The Mission Covey’s mission is to provide quality care and create a community for those who struggle with hoarding and the people who love them.
Changing the Narrative
For so long, those who struggle with hoarding have gone without specialized care. Hoarding has been discussed as if it is a personal failure or character flaw. Many approaches have focused on clearing the stuff without considering the people behind it.
Instead of receiving compassionate, trauma-informed care, those who struggle with hoarding have often been stigmatized and pushed to move faster than their capacity allows.
You deserve better.
Despite how often people struggle to part with their possessions, it is rarely treated with compassion. Hoarding deserves to be treated with the same respect and empathy as other mental health concerns.
Using narrative therapy, we work together to identify the stories that maintain hoarding behavior in your life.
You are not a problem and neither is your stuff. We simply need to build a new relationship with your possessions.
It’s time to change the story we tell ourselves about hoarding.
Healing Together
Many approaches to hoarding focus on the person with hoarding behavior. This can further the isolation and shame that make hoarding so hard to talk about.
Additionally, it overlooks the loved ones and community connections that people may have.
Hoarding impacts everyone who lives in the home. Family conflict can make hoarding behavior worse. Family connection can also be an incredible resource for healing.
Lasting change happens when the whole family is supported through it.
Everyone deserves a functional home.
Covey: [KUHV-ee]
a small group of birds, especially partridges; a small group of people or things
The name, Covey Counseling Center, reflects the family groups, or coveys, that quails live in. It represents the strength and care we find in community with others. The quail serves as a reminder that we are better together.
Welcome to the Covey.
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Narrative therapy is a collaborative approach to therapy where we work to separate your problem from you.
When you no longer build an identity around a problem in your life, you are free to build a new one. We work together to create a story that lines up with your values.
I bring knowledge about hoarding and you are the expert on your life. Together, our perspectives can reduce the shame that surrounds hoarding and clear the path for change.
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Narrative therapy takes a nonjudgmental perspective of hoarding.
By reducing the shame around hoarding, narrative therapy can help people try out new strategies to reduce clutter.
You are not defined by hoarding. You have coping strategies that are no longer working. Together, we can find new ones.
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Narrative therapy does not have a specific timeline. People vary in the length of therapy they need to see change. Some may improve quickly and others more slowly.
We'll check in together around sessions 5 to 10 and talk about whether this approach is the right fit for you.
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If your spouse or family member does not want to participate in therapy, that’s okay.
I do not recommend pushing someone who does not want therapy into the process.
If the person who struggles with hoarding does not want therapy and you feel distressed, I can still offer support and help to cope with the stress of witnessing hoarding.
I can provide support for individuals, couples, and entire families if they want to participate, but change can happen even if it is only for some of your family members.
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I do not provide child or adolescent therapy outside of family therapy.
If you have minor children who would like to participate in family therapy, please let me know because there are different intake processes for minor children.