Help for couples and individuals just like you, to get back on track and to find healing and happiness.
Services
Individual Therapy
Individual Therapy is so helpful for so many people because it’s the best way to get truly customized therapy. Understanding and experiencing your emotional needs allows you to better connect with yourself and others on a deeper level.
Each session builds on the next. The focus is not on problem solving, it is on getting to what is underneath the arguments, conflict and presenting issues. The goal is to get to the heart of the matter.
Couples Counseling
Couples Therapy in Metairie: Navigate challenges and strengthen your bond with our personalized approach. Connection is at the heart of what we are created for. Couples are often caught in painful patterns of interaction and experience deep hurt and distress preventing them from feeling safe and secure.
The goal of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Couples Counseling is to help couples move underneath their painful cycle in order to enter into deeper levels of security and connection. With this secure base, couples will learn how to address their core issues and connect on a deeper level.
Trauma Therapy
Most people will experience trauma in their lifetime whether it’s a car accident, abuse or neglect, the sudden death of a loved one, a violent criminal act, exposure to the violence of war, or a natural disaster.
Our unresolved stories follow us. They impact how we see ourselves, and how we relate and connect to others.
In these circumstances, the support, guidance, and assistance of a therapist are fundamental to healing. Story-Informed Trauma Therapy allows you to see the source of your distress, recognize its impact, and work through the journey of recovery.
Family Therapy
Our family affects who we are and who we become. We learn our vocabulary, our habits, our customs and rituals, and how to view and observe the world around us.
Family Therapy focuses on parental attachment needs to help reconnect, heal, and strengthen the parent-child bond. Family Therapy can also be attended with grown children to repair the past, navigate hurt feelings, and come together.
Anyone seeking healthier, closer family relationships can benefit from Family Therapy.
FAQs & Additional Resources
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What is Emotionally Focused Therapy?
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), founded by Dr. Sue Johnson, is a new way of understanding adult love relationships, drawing from attachment theory.
Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is a therapeutic approach based on the premise that emotions are key to identity.
This approach has been met with unprecedented success in helping distressed couples improve their relationship and deepen their bond.
A key tenet of EFT is that one has to feel a feeling in order to change it. In EFT, clients are helped to better identify, experience, accept, regulate, explore, make narrative sense of, transform, use, and flexibly manage their emotions.
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What is Story-Informed Trauma Therapy?
Story-Informed Trauma Therapy enables us to help clients with the real source of their distress.
Story-informed Trauma Therapy is a structured, directive therapy that utilizes one's chronological life story to inform, process, and resolve childhood trauma.
A unique aspect of this material is the recognition of the impact of childhood trauma on spiritual development and maturity.
A trauma-informed approach seeks an awareness of the widespread impact of trauma on life experiences and relationships. It recognizes trauma's role in the outlook, emotions, and behavior of a person with a trauma history.
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The Untangled Heart Workshop
Navigating your emotions for a better life.
Emotions can be wonderful! They can also be confusing and inconvenient. Worse yet, they can seem debilitating. Some of us live in numbness. Others of us are taken by surprise when our emotions overwhelm us. The consequences are pain, broken relationships, and disruption in our lives.
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Childhood Trauma Survivors Workshop
Thriving as an adult when unresolved childhood stories follow us.
Our unresolved childhood stories follow us, often making it difficult or impossible to truly thrive as adults. Even though we tell ourselves it wasn’t that bad, that we can push through, that it is long forgotten, that others had it worse, or even that we left it at the cross, still its impact persists.
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The Forgiveness Workshop
Learning to forgive and be forgiven in healthy ways.
If you have been hurt deeply and intimately by another person, then the messages we have heard about forgiveness can often feel trite, unrealistic, and even offensive. Many of us were taught lessons on forgiveness that only compounded our hurt. The expectations of other people for us to quickly forgive have only added insult to injury.
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The Impact of Trauma on Spiritual Development Workshop
Trauma impacts every part of life.
If the trauma victim is a religious person or someone raised in a religious home, the trauma will have shaped their spiritual experience. This is especially true in cases where the trauma took place in a religious environment or where the perpetrator was a trusted religious leader or parent.
This particular module is also appropriate for pastors and other helping professionals who want to understand the impact of trauma on spiritual formation.
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Where are you located?
Our office is located at 3305 Metairie Rd, 2nd Floor, Metairie, LA 70001. We are easily accessible from Interstate 10 and just minutes from Lake Pontchartrain.
Giselle Armantrout Counseling serves clients in the greater New Orleans area, including Metairie, Kenner, Gretna, Harvey, and the surrounding communities. We also offer telehealth appointments to clients throughout the state of Louisiana.
A year from now you will wish you started today.
— Karen Lamb