Empowering people to move forward
Counseling for adults, adolescents, children, couples, and families in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Dr. Christine Belaire
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Clinical Mental Health Counselor
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC-S) Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT) |
Counseling Individuals
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Family Issues
Individual Counseling
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Mental Health
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Feelings Exercise
Counseling Couples
Dr. Belaire provides counseling for couples in various stages of relationship development.
Marriage Counseling
Separation and Divorce
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Pre-marital Counseling
Dating Relationships
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Play Therapy
Counseling Children
"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what is was to be young." |
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Dr. Belaire provides one-on-one counseling and play therapy for children ages 3 to 12 years. Play therapy is counseling for children that utilizes play, which is a child's natural expression of his/her world and provides a means for children to work through their emotions. When working with children, Dr. Belaire also works with parents to address the child's issues, implement parenting techniques, and to facilitate positive parent-child relationships.
Counseling children is a unique form of counseling, and children need a safe space where they can explore their development, work through issues, and express their needs. Confidentiality is a crucial part of the counseling process. Children need to feel comfortable expressing themselves in a secure counseling relationship. Dr. Belaire works with children and parents to balance the child's need for confidentiality and the parents' participation in the counseling process.
Counseling children is a unique form of counseling, and children need a safe space where they can explore their development, work through issues, and express their needs. Confidentiality is a crucial part of the counseling process. Children need to feel comfortable expressing themselves in a secure counseling relationship. Dr. Belaire works with children and parents to balance the child's need for confidentiality and the parents' participation in the counseling process.
"A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen."
Albus Dumbledore
Albus Dumbledore
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Family Issues
Play Therapy
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Family Activity
Mental Health
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Personal Growth
- Coping Strategies
- Decision Making
- Self-concept
- Feelings of Inadequacy
- Loneliness
- Stress
Counseling Adolescents
Individual Counseling for Adolescents
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Dr. Belaire provides one-on-one counseling for pre-teens and teens. Teenagers are a unique group and have special needs in counseling.
It is important that teens feel a secure sense of confidentiality in the relationship and are assured that counseling provides a safe place to deal with issues. Teenagers are working to develop a sense of identity and struggle with defining themselves apart from family and friends. Counseling for teenagers helps them cope with this difficult and exciting time of life and helps create a firm foundation for the future. |
“Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.” Albus Dumbledore
Mental Health
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School and SocialAcademic issues
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Personal Growth
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Counseling Families
Family Counseling Addresses:
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Parenting Topics
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Family Counseling and Communication
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
Albus Dumbledore
Albus Dumbledore
Dr. Belaire specializes in teaching communication techniques to individuals, couples and families. Counseling can help you learn new and more effective communication strategies to use in your personal life, in your romantic relationships, in friendships, with family, and at work.
Dr. Belaire's skills-based exercises teach practical tips for achieving effective communication. Individuals can come alone to improve communication skills with family, friends, coworkers, etc., or a couple or family can come together to learn and practice skills in the session. You will learn how to avoid the common communication mistakes that cause arguments and utilize the communication skills that lead to conflict resolution.
Effective communication skills help you express your point of view, hear and understand other people’s points of view, and reach resolution.
Dr. Belaire's skills-based exercises teach practical tips for achieving effective communication. Individuals can come alone to improve communication skills with family, friends, coworkers, etc., or a couple or family can come together to learn and practice skills in the session. You will learn how to avoid the common communication mistakes that cause arguments and utilize the communication skills that lead to conflict resolution.
Effective communication skills help you express your point of view, hear and understand other people’s points of view, and reach resolution.
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Spirituality in Counseling
Dr. Belaire works from a spiritual perspective incorporating the values and beliefs of the client into the counseling session.
Clients can decide to what extent they wish to discuss spiritual or religious issues within the counseling sessions. Dr. Belaire can help clients understand issues as they relate to their beliefs and formulate solutions that are congruent with the client's own spiritual and religious beliefs. 
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. John 15:27 |
Where there is no guidance, a people falls but in abundance of counselors there is safety. Proverbs 11:14
Spirituality and religious values are integral aspects of people's lives. Therefore, addressing issues from a spiritual or religious framework adds an important dimension to the counseling process.
Spiritual and religious techniques can be incorporated into the counseling session in many ways, such as:
If spiritual and religious values are important to you, discuss with Dr. Belaire how you would like to address these issues in the counseling session. |
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The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Psalm 34:18
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