Aware Counseling

Aware Counseling, under the leadership of Christi Zerega, is a counseling service that offers a variety of evidence-based therapies to help children, adolescents, adults, and families navigate the challenges that life presents. Here at Aware Counseling, we believe that empowering individuals with the emotional tools to handle all of life's emotions equips them with resilience and the knowledge of how to handle their relationships and the world around them.

Christi Zerega, founder of Aware Counseling, is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and certified Parenting Coordinator and Co-Parenting Counselor. She provides solution-focused and evidence-based therapies integrating the mind and body to assist her clients towards healing and growth. Christi Zerega is a graduate of The Citadel Graduate College with a Master's Degree in Psychology, Clinical Counseling, and The College of Charleston with a Bachelor's of Arts in Communications, with Minors in Health and Psychology. She specializes in working with families experiencing divorce- and custody-related issues, parent-child contact problems, anxiety, depression, behavioral problems, and grief/loss.

Services Offered

At Aware Counseling, we offer a range of services, including Individual Counseling, Co-Parenting Counseling, Parent Coordination Services, Parallel Parenting, Multi-Factor Family Therapy (MFFT), and Parenting Coordination Services. Our services are designed to help individuals and families overcome a variety of challenges, such as anxiety, depression, parenting issues, behavioral challenges, ADHD and learning differences, trauma/PTSD, grief and loss, life transitions, self-esteem issues, academic, athletic, and social pressures, and divorce issues.

Co-Parenting Counseling is a child-focused and confidential process that provides the opportunity for parents to understand and learn basic principles on how to create a new family paradigm that is healthy and positive for the entire family. Recommended for mild to moderate parental conflict, co-parenting counseling is an effective way to minimize litigation and reduce stress on both parents and children.

Parent Coordination Services are recommended for high parental conflict and aim to shield children from parental conflict and loyalty binds. This service reduces stress on both parents and children to minimize litigation and assists children in adjusting to their two homes.

At Aware Counseling, we understand the importance of creating a safe and nurturing environment for children. That's why we offer the Being Aware Parent/Child Event Series, a program designed to raise awareness about the increasing challenges we as parents and professionals face today. The events explore the ways our body language, choice of words and actions, and how we listen, influence how our children feel about themselves, their relationships, and the outside world. Through working with a panel of counseling professionals and gaining insight into how we interact with children, parents can better cultivate emotional intelligence (motivation, self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and social skills) and the connections needed for children to understand, express, and moderate their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

The Being Aware Parent/Child Event Series

The Being Aware Parent/Child Event Series is a program designed to raise awareness about the increasing challenges we as parents and professionals face today. The events, 'Being Aware: Big Feelings, Cooperation and More, ' 'Being Aware: Evolved Interactions, ' and 'Being Aware: Emotionally Resilient Families, ' explore the ways our body language, choice of words and actions, and how we listen, influence how our children feel about themselves, their relationships, and the outside world.

Through working with a panel of counseling professionals and gaining insight into how we interact with children, parents can better cultivate emotional intelligence (motivation, self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and social skills) and the connections needed for children to understand, express, and moderate their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Children will participate in a class with local children's mindfulness teachers, where they will learn about the basic principles of mindful behavior and manners through hands-on and interactive games, crafts, and yoga.

In conclusion, Aware Counseling is a counseling service that offers a range of evidence-based therapies to help individuals and families navigate the challenges of life. Our services include Individual Counseling, Co-Parenting Counseling, Parent Coordination Services, Parallel Parenting, Multi-Factor Family Therapy (MFFT), and Parenting Coordination Services. We believe in the importance of creating a safe and nurturing environment for children, which is why we offer the Being Aware Parent/Child Event Series. Our mission is to change the current mental health trajectory of our children by educating and connecting with parents through family, individual, and co-parent counseling and Parent Coordination services.