Counseling

Counseling can help you overcome mental, behavioral, and emotional barriers in your personal, social, and professional life. Our licensed behavioral health providers use a holistic approach to help you develop practical skills, build on your strengths, and create meaningful change that supports your overall well-being.

What kinds of concerns do ICHC counselors address?

Our licensed behavioral health providers can help you with a wide variety of presenting concerns, including the following:

Therapeutic Approaches at ICHC 

Our counselors work with you to create a treatment plan that reflects your unique needs, strengths, and goals. Depending on what works best with you, they may draw from several therapeutic approaches, including:

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT helps people understand how their thoughts affect their feelings and actions. It focuses on noticing unhelpful thinking patterns and learning new ways to respond.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

DBT helps people manage strong emotions and improve relationships. It teaches skills like mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and communication. DBT balances accepting yourself as you are while also working toward change.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) (for established psychotherapy clients)

EMDR helps people work through distressing memories that continue to affect their thoughts or emotions. It uses a structured process with guided movements or sounds to help the brain process these memories in a new way. Over time, EMDR helps distressing memories and emotions to feel less intense and easier to manage.

Interpersonal Therapy

IPT focuses on how relationships affect mood and mental health. It helps people improve communication, manage conflict, and cope with life changes or losses. This therapy looks at current relationships, rather than the past.

Narrative Therapy

Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from their problems. It focuses on the stories people tell about their lives and helps rewrite those stories in a more empowering way. This approach views people as capable and resourceful.

Person-Centered Therapy

Person-Centered Therapy creates a supportive and non-judgmental space for growth with a focus on empathy, acceptance, and understanding. Clients are encouraged to explore their feelings at their own pace. This approach believes people can grow when they feel heard and respected.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

Solution-Focused Therapy focuses on strengths, goals, and what is already working. Rather than spending a lot of time on problems, it helps people identify small, realistic steps toward change. Sessions are future-focused and practical.

How much does therapy cost?

Good news! Federal law requires that mental health services, including therapy, be covered by most forms of insurance, including private insurance, Medicare and Medicaid. Talk to your insurance company or call our billing department at 907-455-4567, option 6, to find out what this means for you.

ICHC offers a sliding fee based on your income, regardless of your insurance. If you are having financial stress or worry about how to pay your bill, we recommend applying for our sliding fee discount, and if that isn't enough, talking to our billing department about further assistance. You can also check out our fee schedule to see our standard rates, in case you don't qualify for the slide or don't think your insurance will fully cover your bill because of deductibles or co-insurance. 

Do you offer in person or telehealth therapy?

We offer both! You can schedule an appointment in person at our Fairbanks office, or by telehealth from anywhere in Alaska. Call us today at 907-455-4567, option 1, to schedule. Initial intake assessments are conducted in person.

What concerns are outside the scope of ICHC counseling services?

When a client’s needs fall outside ICHC scope of services, we are committed to supporting appropriate referrals to one of our community partners. This includes patients with conditions that require psychiatric monitoring or treatment such as bipolar disorders, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, psychotic disorders, personality disorders, and/or substance use disorder management and treatment.

At ICHC, our behavioral health services focus one-on-one, individual counseling. Right now, we are not providing group therapy, family therapy, or marriage counseling services.

Because our focus at ICHC is counseling, we don’t offer forensic or evaluation-related services. This includes occupational health or disability determinations, ESA/companion animal letters, character witnesses or references, evaluations for competency (i.e., adoptions, custody, visitations, etc.), or court assessments for anger management.

Where do I start?

We recommend you start by talking to your primary care provider at ICHC about your needs. You can then schedule an appointment for an assessment to see if your needs and our licensed behavioral health providers are a good fit.

We also offer self-refer behavioral health counseling services to community members ages 18+ who have primary care providers outside of ICHC. Please review the above to determine if ICHC may be a good fit for you. If you are unsure, you are welcome to schedule a behavioral health assessment, and our licensed behavioral health providers can work with you to create a plan of care recommendation, which may include referrals to specialty behavioral health service providers.