Clinic: 414-231-9996

Location

S.M.I.L.E. INC Mental Health & AODA Outpatient Clinic

4222 West Capitol Drive #308

Milwaukee, WI 53216

Substance Abuse Services and Supportive Services: 262-343-5609

Mental/Behavioral Health Services:

414-231-9996

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Qualifications

School: Loyola University Chicago

Finances

Average Cost (Per Session): $150 – $180
Accepts Insurance: Yes

Accepted Payment Methods: American Express, Cash, Check, Discover, Health Savings Account, Mastercard, PayPal, Visa Accepted

Insurance Plans

Medicaid
Medicare
Out of Network

Please verify your health insurance coverage when you arrange your first visit.

Specialties

Spirituality Health
Emotional Health
Mental Health
Physical Health

Treatment Approach

Eclectic - Many practitioners take an eclectic approach to therapy, drawing upon various aspects of cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic methods to create their own custom-made approach. Such therapists often work with their clients to create a treatment plan that encompasses different techniques to best address the client's particular problems and to appeal to their sensibility. Listed below are all the approaches S.M.I.L.E. INC. will integrate to strengthen the four spectrums of health (Spirituality Health, Emotional Health, Mental Health, and Physical Health) for our clients.

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Issues

Alcohol Abuse
Anger Management
Anxiety
Career Counseling
Coping Skills
Depression
Family Conflict
Grief
Marital and Premarital
Relationship Issues
School Issues
Self Esteem
Stress
Behavioral Health
Substance Abuse
Trauma and PTSD

Client Focus

Ethnicity: African-American, Hispanic, and Latino

Religious Orientation: Christian

Age

Early Childhood to Late Childhood (Ages 4-11)
Adolescent (Ages 12-20)
Early Adult to Late Adult (Ages 21-80+)

Call or Email to Set Up a

Free Consultation

smilewchrist@yahoo.com

Types of Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)

Cognitive-behavioral therapy stresses the role of thinking of how we feel and what we do. It is based on the belief that thoughts, rather than people or events, cause our negative feelings. The therapist assists the client in identifying, testing the reality of, and correcting dysfunctional beliefs underlying his or her thinking. The therapist then helps the client modify those thoughts and the behaviors that flow from them. CBT is a structured collaboration between therapist and client and often calls for homework assignments. CBT has been clinically proven to help clients in a relatively short amount of time with a wide range of disorders, including depression and anxiety.

Culturally Sensitive

Culturally sensitive therapists provide therapy that is culturally sensitive. They understand that people from different backgrounds have different values, practices, and beliefs, and are sensitive to those differences when working with individuals and families in therapy.

Family/Marital

Family and Marital therapists work with families or couples both together and individually to help them improve their communication skills, build on the positive aspects of their relationships, and repair the harmful or negative aspects.

Integrative

Integrative therapy refers to therapy in which elements from different types of therapy may be used. Therapists 'integrate' two or more therapeutic styles (e.g. cognitive and family systems) to bring about a personalized and practical approach to healing. Integrative therapy may also refer to the process of 'integrating' the personality by taking disowned or unresolved aspects of the self and making them part of a cohesive personality whole. It reduces the use of defense mechanisms that inhibit spontaneity and allows flexibility in solving emotional problems.

Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a method of therapy that works to engage the motivation of clients to change their behavior. Clients are encouraged to explore and confront their ambivalence. Therapists attempt to influence their clients to consider making changes, rather than non-directively explore themselves. Motivational Interviewing is frequently used in cases of problem drinking or mild addictions.

Person-Centered

Person-centered therapy uses a non-authoritative approach that allows clients to take more of a lead in discussions so that, in the process, they will discover their own solutions. The therapist acts as a compassionate facilitator, listening without judgment and acknowledging the client's experience without moving the conversation in another direction. The therapist is there to encourage and support the client and to guide the therapeutic process without interrupting or interfering with the client's process of self-discovery.

Strength-Based

Strength-based therapy is a type of positive psychotherapy and counseling that focuses more on your internal strengths and resourcefulness, and less on weaknesses, failures, and shortcomings. This focus sets up a positive mind-set that helps you build on your best qualities, find your strengths, improve resilience, and change worldview to one that is more positive. A positive attitude, in turn, can help your expectations of yourself and others become more reasonable.

Trauma-Focused

Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) helps people who may be experiencing post-traumatic stress after a traumatic event to return to a healthy state.

SEMPH

SEMPH is a holistic treatment approach that balances the four spectrums of health and healing the whole self in order to perform at one’s optimum level. Holistic treatment works when we approach life from all aspects of being — physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually (Chopra, 1993). When healing holistically, we need to be balanced on all levels. When one level of the spectrum of health is at low production, it becomes a lifelong process striving to achieve a perfect life balance. Therefore, a holistic approach is considered to be more effective because change occurs on all levels and as a result, positive changes are more likely to last long-term and improve a person's overall quality of life (Gang Sha, 2006).

Spiritual Health

Spiritual health is the central program for spiritual/holistic (whole health). Being spiritually connected allows the other health systems to function at their highest potential. Meditation services (music, art, or aromatherapy) are designed to relax the mind. The goal is to promote inner strength and inner peace to help our clients release the natural “fight or flight” response and begin to focus on whole health.

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Daily Individual/Group Prayer
Spiritual Empowerment Courses
Art Therapy
Aroma Therapy
Music Therapy

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Emotional Health

Emotional health is connecting with the love/joy that is within, realizing the importance of family support.

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Respite Services for Families
Child Care/Visitation
Family Counseling

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Mental Health

Mental health is designed for preventative measures for reoffending individuals and reoffending mental health individuals released from the criminal justice system with dual diagnosis.

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AODA Counseling
Psychotherapy
Therapeutic Groups
In-Home Services

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Physical Health

Physical health and recreational leisure are needed to take care of your body for optimal functioning. The center will not only help individual’s physical health and recreational leisure to take care of their body for optimal functioning but it will also bring jobs to the inner city for the young generation and open up a safe haven and meeting ground for the youth with idle time on their hands. The center will also bring in revenue with a neighborhood basketball league or a district basketball league, chess tournaments, concerts, positive motivational leaders, and more.