Toys are a child's words and play is their form of expression. 

Our play therapy services offer children the opportunity to work through emotional and psychological challenges to achieve positive growth and health development. This counseling service may also include Sandtray Therapy, which allows the client to create their own miniature world using small toys and colored sand, thus creating a reflection of their inner and outer life. The therapist can use this microcosm as a tool to help the client resolve conflicts and discover healing.  

Play Therapy Service Providers: Cheryl Childers, Wes Davis

WALK-AND-TALK THERAPY

Movement, whether it’s a leisurely walk or a brisk hike, can make it easier for some people to discuss their feelings. Our walk and talk counseling services are particularly helpful with teenagers, younger clients, or anyone who feels more at ease in nature. For individuals who have a lot of excess energy, feel uneasy with direct eye contact, or have trouble sitting still, this is a great option. Some therapists have noted that physical movement encourages psychological movement and can even accelerate client breakthroughs. 

In a walk-and-talk therapy session, you’ll meet your therapist in a public park or on nearby trails. For our Greenville and Sumter, South Carolina clients, walk-and-talk therapy sessions typically take place along the Swamp Rabbit Trail or at Paris Mountain State Park. You’ll get in your daily walk, breathe fresh air, and meet with your therapist, all in one go! 

Because walk-and-talk therapy deviates from the traditional, private office setting, you may have concerns about the details of such a therapy session. What do you do if you run into someone you know on the trail? Are you healthy enough to keep up? Will there be benches and access to water? Your Beauty for Ashes therapist will start by setting boundaries beforehand so that you feel safe and comfortable during your session. 

Walk-and-Talk Service Providers: Cheryl Childers, Wes Davis, Jamie Manko

THE DARING WAY(TM) & RISING STRONG(TM)

Beauty for Ashes Founder Cheryl Childers is a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator (CDWF).  She applies this work to individuals, couples, families, work teams, and organizational leaders, in clinical, educational, and professional settings.

The Daring Way™ is a highly experiential methodology based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown. Daring Way facilitators explore topics such as vulnerability, courage, shame, and worthiness. Participants are invited to examine the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that are holding them back and identify the new choices and practices that will move them toward more authentic and wholehearted living. The primary focus is on developing shame resilience skills and developing daily practices that transform the way we live, love, parent, and lead. 

The philosophy behind much of The Daring Way™ work is encapsulated in Dr. Brené Brown’s book Rising Strong. This book owns the fact that living a brave life is not easy. Sometimes we will fall. That’s when we must learn to get back up, own our stories of struggle, and give ourselves the power to write a daring new ending. Struggle can, in fact, be our greatest call to courage and the clearest path to a wholehearted life.

Daring Way Service Providers: Cheryl Childers

Clinical Supervision

We are committed to teaching and supporting our peers. Therapists seeking their own personal growth, or clinical supervision are welcome here. We provide therapy to our fellow therapist with the utmost confidentiality and care.

We are approved to provide Clinical supervision for rising Clinical Social Workers both in North Carolina and South Carolina, and Art and Play therapists through out the country. We provide individual and group supervision. We often mix groups with other clinical disciplines and treatment modality to maximize your education and growth as a therapist.

Supervision Providers: Cheryl Childers

GROUPS, WORKSHOPS, AND RETREATS

Groups are a wonderful way to feel supported. Whether your goal is growth, improving social skills, or something else, group therapy could help you achieve it. 

Beauty for Ashes Counselors provide art therapy, play therapy, and Rising Strong workshops, retreats, and ongoing group sessions for children, adults, and families.

Our passion is working with couples in couples counseling who are motivated to make positive changes in their lives and in their relationships. Our couples therapist has expertise helping dating, engaged, married, committed, and separating couples.

Our goal is to make sure that your counseling suits your unique relationship, couple style, and needs. You can expect to talk about what you learned from the family you grew up in, your past relationships, and together we will explore how those experiences influence your present situation. We will help to highlight cycles in your current relationship and talk about how these patterns keep you ‘stuck’ in conflict and disconnection. Your couples counselor will encourage out-of-session practice so that the insights and skills you learn in the office help you build intimacy and trust at home. Frequently, we will refer to books that extend and deepen our discussion.

Our Couples Counseling providers:

If you’re in a tough spot with your parents, your siblings, your children, or other family members, and you want to improve those relationships, consider family therapy. At Beauty for Ashes Counseling, we want to help you work through the challenges that are causing you and your family tension. You don’t have to navigate this alone. Because each individual has their own thoughts, feelings, and opinions that must be considered, our specially trained family therapist can serve as your guide, mediator, and source of support.

Beauty for Ashes Counseling understands how important your family relationships are. If you need help mending your relationships with family members or working through a challenge, consider exploring family therapy with one of our therapists.

Our Family Therapy Service Providers:

There are two major components of healthy sexual functioning- sexuality and dysfunctions. Sex Therapy at Beauty for Ashes Counseling focuses on your sexuality as a key component to many relational and individual issues. No matter how you identify, your sexuality and your sense of your sexual self are major factors in determining your preferences and sexual behaviors. Sometimes, these interconnecting parts do not fit well together and can cause distress in your life. Our sex therapist may be able to help you find out how to integrate pieces of your sexual identity, your social conditioning and your sexual preferences so that you can feel whole and content in your experience of your sexuality.

Sex therapy at Beauty for Ashes Counseling can also provide you support with dysfunctions of one's mental interest in sex, physical complications, performance problems and pain both of psychological and physical etiology.

Our Family Therapy Service Providers: