Path Light Alliance Counseling

M Jane Wiens
Social Worker/Therapist, LMSW

Licensed Masters Social Worker
105 South Main St, Hillsboro KS 67063
Phone: 620-382-5302
email: pathlightalliance@gmail.com

Life is a journey. We are each on a path each day and every moment. One step, one action, or one word may determine the outcome of that moment and ultimately determine the direction; the future.
Sometimes our path has obstacles and the next step is difficult. How do I move forward? What can I do? When will this problem go away? Who will help me? Where can I go?
There are answers to these questions. There are tools that can be useful to create the next step on your path. One change, one tool may change the overwhelming feeling, to lighten the step on your journey.

Services Provided
My specialty is working with families and individuals who may be experiencing stress in the area of relationship dynamics; between parents' and child, and/or with the extended family. Stress can present itself in many forms; anxiety, depression, child behavior difficulties, school learning deficits, anger, and/or cut-off relationships and more subtle mood changes. You are a product of the emotional system in which you were raised. A child's mind is impressionable and will absorb, learn and develop a role, create their own emotional foundation and engage in their own dynamic. Sometimes the emotional system emits traumatic and stressful events.
I bring to light through assessment and evaluation visual mapping to help understand the presenting symptoms. Family systems is unique in that it highlights emotional dynamics within the family, having a ripple effect in undifferentiated individuals. There is no blame or shame simply history as it has evolved through time. Each family or individual has developed a unique system, no two are alike and that makes therapy a highlight. When we see it as it is, the family can begin to take embedded patterns and make adjustments for positive change. Problems can be a opportunity for learning and change. Family systems therapy is powerful and a results driven therapy.
Children with behavior problems will react to the symptoms of the nuclear family. The Nuclear Family Emotional Process presents symptoms of anxiety in the family by, distancing, conflict, over functioning/under functioning, triangulation, undifferentiation and many more efforts to defuse the stress.
As positive changes are made children change too. Additional reinforcement can be made by developing behavior plans for children with visual graphic organizers to create images modeling how to change behavior.
I work with victims of Narcissism and religious, emotional, physical abuse. Victims may experience numerous symptoms. Some deep in the subconscious and rooted in survival. In the present, PTSD may be debilitating and trying to ignore the symptoms is an agonizing experience.
We work in an alliance, together finding the tools and solutions to ease pain, changing negative habits/ways of thinking to long-lasting new ways of living. Each person has within them the answer, it is there, we just need to find and sort through the biological, psychological, social, environmental and spiritual aspects unique to the each person who seek help. "Results" is the key word to problems. Results bring change!

Education
Jane Wiens a Licensed Masters Social Worker has 10 years experience in mental health services and counseling, in community mental health and the educational system.
She has a bachelors degree from Tabor College and received a Master's Degree in Social Work from the University of Kansas.
Jane has training in Cognitive Behavior Therapy through the Beck Institute, also trained in Dialectial Behavior Therapy from the Linehan Institute. She is Certified in NeuroLinguistic Programming and Time-Line Therapy, Henderson NV.

Experience
My internship at Tabor led me to a position at a mental health center where I worked for several years. I then pursued a Master's Degree at the University of Kansas. I completed my internships at two mental health facilities.
From mental health services to working with students in the school system for seven years. I worked with students grades K-12 providing counseling sessions with students working with individuals and groups. There are many issues that children may dealing with; ADD/ADHD, Bipolar, Anxiety, Autism, Emotional Disorders, Social Skills, ....etc.
I have life experience and actively involved in raising a son with Asperger's from birth to self-independence. Understanding learning styles, learning advocacy skills and creating an adaptive life with outcomes of success has had it's difficulties and joys.
Also 25 years of experience working with Narcissistic Personality Disorders and their victims who have experienced chronic anxiety and PTSD symptoms. Other areas I've focused on are managing the affects of Schizophrenia, placement in the community and independence skills.

ISSUES

Anxiety
Autism
Panic Attacks
Depression
Religious Abuse
Spirituality
Narcissism
Victims of Narcissism
School behavior issues
Family issues
Stress
Parenting difficulties
Trauma Related Issues
Co-Dependency
Women's Issues

TREATMENT APPROACH

Bowen Family Systems
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
NeuroLinguistic
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy
Solution-focused Brief
Time-Line Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Christian Counseling
Post-Traumatic Growth Path

Appointment Options:
Contact Jane by calling 620-382-5302 to schedule.
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