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What is Online Counseling?

Phone Counseling

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Who uses Internet Counseling?

What to expect?

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Mission Statement

Serenity Mental Health Services provided outpatient services for drug, alcohol and gambling addiction and mental health services. The focus of Serenity Mental Health Services is to contribute to the development or stabilization of mental health by fostering Social Interest in the lives of the clients served.

The therapeutic change process is anchored in Alfred Adler’s Theory of Individual Psychology. Individual Psychology is essentially a psychology of interpersonal relationships developed by Alfred Adler in 1911. It views man holistically as a creative, responsible, “becoming” individual moving toward fictional goals within his/her phenomenal field. Thus the individual with “psychopathology” is seen as discouraged rather than sick, and the therapeutic task is to encourage him/her, to activate his/her social interest, and to develop a new life-style through relationship analysis, and action methods.

Serenity is fostered as individuals and families are encouraged to accept the things they can not change, develop the courage to change the things that are in their power to change and gain insight into the difference. This will provide them the opportunity to face the conflicts and challenges in life with confidence in themselves and their communities.

The changes we experience in life are presented by the following concepts of the therapeutic change process identified as required to foster Serenity in clients:

  S Social interest
  E Early Memories
  R Responsibility
  E Encouragement
  N Natural Consequences
  I Individuality
  T Teleology (Striving for a Goal)
  Y Yes (No buts about it, the Courage to be imperfect, the elimination of excuses and blaming)

Simply put, Serenity Mental Health Services utilizes the concepts portrayed in the Serenity Prayer to facilitate change and spiritual transitioning.

Serenity Prayer

God Grant me the Serenity to accept the things that I can not change, the Courage to change the things I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference.

 

 

Schedule a Session

You can begin by purchasing a session. After receipt of payment, a counselor will contact you to schedule an appointment. Please make your selection below. Depending on your insurance carrier, your session may be covered. To learn more, click here.

Telephone Sessions

Session Length Cost Pay
30 Minutes $50
50 Minutes $90


Chat Sessions

Session Length Cost Pay
30 Minutes $40
50 Minutes $80


Face-to-face Video Sessions

Session Length Cost Pay
30 Minutes $50
50 Minutes $90


In-Office Session

Session Length Cost Pay
50 Minutes $90

 

Insurance

Most insurance companies require "face-to-face" counseling. In a lot of cases, an Internet-based video session qualifies as a "face-to-face" session. After we have received your intake information and you have purchased a video session, we will schedule your first session. Following your session, we will submit your information to your insurance company for processing. Upon receipt of payment from your insurance company, provided it is received within 60 days of your payment to Serenity Mental Health Services, we will issue a refund to you for the amount covered by your insurance company.

For example, if you schedule a 50-minute session and have submitted $90, and your insurance company covers $70, we will issue you a refund for the $70. The refund will be generated through PayPal provided it occurs within 60 days of your original payment.

 

 

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Office Location
6613 Eastridge Road
Black Hawk, SD 57718
1-888-347-7560

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Diana Smith, MA, LPC-MH, CCDC III

Diana owns and operates Serenity Mental Health Services and is licensed by the National Board of Certified Counselors. License number is LPC-MH2025 and she follows the ethical guidelines described by the NBCC found below and at their web site www.nbcc.org/webethics2.

Diana is a member of the National Board for Certified Counselors, Certification Number 43911.

In addition, she is also a member of the American Counseling Association, Member ID# 5140627.

Online counseling can help you right now. Research has made it clear that this manner of offering therapy is effective and those who've experienced it have said they would seek it out again.

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