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About Us

Winell Soures, LCSW-R, SAP, MA

The Practice of Winell Soures, LCSW Pllc is a local behavioral health practice that provides psychotherapeutic services to individuals, couples, families, and organizations seeking results. We are a clinical counseling practice with a teaching, nurturing, and coaching edge. We are holistically centered, action-oriented, and solution-focused. Our vision involves providing emotionally intelligent and culturally responsive holistic healing services to the communities and organizations we serve.

About Our Founder, Owner, and Operator

Winell has worked in the field of human services for the last 23 years in a host of counseling capacities, 16 of which have been in the field of psychotherapy. Winell is also an experienced workshop and training developer and facilitator. She has developed training for OCFS while employed by the State University of New York Rockefeller College, Professional Development Program. Winell holds a master's degree in Social Work from The State University of New York at Albany. She also holds a master's degree in Africana Studies from UAlbany, in which her major comprehensive areas were African Psychology, Research Methodology, and Black Women's Studies.

In addition, Winell is a certified Substance Abuse Professional, a certified Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist, a certified Emotional Intelligence Coach, and a Certified Relationship Workshop Facilitator.

"My focus is to help you develop your definition of wellness and assist you in reaching your desired outcome."

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Our Guiding Values

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Holism

We understand that wellness is comprised of intimately interconnected life areas and circumstances. Thus, we do not focus on just one aspect of a person, unit, or organization's healing without considering and developing a plan to address all aspects of that person’s, unit, or organization's health.

Healing

We believe that healing “is the personal experience of the transcendence of suffering.” (Egnew, 2005) Thus, we value our role in the healing process which aims to restore one back to their original state or a renewed state of well-being to reach one’s desired outcomes. This is fostered by our following two values.

Empathy

The ability to gain others' perspective or understand circumstances through assessment of their feelings and needs.

Cultural

and Socioemotional Responsiveness

We commit to providing a culturally and socioemotional safe and supportive environment that is highly self and socially aware and embeds the principles, tools, and skills of emotional intelligence and cultural competence in our practice.

Services Offered

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*InPerson and remote services available

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Individual Sessions

Couple Sessions

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Family Sessions

Workshops

Disability Advocacy & Life Skills Development (Capital District Only)

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Individual Sessions

This service involves one on one therapeutic sessions centering on supporting your desired change and assisting you in improving your quality of life. We are trained to help you explore your thoughts, feelings, habits, and experiences in order to gain a better understanding about yourself, as well as to help you develop new and hone existing skills to help you achieve your desired outcomes.

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Couples Sessions

Our couples sessions are proactive and strength-based sessions that involve helping both individuals increase emotional intelligence (EI). We will not focus on solely uncovering and addressing the dissatisfaction and distress in the relationship but will use EI to help the couple gain a better understanding of who they are as individuals and as a couple, as well as how they work together as a unit. Not only will we work to assist the couple in improving their skills and/or alleviating their presenting symptoms, but we are also invested in helping the relationship reach a better and healthier level of functioning. All couples are welcomed!

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Family Sessions

Your clinician will utilize several therapeutic assessments to analyze the organizational system of the family as well as explore the health of its interactions and the effectiveness of its communication style. We do not take sides and work diligently to ensure that each member feels heard, understood, and validated. We will work with the family system to develop and maintain healthy boundaries, build empathy, and foster cohesion and healthy communication.

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Workshops

Our therapeutic workshops offer participants the chance to learn new relationship and life skills in brief, intensive courses. This service is perfect if you want to want to supplement mental health services or add to your knowledge, but are hindered by a busy schedule.

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Disability Advocacy & Life Skills Development

(Capital District Only)

Serve as an intermediary between the client, their families, and service providers by answering questions, offering advice and education, representing the client at important meetings as well as resolving grievances. This service includes providing technical assistance to all service providers as well as educate clients and stakeholders on their available options, or on specific products or services, that might be beneficial to them. This might include but is not limited to informing them of available community resources and providing referrals. Provide life skills coaching on self-advocacy, organization, basic money management, conflict resolution, emotional management, and general health. Mentors and provide training for new community habilitation staff and other supports. Point person for crisis intervention.

**This practice is currently not taking any new patients.

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