Our Services

Our evidence-based approaches to care

Treatment Modalities

Our team of therapists specialize in evidence-based treatment modalities to personalize your care plan. Empowerment Counseling offers a number of treatment options to best suit your needs. If you're interested in what we treat, click here.

Individual Therapy

Couples Therapy

Addiction & Recovery Therapy

Family Therapy

Group Therapy

Individual Therapy

Individual therapy provides an empathetic environment to explore your treatment goals with a licensed professional. It provides a safe environment to process your past difficulties, explore common themes in your life, identify patterns, and assists with inspiring change. Individual therapy provides a framework to help create a more balanced life motivated by your specific values and increase your overall well-being.

How we can help:

  • Expand your support system

  • Help identify your goals

  • Obtain a better understanding of yourself

  • Assist in managing your emotions

  • Address past traumas

  • Decrease anxiety and depression

  • Increase self-esteem

  • Create healthier relationships

  • Discover a more purposeful, meaningful life

Couples Therapy

Romantic relationships can be difficult to navigate. Therefore, having a therapist help mediate conflict, address specific concerns, and create a safe space of mutual respect can be extremely helpful to both parties. Therapy allows you to gain a deeper understanding of your relationship dynamics and clarify your specific goals as a couple.

How we can help:

  • Improve communication

  • Identify triggers and unhealthy patterns

  • Enhance intimacy

  • Restore loss of trust

  • Decrease feelings of resentment

  • Create awareness of your partner’s perspective

  • Address conflict and specific roadblocks

  • Increase overall family satisfaction

Addiction & Recovery Therapy

Finding the motivation to change when it comes to addiction issues can be extremely challenging. Therefore, having a licensed professional that specializes in addiction can be vital to maintaining long term recovery. A therapist can assist you in helping you gain a better understanding in identifying your triggers, examining unhealthy patterns and problematic behaviors, exploring how best to gain control over your life, and recreate new meaning and purpose.

How we can help:

  • Identify motivation and readiness for change

  • Explore and recognize unhealthy patterns 

  • Increase self-control and awareness

  • Identify triggers 

  • Enhance healthy coping skills and strategies to maintain long-term sobriety 

  • Heal feelings of shame and guilt 

  • Improve interpersonal relationships 

  • Create a life of meaning and purpose 

  • Improve overall well-being, satisfaction and quality of life

Family Therapy

Family dynamics are complicated. Each and every family has their own family dynamics accompanied by specific roles associated with each family member. Family therapy can assist in decreasing conflict, improving empathy and understanding for each other, and seeks to facilitate family cohesion.

How we can help:

  • Create healthy boundaries

  • Improve conflict resolution

  • Communicate more effectively with family members

  • Increase insight and understanding

  • Decrease codependency

  • Assist with acceptance

  • Generate a healthier home environment with improved functioning

Group Therapy

Group therapy can be extremely beneficial to address an array of life’s challenges; grief/loss, caregiver strain, chronic medical issues, social skills, substance use and addiction, maternal issues, etc. Group therapy normalizes and validates what you are going through by being surrounded by other group members who are also struggling with similar difficulties.

How we can help:

  • Learn coping skills and strategies from other group members

  • Increase self-awareness and self-confidence

  • Decrease feelings of loneliness and isolation

  • Strengthen social skills and increase socialization

  • Increase your support system

  • Provides a safe environment to explore difficult challenges

  • Instills hope

James Nono, LCSW, LCADC

Clinical Director & Co-Founder

"Our clinical practice is focused and committed to the mental health of our clients. We are determined to provide our clients with the appropriate level of care for their needs.

We ensure that our clients feel safe enough to explore all facets of their vulnerability while utilizing practical and researched interventions.”

Conditions We Treat

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Other Mental Health Disorders

  • Addiction

  • Substance Use & Recovery

  • Family Conflict

  • Marital Conflict

  • Chronic Medical Illness

  • Caregiver Strain

  • Loss/Grief

  • Major Life Transitions

  • Childhood Issues

  • Codependency

  • Low Self-Esteem

  • Difficulty Coping

  • Stress Management

  • Pregnancy/Maternal Health

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Other Mental Health Disorders

  • Addiction

  • Substance Use & Recovery

  • Family Conflict

  • Marital Conflict

  • Chronic Medical Illness

  • Caregiver Strain

  • Loss/Grief

  • Major Life Transitions

  • Childhood Issues

  • Codependency

  • Low Self-Esteem

  • Difficulty Coping

  • Stress Management

  • Pregnancy/Maternal Health

  • "James was so empathetic and understanding of my marital issues."

    “James was so empathetic and understanding of my marital issues. He helped provide me with perspective and insight about how to best deal with challenges within my marriage, particularly surrounding infidelity. James assisted me in moving forward, setting boundaries, and improving my overall self-esteem. I feel our therapy sessions have allowed me to increase my confidence and get my voice back.”

    —Anonymous, marriage difficulties, supporting wife

  • "Concetta was a great therapist to speak to and now I look forward to the future and what it may bring."

    “While my anxiety and depression were at its peak, Concetta helped me with some grounding and coping techniques that I could easily implement in my daily life. She helped me realize how some of my thinking patterns and behaviors were not serving me and how best to address them. Concetta was a great therapist to speak to and now I look forward to the future and what it may bring.”

    —Anonymous, anxiety and depression sufferer

  • "We were hesitant about going to couples therapy, but now we feel much more connected than we have in a long time."

    “After seeing Concetta for some time now, it has really improved our communication. We are less defensive, more open, and compromise with much more ease. We actually enjoy spending time together and have incorporated a weekly date night. We were hesitant about going to couples therapy, but now we feel much more connected than we have in a long time.”

    —Anonymous, couples therapy, marital challenges

  • "I am feeling better about my life and myself, and feel like I am becoming a better partner."

    “I saw James to have a safe place to discuss my marital challenges. I wanted to speak to an unbiased party that would not hold anything against my spouse. After sharing some of my concerns, James assisted me in getting to know myself again, which included finding out what makes me happy, what gives me meaning and purpose, and how to engage in a self-care routine that centers me, despite all of life’s chaos. I am feeling better about my life and myself, and feel like I am becoming a better partner.”

    —Anonymous, marital challenges, supporting wife

  • "Having Concetta by my side gives me a great sense of comfort."

    “Concetta has assisted me greatly, since being diagnosed with cancer. She validates my feelings of uncertainty, encourages me to live a life of meaning and purpose, and she teaches me how to successfully communicate my needs with family and friends. Having Concetta by my side gives me a great sense of comfort.”

    —Anonymous, diagnosed with cancer

  • "I feel ready to embrace my future and start a new chapter in my life."

    “Concetta has helped me tremendously in getting through a number of difficult life transitions; loss of a parent, a divorce, and finding a new career path. She has helped reduce my anxiety, explore my feelings of guilt and resentment, and address my loss and grief. I feel ready to embrace my future and start a new chapter in my life, thanks to my therapy sessions with Concetta.”

    —Anonymous, undergoing life transitions

  • "I am starting to feel like myself again and it feels amazing."

    “I saw James weekly to assist me with dealing with my anxiety and depression. It didn’t happen overnight, but slowly but surely we were able to come up with helpful ways to reduce my symptoms, so much so I was able to engage in activities I have not done in years. I am starting to feel like myself again and it feels amazing.”

    —Anonymous, experiencing anxiety and depression

  • "With James' help I was able to make positive changes in my life."

    “James really helped me manage my alcohol use. He was empathetic, non-judgmental, and immediately made me feel comfortable. With James’ help I was able to make positive changes in my life, and I feel confident that I will maintain my sobriety.”

    —Anonymous, in recovery for alcohol use

Frequently Asked Questions

  • We are James and Concetta Nono, Licensed Clinical Therapists. We have years of clinical experience working with various populations including adults, families, and couples. This experience has allowed us to create a strong foundation for our work with extensive knowledge and skills that can support you in accomplishing your treatment goals. We specialize in issues such as mental health, substance use, relationship difficulties, chronic medical illness, caregiver strain, grief and loss, and undergoing major life transitions.

  • We are currently In-Network with several insurance providers. Please contact us to determine your eligibility. For those who are seeking services Out-of-Network, our sessions are $160 per session. We are happy to provide you with a superbill that you may submit to your insurance company for reimbursement. Sliding scale pricing may be available on a case by case basis.

  • We offer both in-person and virtual therapy sessions. Both are equally effective and it is a personal choice which method you prefer based on your specific needs.

    View our space here where we offer in-person sessions.

  • Click here to schedule your first appointment. Once we receive your request, we will contact you via phone for a free consultation. During this call we will ask you questions, as well as provide you with information to determine if our services are the right fit for you. If we both decide to move forward, we will then schedule our first appointment at a mutually convenient time.

Let’s kickstart your life again

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