James Vastag
MA, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist Associate (LMFTA)
Phone: (317) 474-6448 ext. 107
Email: James@GroffandAssociates.com
LinkedIn Profile: James Vastag
Education:
- MA degree, Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, IN, Marriage and Family Therapy.
Counseling Specialties:
- Individual therapy: children, adolescents, and adults
- Couples therapy: premarital, marital, and extramarital affair issues
- Family therapy: changes in family structure, parenting and behavior concerns, school concerns, etc.
- Public safety counseling
- Grief and loss issues
- Trauma/crisis concerns and experiences
Training and Experience:
- Twelve years experience in public safety
- Completing the Mental Status Exam – Practical, Hands On Lessons from the field – seminar to “help improve clinician’s ability to preform Mental Status Evaluations by teaching them critical information generally not covered on a graduate level”. – Cross Country Education
- Uses a Christ-centered perspective to help people navigate life’s rough waters and to help each client reach their full potential using their God-given talents
- Helped facilitate IMAGO weekend workshops on several occasions, using couple dialogs as a way of increasing communication and working through “stuck places”
- Certified Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) member – specialized training in working with people in crisis, with disabilities, or other special needs in order to get them the help and services needed, thus reducing or preventing the involvement of the criminal justice system
- NOVA certified (National Organization of Victim’s Assistance) – organization dedicated to helping victims and their communities work through a crisis by involving necessary resources and facilitating group/peer discussions
- Pregnancy Loss & Unresolved Grief – A Time to Listen; A Time to Heal – workshop in healing the trauma and unspoken pain of abortion, presented by Dr. Theresa Burke, Rachel’s Vineyard Ministries
Classes/Seminars/Groups Available:
- “Domestic Abuse: What Is It and Why Should I Know About It?”