Welcome to Midwest Encouragement and Counseling Center
NOTICE TO CLIENTS
MECC serves all clients regardless of ability to pay. Discounts for essential services are offered based on family size and income.
For more information, please call our office at 1-308-236-0500.
No Surprises Act
Effective January 1, 2022, a ruling went into effect called the "No Surprises Act" which requires practitioners to provider a "Good Faith Estimate" to individuals who are uninsured or utilize self-pay.
Click the button below to read more about the No Surprises Act and our Good Faith Estimate.
Good Faith Estimate
COVID-19 UPDATE
Dear MECC Clients and Families,
MECC continues to monitor recommendations from DHHS regarding the standards and expectations with masks, telehealth and in person sessions.
Please call our office to inquire on the most up to date policies for our office.
Thank you for your flexibility and patience.
Sincerely,
Jody Angel-Trejo, LIMHP
MECC Owner
About Us
Welcome to Midwest Encouragement and Counseling Center (MECC). MECC is dedicated to helping individuals and families experience healing in their lives and relationships with others. The professionals at MECC are committed to restoring lives impacted by stress and personal challenges. Our work integrates traditional and non-traditional approaches to restoring wellness in the lives of individuals we meet. Our mission is to apply creative counseling techniques that will unearth long-standing behavior and relational patterns, trauma or negative perceptions that may be preventing one from experiencing a more fulfilling and meaningful life.
MECC helps address complex issues utilizing various approaches to include parent-child dyadic interactions as a means of healing. We also believe strongly in working cooperatively with other professionals and experts involved with each individual, as a team approach to holistic healing practices.
Please call us today at 1-308-236-0500.
Thank you,
Jody Angel-Trejo, Owner
Meet Our Team
Our Services
Providing Individual, Family and Play Therapy in a warm, creative space. Our goal is to ensure that children, adolescents and adults with a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues feel safe and comfortable in our environment.
Private waiting rooms can be offered upon request.
The following array of services are provided within our practice.
Individual
Therapy
All therapists at MECC are trained to support individuals in their journey to healing through the process of CBT, skill development, reflective practices and offering a warmth that allows each person entering our offices to feel safe in reflecting their struggles and needs. We offer a highly personalized approach tailored to each of our client's individual needs to help attain the personal growth they are striving for.
Family
Therapy
At MECC we believe, "When trauma or suffering occurs in the context of relationships, healing then also occurs in the context of relationships." Our highly trained staff have extensive knowledge of therapeutic parenting skills that support children and adolescents who have experienced hurt in their attachment relationships. This process also is a creative, reflective approach to meeting the needs of the client and their family members.
Child Parent
Psychotherapy
As a dyadic intervention tool, CPP promotes and strengthens a close, safe and nurturing relationship between a parent and their child, age five or under. CPP is geared toward young children who have experienced at least one traumatic event or ongoing stressors in their life. CPP involves a wide array of strategies to include: Attachment-Focused Interventions, Trauma Informed, Behavior-Based Interventions, Parents Support and Coaching, Interactive Child-Parent Play, Verbal discussion of interactions and cuing patterns between the parent and the child. Those therapists trained in CPP are Jody Angel-Trejo, LIMHP, Jordan McCoy, LMHP, Briana Woodside, LMHP and Jeslynn Love, PLMHP.
PCIT
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is a dyadic behavioral intervention for children (ages 2.0 – 7.0 years) and their parents or caregivers that focuses on decreasing externalizing child behavior problems (e.g., defiance, aggression), increasing child social skills and cooperation, and improving the parent-child attachment relationship.
CBT
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) aims to improve mental health by focusing on challenging and changing unhealthy cognitive distortions. CBT has been designed to treat depression, anxiety and other mental health needs. CBT includes a number of psychotherapies and interventions using evidence based techniques and strategies. All therapists at MECC are trained and utilize CBT.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy treatment that was originally designed to alleviate stress associated to traumatic memories. However, EMDR has expanded to an evidence based intervention for acute trauma, complex trauma, anxiety and other mental health conditions. Those therapists at MECC trained in EMDR are Jody Angel-Trejo, LIMHP, Sara Sanson, LMHP and Jordan McCoy, LMHP.
TF-CBT
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is a therapy designed specifically to address the emotional and mental health needs of children, adolescent and adult survivors and families who are struggling to overcome the harming effects of early trauma. TF-CBT is an evidence based practice that supports the survivor with the emotional, cognitive and visceral impacts of trauma by integrating the information in a manner that allows the survivor to experience a reduction in triggers and emotionality related to the traumatic event. Those therapists trained in TF-CBT are: Jody Angel-Trejo, LIMHP, Sara Sanson, LMHP, Jordan McCoy, LMHP, Jeslynn Love, LMHP and Meghan Horton, LMHP.
COSP
Circle of Security Parenting is a parenting class that supports parents in understanding their role in creating secure attachment patterns for their children. This class is a reflective class that is held in a group format and supports all parents, despite their history with their children the insight to understand how to develop healthy cuing patterns with their child, healthy boundaries and knowing when and how to "take charge as needed" with their child. Parenting can be a very difficult process, specifically when your child has struggled with past attachment patterns, our goal is to strengthen each parents confidence through this class in moving forward in understanding and meeting their child's relational needs. Those trained to facilitat COSP classes are: Jody Angel-Trejo, LIMHP, Jordan McCoy, LMHP, Sara Sanson, LMHP and Briana Woodside, LMHP.
TANT
Trauma Art Narrative Therapy is a creative therapy to support children who feel more comfortable expressing themselves through art as a form of healing. Creative arts has been a proven tool that supports children in expressing what they cannot verbalize. This tool is widely used by clinicians to support all individuals, regardless of age in exploring and expressing deep pain related to their experiences. Those therapist trained in TANT are Jody Angel-Trejo, LIMHP.
DBT
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is an intervention used by all therapists within MECC to support therapists.
LMHP
Individual
Supervision
Cost per individual hour is $100. per hour for supervision towards licensure in the state of NE. Jody Angel-Trejo, LIMHP, NCC.
MECC values the benefits of creative arts and play therapy. All therapists within the practice utilize the play therapy room, expressive arts and the sand tray to support children in exploring pre verbal memories, traumatic memories and emotionally charged memories/experiences. Because play is a child's number one form of communication up to the age of five/six, these tools have been proven to be very effective with many children.