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RecPlay Counseling Center

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Thank you for your interest in my counseling care where I’ve been serving the community as a Licensed Professional Counselor since 2010. My years as a newspaper sports writer prior to pivoting to a counseling career has allowed for a unique approach to helping hundreds of families in my professional career – a style I like to call Recreational Play Therapy.

Jordan Yates, LPC
Founder and Director of RecPlay Counseling Center

“Therapy should not be theory driven, but relationship driven.”

-Yalom

Thank you for your interest in my counseling care where I’ve been serving the community as a Licensed Professional Counselor since 2010. My years as a newspaper sports writer prior to pivoting to a counseling career has allowed for a unique approach to helping hundreds of families in my professional career – a style I like to call Recreational Play Therapy.

Key Therapy Services

Recreational Play Therapy

More age-appropriate, preteen and teenage style counseling sessions that incorporate talk therapy within a variety of sports (football, basketball, baseball, lacrosse, etc.) recreational activities (pool, air hockey, foosball, ping pong, etc.) and creative strategic mind games (checkers, chess, board games, card games, etc.
Student Skills-Building Sessions

Once therapeutic rapport has been established through recreational play therapy activities, recreational play therapy techniques continue but in a much more psychoeducational method that delivers strategies to improve communication and engagement with family at home, healthier social interactions at school, appropriate focus with academics and athletics, and also protecting better awareness and connection with self through increased confidence and self esteem.
ADHD Treatment and Psychoeducation

In concert with and without students on medication, provides supplemental mental health care for those who interact with non-accommodating environments to improve chances of not only functioning but exceptional production strategies like only a healthy ADHD brain can do once appropriately developed.
Parenting Skills Sessions

For every four (4) sessions conducted individually with each child/student, one parenting session is delivered and specially crafted for each unique family and its parent(s) for the purpose of continuing to build parental strengths, address longstanding parental challenge areas, and provide variety of ways to better connect with your child without betraying same child’s confidence by not explicitly relaying any report each child makes in individual sessions.
Preparation for Family Therapy

Before family sessions begin for those who desire improved communication and conflict resolution within their family fabric, both child/teenage client and parent(s) are primed and prepared for such engagement in family sessions beforehand in the aforementioned recreational play individual sessions and parenting skills sessions, setting the stage for the best chance of productive sessions with longer lasting family dynamic improvements.
Family Therapy Sessions

For those who dread the traditional, stereotypical awkward family meeting experiences, most family sessions conducted have a dose of both the fun, guard-down nature of recreational play activities along with the psychoeducation of student skills-building and parenting skills sessions to be used at home subsequent of in-office family therapy sessions.
Conjoint and Group Siblings Sessions

If siblings are falling short in seeing the potential and possibility of “built-in” friends within your own very family, family-style and group-therapy style recreational play techniques work just as effectively between siblings without the extra layer of parental involvement in session.

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What People Are Saying

“He really enjoyed his session! He says you’re cool and he looks forward to beating you at HORSE again. This is HUGE for him, he’s willing to work with you and I am happy and hopeful.”

— Mother of 9th Grader

“I couldn't help but reach out and let you know how he's doing and also say thank you for being an important part of [my son’s] success story. You have provided support and advice that has positively impacted his life and I am forever grateful. Thank you and continued blessings to you!”

— Mother of College Student

“I know I had let you know at the end of last year that he had enlisted in the Marines. Well, here is a picture of him being sworn in as a United States Marine on Saturday! Thank you again for all of your guidance along the way! Your brief but critical time with him certainly helped to get him here. I want you to see the progression!!!”