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Sarah Pranger
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LLMFT
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Finances
Fees
- Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible
- Pay by American Express, Cash, Discover, Mastercard, Visa
Insurance
- BlueCross and BlueShield
- Most Automobile Insurances
- Optum
- Priority Health
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Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by State of Michigan / 4151001090 Sarah Pranger
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Marital and Premarital
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Life Transitions
Expertise
- ADHD
- Adoption
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Career Counseling
- Child
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Dementia
- Depression
- Divorce
- Education and Learning Disabilities
- Family Conflict
- Grief
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- Relationship Issues
- Self Esteem
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Women's Issues
Client Focus
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Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Christian Counseling
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- EMDR
- Experiential Therapy
- Expressive Arts
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Gottman Method
- Motivational Interviewing
- Person-Centered
- Rational Emotive Behavior (REBT)
- Relational
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Somatic
- Trauma Focused
Groups
Raising Littles - Nurturing Little Minds
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This group's focus is on supporting parents become their child's biggest cheerleader by recognizing their inner strengths, structuring productive discipline, and supporting healthy neuro-emotional development. Do you have a difficult behavior that you are struggling to understand the reinforcement behind? Or a child that would benefit from more productive structure? Or perhaps you are feeling isolated as a new parent and wondering if you're doing everything wrong? You are not alone! Give us a call today to find our when our next meeting is. Open to parents of minor children.
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Location
Beacon Center
10740 Old US Hwy 27 South
Gaylord, MI 49735
Anger Management - A CBT Approach w/Peer Support
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Sometimes our emotions get the best of us and overflow into other areas of our lives. Often, when this happens, it can make quite a mess of things, especially if it happens frequently and you're not really sure what causes it. We use a CBT approach within a group setting to help individuals explore strong emotions and develop strategies for understanding and expressing those emotions in a more productive manner. In addition, you will learn effective de-escalation techniques based on the Polyvagal Theory of how your vagus nerve controls responses to your environment - and how to change them.
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Beacon Center
10740 Old US Hwy 27 South
Gaylord, MI 49735
Somatic Experiencing Group Sessions
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Somatic Experiencing is one method of addressing the effect of stressful events and trauma on the physical body. Often these effects become stored in various locations and cause trouble later when a sensory input bumps into one such-stored event (PTSD). Somatic Experiencing provides support for recognizing those stored sensations and resolving them through acknowledgement and understanding. One hallmark of the experience of trauma is the absence of choice, but in the interpersonal world of the group, the members are reminded over and over that they have choices, even about whether to take up a given opportunity or not.
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Location
10740 Old US Hwy 27 South
Gaylord, MI 49735
Location
Primary Location
Beacon Therapies
10740 Old US Hwy 27 South
Gaylord, MI 49735
(334) 564-9308Email me
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