Why do people get counseling?
We all experience challenges in life’s normal stages: marriage, career choices, parenting, and aging. Also, unexpected events such as divorce, illness, unemployment, untimely death, inability to have children, or a traumatic event may occur. There are times when families can feel overwhelmed. It is during these times that professional counseling can be helpful. We offer professional counseling based on Christian principals.
How do you know if counseling could benefit you or your family? John 10:10 (KJV) provides a guideline for when to seek help: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. If there are issues in your life, which regularly prevent you from enjoying life, you may need to seek help.
Call us today with with your questions or to schedule a consultation:
Andrea Toups Turner,M.Ed., LPC, LMFT
For an appointment: 985-502-1226
Andrea earned a M.Ed. in counseling from Southeastern Louisiana University. She has also earned a Th.M. from New Orleans Baptist Theological
Andrea Toups Turner
Seminary. In addition to earning this degree at NOBTS, she has also completed the coursework in the doctoral program in Psychology and Counseling.
Andrea has worked with a wide variety of clients including individuals, couples and families. Specialty areas include mood disorders, personality, relationship and spiritual issues and difficulties related to sexual abuse. Specialized training in Critical Incident Stress Management and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) has further equipped Andrea in working with areas of crisis, childhood trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Through marriage counseling, Andrea addresses various intergenerational issues, communication difficulties, unhealthy relational patterns, sexual problems and areas of forgiveness and reconciliation. She also has experience in premarital counseling utilizing the PREPARE/ENRICH assessment.
Andrea primarily approaches counseling from a cognitive-behavioral perspective, which addresses patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting, and teaches the client how to reorient these processes in order to operate on a more balanced and healthy level. However, dependent on specific issues a client may be dealing with, techniques utilized will come from a wide variety of disciplines and theoretical perspectives, including the use of systems theory, structural/strategic, solution focused brief therapy and spiritual disciplines.
Robert F. (Fred) Selby, Jr. LPC, LMFT, CT, DAAETS
For an appointment: 225-223-1497
- Fred has been Associate Director of Granberry Counseling Centers since November 2006
- Married to Genie and has a beautiful daughter, Courtney, who has recently received her Juris Doctorate
Fred Selby
- Licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist and as a Professional Counselor. He is certified in Thanatology (death, dying and bereavement), a Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress, and is Board Certified in Bereavement Trauma
- A Certified Trainer for Independent Living Skills for Adolescents.
- In 2009, Fred was appointed by Louisiana’s Governor to the Licensed Professional Counselors Board of Examiners and
the Marriage and Family Advisory Committee and to the Commission for Marriage and Family. - Fred graduated from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity degree in August 1975
- Earned a Doctor of Divinity degree in 1985 from California Graduate School of Theology
- In 1997, he graduated from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity degree in Psychology and Counseling.
