Services and Specialites
At J. Higgins Counseling, we provide specialized, in-person and online therapy services to adults near Buffalo, NY, tailored to the unique needs of navigating anxiety, trauma and stress. Our goal is to create a safe, supportive environment where real healing can begin.
Individual Psychotherapy for Adults
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.
Anxiety Therapy
Learn tools to manage overthinking, panic, and chronic stress with evidence-based strategies that help you feel more grounded and in control.
Trauma and PTSD Therapy
Using approaches like EMDR Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), we help you process past trauma and reclaim your life with resilience.
Therapy for First Responders
Support for trauma, cumulative stress, and emotional burnout with sensitivity to the first responder mindset. This includes brief therapy following a critical incident.
As a first responder, you’re trained to stay calm under pressure, make life-saving decisions, and show up for others—even in the most extreme situations. But over time, the weight of what you witness and carry can start to take a toll.
At J. Higgins Counseling, we offer trauma-informed therapy for first responders in and around Buffalo, NY, with a deep respect for the courage, complexity, and sacrifice that comes with your work.
Therapy for additional cognitive, emotional and behavioral challenges including but not limited to:
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- Depression
- Grief & Loss
- Stress & Burnout
- Self-esteem & Identity Issues
- Life transitions
- Sleep problems
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.
Approaches and Affiliations
A variety of evidence-based therapy services for adults near Buffalo, NY are available to help you make positive changes and enhance your quality of life. J. Higgins Counseling offers expertise in a group of complementary therapy models. When used together, in service of your personalized goals, they create a powerful synergy.
ACT
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a mindfulness based therapy designed to enhance psychological flexibility.
- Learn to be more present
- Develop the ability to observe your inner experience
- Experiential in nature so uses lots of metaphors and real-life examples
- Enhance willingness and acceptance
- Build skills to disentangle yourself from thoughts and emotions that leave you feeling stuck
- Clarify your values and align your goals accordingly
DBT
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a skills training program that anyone can benefit from.
- Develop mindfulness skills to enhance self-awareness of thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations
- Learn to get through the most difficult situations without making things worse
- Learn about emotions and how to make them work for you, rather than against you
- Decrease vulnerability to unwanted emotions
- Learn how to shape emotional responses
- Enhance your ability to do what works when it comes to interacting with other people
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
- Originally developed for PTSD, EMDR can be used to heal from a broad range of challenges
- Helps the brain process stressful memories and allows normal healing to resume
- Changes relationship with the memories, not the memories themselves
- Has been extensively researched
- Typically requires 60-minute sessions
- Efficient and effective
SCHEMA
Schema Therapy:
- Schema is short for Early Mal-adaptive Schema
- Schemas are core beliefs we hold about ourselves, the world, and how we relate to others
- Learn to identify relevant Schemas, their origins, and their activating triggers
- Learn how to respond more effectively when Schemas are triggered
- Works well in combination with ACT so we do not get stuck in patterns of Schema thoughts
- Works well in combination with EMDR which can reprocess the memories underlying mal-adaptive Schemas
Law Enforcement and other First Responders
J. Higgins Counseling specializes in treatment for:
- Law Enforcement Officers
- Firefighters
- Emergency Medical Services personnel
- Other First Responders
Affiliations
J. Higgins Counseling is affiliated with:
- Western New York Trauma Collaborative
- Western New York Trauma Recovery Network