I am prepared to assist you seven days a week, with convenient day and evening appointments available. In most cases an appointment can be obtained within hours of an emergency arising. A sliding fee scale is available for special cases and as the court deems appropriate.
Mental Health Counseling
The family is one of the oldest and most common human institutions. It is the most important organizations in society. As family members, we need to meet certain emotional and social needs. We are expected to provide each other with affection, emotional support, and a sense of belonging. Just as our children depend on us for love and the basis necessities, they in turn give us the emotional support we needs. Maintaining a marriage and raising a family are not easy tasks. Problems are a normal part of family life. While some problems can be solved at home, others involve professional help. Howard Rudolph is here to provide you with the professional help you deserve in order to solve those problems and strengthen personal and family relationships. Don’t ignore the problem, address it and get help. Your family will thank you for it.
Counseling is provided for all mental health needs for all age groups with confidentiality in all circumstances. Services are available for children dealing with stress and educational counseling, for families dealing with changes in the nuclear structure of the family unit (divorce, stepparents, death), for adults coping with changes in their lives and adaptation, for trauma, phobias and stress and for all other aspects of mental health needs.
Appointments are available days, evenings and weekends and in most circumstances an initial appointment can be obtained within hours of the client’s first contact, if necessary.
Insurance is accepted and Howard Rudolph is a Value Options provider and a member of the Crisis Care Network.
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Individual Anger Management Course
Battering is the establishment of control and fear in a relationship through violence and other forms of abuse. Acts of violence, intimidation, threats, psychological abuse and isolation are used to coerce and control the other person. The violence may happen often, but it remains as a hidden, and constant, terrorizing factor.
These are issues that many individual and families face. As specialist in creating a process of change for men who batter, the experience in dealing with both victims and abusers can help resolve the situation with these domestic problems.
Anger management is available for group and individual counseling sessions; all sessions are strictly confidential and sensitive to the specific needs of each client. Anger management therapy ranges from counseling domestic violence abusers and victims, preventing domestic violence, coping with children exposed to domestic violence, and treatment plans for all clients in need of extensive behavior modification. Sessions and classes are available as necessary for each client’s specific needs.
In addition to anger management counseling, extensive 8 to 12 week anger management programs are available. If appropriate, reports and recommendations to court or other agencies are provided.
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Co-Parent Coordination Session
What is a Parent Coordinator?
Parent Coordinators are trained psychotherapists or licensed mental health professionals who are designated to work with select families. Parent Coordinators have training and experience in child development, legal dynamics, mediation and conflict resolution. They are Supreme Court certified in family mediation. The role of the Parent Coordinator is to educate, mediate, monitor, ensure the court order is enforced and assist parents in creating a workable Parenting Plan. Parent Plans help to clarify expectations and to close any loopholes in their previous order or settlement agreement. After parents have finished working with the Parent Coordinator (six months to one year) they are encouraged to return in the future, as needed, to resolve parenting issues. The role of the Parent Coordinator is to assist the parents as well as other significant individuals in resolving conflict in a manner that is beneficial to the child(ren). Essentially, Parent Coordinators function as an impartial party safeguarding the child's best interest rather than advocating for either parent.
What are the qualifications for Parent Coordinators?
While working in the Cooperative Parenting Institute model, the therapist assumes the role of "Parent Coordinator". In our model the therapist working as a Parent Coordinator should be an experienced licensed clinician. If master level therapists are not recognized by licensure in their state, they should have extensive experience and supervision comparable to licensure in other states or to clinical membership in the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. Skills associated with family therapy are not sufficient while working with conflicted post-divorced families. Additional techniques and knowledge are also essential. Parent Coordinators should have training and experience in the following disciplines:
- Family systems theory
- Adult psychotherapy
- Developmental psychology
- Divorce recovery
- Children's adjustment issues specific to divorce including parental alienation
- Conflict resolution
- Mediation techniques
- Communications theory
- Legal aspects of divorce
- Psychotherapeutic interventions used in the Cooperative Parenting model.
Why is there a need for Parent Coordinators?
Throughout the country a new trend has been spreading: the use of therapists as Parent Coordinators. Binuclear families in high conflict are not receiving the services they require to thrive. Even though these conflicted families have professionals such as judges, guardians, custody evaluators, attorneys and mental health providers, it seems that no one professional can impact these families in a therapeutic and long-term manner. Historically, judges have referred families to alternative services such as mediation, parent education, counseling and other services. Unfortunately, the families in need of ongoing monitoring seem to fall through the cracks and end up in the revolving door of litigation.
The types of parents who may require monitoring include those with allegations of abuse, drug usage, blocked access, alienation and other inappropriate or dangerous behaviors. Parent coordinators are experienced psychotherapists who are granted limited authority to intervene with high conflict divorce. The Coordinator may be assigned pre- or post-divorce. Sometimes they are assigned years after a divorce, when the family has returned once again to litigate. Parent Coordinators, much like Guardian Ad Litem, are basically working in the child's best interest. However, unlike a Guardian who is time-limited, the therapist assigned as a Parent Coordinator is available in the future, as needed, to assist the family.
How is Parent Coordination different from therapy?
Although Parent Coordinators are therapists, it is important to recognize that what they do is not psychotherapy. Parent Coordinators do not have the luxury of taking all the time necessary to work with parents. They must "push" parents to make as much progress as possible, often at a time when the parents are highly resistant. Parent Coordinators must also limit what parents talk about, and they structure sessions tightly. Unlike therapists, Parent Coordinators cannot be warm and fuzzy. They must be direct and authoritative at times. Parent Coordinators are assigned to educate, mediate, monitor, ensure court order and report back to the courts. One of the primary jobs is to ensure parent access, reduce stress for the child, and teach conflict resolution skills to the parents.
What is accomplished through Parent Coordination?
- Shielding of the child from conflict
- Allows child to love both parents
- Reduces the child's stress and loyalty binds
- Ensures the child's safety
- Improves the co-parent relationship
- Increases parent cooperation
- Teaches unication skills
- Reduces the opportunity for alienation through monitoring
- Mediates a parenting planReduces future litigation & court costs
- Assists parents in shifting their role from former spouse to co-parent
- Reduced emotional attachment to the marital relationship
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Supervised Property Exchange
Upon court order or agreement of the parties, in high conflict situations, Howard Rudolph is available to supervise all types of property exchange. With years of experience in law enforcement, anger management, crisis management and domestic violence counseling, all parties involved in the property exchange will feel the necessary safety and protection to complete this difficult task.
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Mediation Services
As a Florida Supreme Court Certified Family and County Mediator, mediation can be completed at the convenience of the parties. Mediation appointments are available day, evening or weekends and will accommodate the schedule of both parties. Agreements reached at mediation can be utilized in all appropriate court proceedings and are government by the appropriate state sanctioned rules governing mediation.
Mediation can assist with divorce negotiation, child support and visitation, revisions of existing agreements, and court ordered mediations. When the lines of communication have broken down, mediation is a cost effective solution for resolving your issues without involving other parties in your decision making. Mediation can give you the control and solution to the conflicts you face.
In high conflict situations, all parties will be assured that they will feel protected and the necessary procedures will be implemented to assure a smooth and uneventful mediation process. All issues will be addressed, all parties will be treated with respect and all sensitive matters will be handled with the appropriate care and consideration.
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Critical Incident Stress Management
Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) is a comprehensive, integrative, multicomponent crisis intervention system. It consists of multiple components which span all aspects of a crisis. It deals with interventions applied to individuals, small functional groups, large groups, families, organizations and even entire communities. It assists the individual client in coping with the necessary skills to understand the critical incident and move forward from the situation to deal with the necessities of daily living.
Clients will be treated with respect, situations will be handled with confidence and sessions will continue as necessary for the individual needs of each client. Appointments are available to suit the needs of each individual client or client groups; on-site counseling is also available.
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Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is available for the effective treatment of phobias, crisis interventions, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, stress management, smoking cessation, weight management, progressive relaxation control, addictions, pain management, chronic illness and other behavior modification needs. Through hypnotism you can become more aware of your feelings, modify your behavior and learn new ways of thinking and solving problems.
Sessions are available day, evening and weekends and will be tailored to the individual needs of each client. Some insurance is available for hypnotherapy treatment.
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Supervised Visitation
Situations arise when the need for supervised visitation between minor children and a parent are necessary to protect our most valuable assets – children. At all times the safety and welfare of the child or children are protected while enabling contact between the child and the parent. The concern and well being of the minor child or children are the primary goal for the supervisor in these difficult circumstances.
These visitations sessions have been established and ordered by the courts of the state of Florida while providing the necessary feeling of protection for all parties involved.
All supervision performed by Howard Rudolph are conducted in an unobstructed, secure yet comfortable atmosphere while parents are able to participate in the normal routine of activities of the child while remaining under the watchful trained eye of the supervisor.
All supervisors are available to provide all aspects of support following the supervision, including, but not limited to, child exchanges, court room testimony and written reports, if requested.
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