Niagara Falls Metropolitan Area

How We Help

J. Higgins Counseling provides psychotherapy services to help individuals address anxiety, depressionPTSD and other cognitive, emotional and behavioral issues.

We offer in-person and online evidence-based strategies to help you clarify your goals and navigate your path forward.

You are the hero of your own story. We are committed to helping you break free from suffering to live a rich and fulfilling life.

 

Get started with your first appointment!

Insurances Accepted by
J. Higgins Counseling:

  • Independent Health (including Nova)
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield (Highmark, Anthem, FEP Blue & others)
  • Univera
  • Aetna (including Meritain)
  • Out-of-network benefits of others

Insurances Not Accepted:

  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare Advantage plans
  • Medicaid Managed Care plans 

Coverage varies by therapist

J. Higgins Counseling Specialties & Affiliations

Therapeutic Services to Treat:

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • PTSD
  • Law Enforcement & other First Responders
  • Acute Stress Following a Critical Incident

We offer interventions including:

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
  • Schema Therapy

We are affiliated with:

  • Western New York Trauma Collaborative
  • Western New York Trauma Recovery Network

Our Unique Approach

We offer a unique combination of therapeutic approaches designed to help you develop effective new strategies, enhance self-awareness and move forward in your life.

Our service provision is rooted in values including personal growth and development, trust, character, integrity, family, community, kindness, generosity, respect, privacy and freedom.

Skills

Learn how to be more mindful, tolerate stress, reduce emotional vulnerability and improve communication.

Insight

Examine your core beliefs, where they come from, and how they shape the way you feel and relate to others.

Action

Live your life in harmony with what is most important to you. Learn how to set yourself free, with a sense of confidence and mastery.

What People Are Saying

Break free from suffering – live a rich and fulfilling life.

Life can feel like a balancing act

Do you ever find yourself imagining and worrying about unpleasant futures with anxiety, fear and foreboding? Or find yourself dwelling on or reliving events from the past? What about comparing, judging and criticizing yourself or those around you? Maybe creating rules for yourself that feel restrictive and limiting?

Stuck, not broken

You may have tried to solve these problems by getting rid of them, avoiding them, outsmarting them, or overpowering them. However, it does not work in the psychological world of thoughts, feelings, memories, sensations, and urges. When we try this, we often end up feeling stuck, feeling like things will never change, and feeling like we cannot do anything about it.

Discover your path forward

You can break free from this struggle by being present, opening up to your experience and doing what matters. Live a vital life filled with meaning, fulfillment and satisfaction. Accept yourself and others, clarify what you care deeply about and live in harmony with your values.

Break free from suffering, live a rich and fulfilling life.

Balancing rocks on beach

Life can feel like a balancing act

Do you ever find yourself imagining and worrying about unpleasant futures with anxiety, fear and foreboding? Or find yourself dwelling on or reliving events from the past? What about comparing, judging and criticizing yourself or those around you? Maybe creating rules for yourself that feel restrictive and limiting?

Sunlight shining in woods

Stuck, not broken

You may have tried to solve these problems by getting rid of them, avoiding them, outsmarting them, or overpowering them. However, it does’t work in the psychological world of thoughts, feelings, memories, sensations, and urges. When we try this, we often end up feeling stuck, feeling like things will never change, and feeling like we cannot do anything about it.

Man on peak of mountain

Discover your path forward

You can break free from this struggle by being present, opening up to your experience and doing what matters. Live a vital life filled with meaning, fulfillment and satisfaction. Accept yourself and others, clarify what you care deeply about and live in harmony with your values.

Mental Health Counseling Near Buffalo, NY

Located within 20 minutes of:

  • Buffalo, NY
  • North Buffalo, NY
  • Amherst, NY,
  • East Amherst, NY
  • Williamsville, NY
  • Kenmore, NY
  • Tonawanda, NY
  • North Tonawanda, NY
  • Wheatfield, NY
  • Pendleton, NY
  • Grand Island, NY
  • Niagara Falls, NY
  • Cheektowaga, NY