Mental Health Matters
Help Canopy Counseling meet the demand for Black Mental Healthcare
Project Description
Canopy Counseling and Consulting is experiencing unparalleled requests and opportunities for growth. Each request for services ultimately led to the various divisions under the company brand and umbrella. What started as a simple private practice has now shaped into a premier go-to resource for mental health professional services with current plans to expand to both Texas and Mississippi over the next four to five years with the current management and structure. That timeline can reasonably be moved up with the acquirement of funding and increase manpower. With the legislative passing of the Counseling Compact for Licensed Professional Counselors, it is the hope that Canopy Counseling and Consulting becomes a global brand and premier resource for mental health professional services.
WHO WE ARE
Canopy Counseling is a concierge counseling agency that services St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, and East Baton Rouge Parishes. We emphasize Adaptive Integration approaches (trademark pending) to increase the counselor/client relationship and increase the chances of successful outcomes.
Canopy is a team of professionals and professional counselors with vast knowledge and experience in the field of mental health. We believe in educating the client about their situation/condition so that they feel better about themselves and work more effectively towards successful outcomes. We believe clients are more than their diagnosis and strive to create programs and plans that would consider the “whole client” for a better therapeutic relationship.
WHAT WE DO
We offer a rapidly growing list of services specific to the needs of the client. Our therapists have a wide variety of expertise that are assessed at intake and given to the appropriate therapist based on need of the individual. We use a client centered approach to assist the client with self-actualization. Other modalities include (but not limited to):
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT)
- Solution Based Therapy
- Dialectal Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Movie Therapy
- Art/Writing Therapy
- Music Therapy
HOW WE DIFFER:
At Canopy we see counseling as a process in which the client and therapist work as a team to explore and define present problem situations, develop future goals for an improved life and work in a systematic fashion toward realizing those goals. We see the counseling relationship as one of growth, providing support in the client’s progress towards self-actualization.
At Canopy we believe that individuals are more than just their diagnosis. Too often we see individuals who feel unheard, neglected, and hopeless because the counseling process has failed them. At Canopy we look beyond the symptoms and diagnosis and EDUCATE the client about all of it and how it contributes to their current situation. We look at culture, family, belief system, and history to provide more effective treatment and more trusting relationships which ultimately lead to better outcomes and success rates. We don’t focus on the “latest mental health trend” and instead have more well-rounded experienced professionals that are skilled in all facets of therapy. While we take holistic approaches, we do not deny the benefits of medication treatment and work with physicians and psychiatrists when needed to decrease the gap in continuity of care. Our services are tailor fit from the inception of counseling for every individual. From the high profile and rich with our concierge services, to the low socioeconomic family. At Canopy Counseling and Consulting,
“We’ve got you covered…
Staci K. Whiteside, MA, LPC-SA am the SOLE proprietary owner of Canopy Counseling and Consulting. I am a lifelong local resident living and growing up between Slidell and New Orleans since birth. I graduated from Salmen High School in 1998 where my mother taught math for over 20 years and was one of the founders for the St. Tammany Parishes Teacher Union that is still utilized today. I have been in the mental health field since 2002 earning my Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Southern University and A & M College, second Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Virginia Commonwealth University and then moving back home after Katrina to finish my M.A. degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Southern University and A & M College in 2009. I am licensed as a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor (LPC-S) #4670 with the Louisiana LPC Board of Examiners located at 8631 Summa Avenue, Baton Rouge, LA 70809 (Phone 225/765-2515). I am a board approved supervisor of Provisional Licensed Professional Counselors (PLPCs). I also have appraisal privileges with the state (LPC-A). I am currently a Counseling Doctoral Student with a tentative completion date of December 2023.
I was trained in Forensic Psychology and Counseling under the late Ivory L. Toldson and his son Dr. Ivory A. Toldson who is listed as one of the Top 10 Forensic Psychologists in the country. He no longer practices and instead is now Tenure Professor at Howard University and serves on SEVERAL boards for Mental Health, Education, and Advocacy in Washington, DC. I have written research on Jury Decision Making, Psychopathy, and Eyewitness Testimony. My expertise are in Diagnosing, Forensic Counseling, Ethics, and Assessment. I am very well known in my field locally and have been sought to establish programs and ventures throughout the country. I have made business millions of dollars over the course of my practice and feel the time is now to do it for myself. In 2020, I decided to formalize myself as a business to provide some of those services. I have worked with several hospitals, agencies, and physicians but the demand for my services have become too great for me to continue alone. In December 2021 I took the steps to begin separating myself from being an “independent contractor” and becoming a formalized entity legally. Using money from my individual contracts I began building business credit and resources and am presently at a standstill because I lack the resources to fulfill current requested and pending contracts.
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Frequently Asked Questions:
- What services do you offer:
SERVICES
- Individual and Family counseling
- Family counseling, or family therapy, aims to address psychological, behavioral, and emotional issues that cause family problems. Family members will work with a therapist or counselor to develop and maintain a healthy relationship.
- Individual counseling (sometimes called psychotherapy, talk therapy, or treatment) is a process through which clients work one-on-one with a trained mental health clinician in a safe, caring, and confidential environment.
- Substance Abuse Needs Assessments
- Determines the need for crisis counseling, mental health and/or substance misuse treatment, public education, and information dissemination. Assesses risk factors and reactions in relation to: Safety. Level of exposure to the traumatic event.
- Reunification Recommendations
- Working with the family, caseworkers examine such variables as whether the safety issues that resulted in out-of-home placement have been addressed, whether parents and children have received the services outlined in the case plan, whether parents have met other case plan requirements, whether there is a plan in place to keep children safe once they return home, and more.
- Parent/teen relational counseling
- The Parent-Child Relationship is one that nurtures the physical, emotional, and social development of the child. It is a unique bond that every child and parent will can enjoy and nurture. This relationship lays the foundation for the child's personality, life choices and overall behavior.
- Forensic interviewing
- Forensic interviewing is a means of gathering information from a victim or witness for use in a legal setting, such as a court hearing. It is a key component of many child protective services investigations.
- Forensic Counseling
- Counseling services to inmates, people on probation, victims of crime, and those accused of crimes. Often, they can be called on to testify in court about the status of their client’s mental health or provide recommendations about sentencing or parole as required.
- Advocacy
- Professional counselor advocacy involves taking action to promote the profession, with an emphasis on removing or minimizing barriers to counselors' ability to provide services.
- Special education advocates help parents make sure a child's special needs are met. They help parents understand available services, interpret test results, and work with schools to plan individualized education programs (IEPs).
- Social justice advocacy has been defined as organized efforts aimed at influencing public attitudes, policies, and laws to create a more socially just society guided by the vision of human rights that may include awareness of socio-economic inequities, protection of social rights as well as racial identity, experiences of oppression, and spirituality.
- Multicultural Counseling
- therapeutic counseling that considers the different factors that affect racial, ethnic, and other types of minorities, including historical oppression and its effects on society.
- Marital/Relationship Counseling
- Helping relationship in counseling starts by identifying what is causing distress in the relationship and then devising a treatment plan to access and mitigate the symptoms
- Differential Diagnosis
- A differential diagnosis occurs when your symptoms match more than one condition and additional tests are necessary before making an accurate diagnosis. Differential diagnosis is a systematic process used to identify the proper diagnosis from a set of possible competing diagnoses.
- Substance Abuse Sobriety Maintenance
- A type of ongoing treatment service that is given to people in recovery from drug addiction after they achieve initial sobriety.
- Adoption Counseling
- Adoption counseling, sometimes called unplanned pregnancy counseling, is designed to help expectant mothers, and educate them about their options.
- Life Skills
- an educational approach, which is used to inculcate the essential life-skills in an individual to meet the challenges of everyday life.
Mental Health Education
- Educational continuing education, program development, and specialized designed training for companies, agencies, and individuals to advance understanding, skill set, and application of mental health topics.
Also:
Under the Canopy that is Canopy Counseling and Consulting we have:
- Canopy Counseling
- Canopy A.C.A.D.E.M.Y
- Canopy House
- Ivy Media and Press
Canopy Counselor A.C.A.D.E.M.Y™
Canopy Counselor Academy (CCA) is the educational component of Canopy Counseling and Consulting. It stands for Achieving Cultural Awareness Demonstrating Empathetic Methods Yourself. Under CCA, Provisionally Licensed Professional Counselor’s (PLPC’s) and other clinicians get the opportunity to hone and advance their skills and experience in (but not limited to):
- Forensic interviewing
- Mediation
- DBT, REBT, in addition to client centered/CBT.
- Adaptive Integration Interventions
- Providing expert testimony
- Psycho-pharmacology basics
- Multicultural Counseling
- Group counseling
- Assessments
Under direct instruction of skilled professionals, Supervisee’s are afforded the opportunity to become well rounded in all things counseling related. CCA also offers the same courses for CEU’s to agencies and professionals. We offer internship opportunities, and psychiatric rotation placements of medical students and nurse practitioners. We work with schools and hospitals to establish cooperative agreements.
Canopy House™
Canopy House is a Professional Development and Business Event site. While Canopy CC utilizes Canopy House for its core courses in continuing education, School Based services, and assessment, Reservations can be made for the following by outside persons/entities:
- Continuing Education Courses
- Tutoring
- Business Meetings
- Luncheons
- Professional Development
- Employment testing
- Groups
During non training times, Canopy House is available for entities who need space to move, create and teach. Options to reserve can be by the hour as needed or on a weekly/monthly basis with no long term commitments.
Rates are all inclusive and vary by time frame reserved, space requested, and length of contract.
Ivy Media & Press™
Ivy Media & Press (IMP) is the publishing house for Canopy Counseling and Consulting. IMP was created by the owner of Canopy Counseling and Consulting in 2012 while working for World known indie press Crushing Hearts and Black Butterfly publishing (now CHBB) as a published author, formatter, and cover designer. IMP was created for the purpose of publishing professional writings and works and has been rebranded as the official publishing house for Canopy Counseling and Consulting. IMP is a formal registered publishing house that distributes to all major book selling markets including Amazon, BN, Books a Million and educational institutions. IMP publishes the following:
- Training materials
- Workbooks
- Non-Fiction
- Self Help
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Just Because I Care
Certificate and stationary set
Certificate, Stationary Set, Cup
Certificate, Stationary Set, Cup, mini counseling consult session
Certificate, Stationary Set, Tshirt, Website Shout out
Certificate, Stationery Set, T-shirt, Cup, min counseling consult