The Unwind Approach integrates Person-Centered Therapy, Logotherapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy while using the Disability Centrality Model to develop a holistic understanding of each client’s life, values, and lived experience.
At Unwind, we believe that one of the core reasons people seek support, especially counseling and therapy, is grief. Grief often exists beneath experiences of loss, change, trauma, identity shifts, and unmet expectations. Understanding and working through grief can be an essential part of healing, growth, and adjustment.
Our
Services
We specialize in disability adjustment counseling for individuals living with disabilities, chronic health conditions, or injuries, as well as their caregiving partners and spouses. We also serve anyone navigating grief, bereavement, or major life transitions.
Individual Psychotherapy
Couples Counseling & Psychotherapy
Group Counseling
Vocational Counseling
Rehabilitation Counseling
How is it different?
Rehabilitation counseling is a holistic counseling specialty that centers disability, chronic illness, injury, and life transitions - not as deficits to fix, but as lived experiences that intersect with identity, relationships, work, and meaning.
Rather than asking “What’s wrong?” rehabilitation counseling asks:
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What has changed?
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What matters most now?
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What barriers—personal, environmental, or systemic—are getting in the way?
Rehabilitation counselors are trained to work at the intersection of:
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Mental health and disability adjustment
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Career and vocational identity
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Medical, social, and environmental systems
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Advocacy and access
This lens is especially helpful for people navigating:
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New or progressive disabilities
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Chronic illness or pain
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Neurodivergence
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Major injuries or medical trauma
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Shifts in work, roles, or independence
Theoretical Approaches
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Person-Centered Therapy
Person-centered therapy is grounded in the belief that people are the experts on their own lives.
Rather than being “fixed” or directed, clients are supported in reconnecting with their own wisdom, values, and capacity for growth. This is especially important when disability or loss has disrupted trust in one’s body or future.
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Logotherapy
Logotherapy focuses on the human drive for meaning, especially in the face of suffering.
Logotherapy does not minimize pain or insist on positivity. Instead, it helps people explore meaning through values, relationships, creative expression, and attitudes toward unavoidable suffering.
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Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
ACT helps build a meaningful life alongside difficult thoughts, feelings and experiences, rather than waiting for them to disappear first.
This compassionate approach is especially helpful for those living with chronic illness and disability, anxiety and depression, grief and loss, and experiencing major shifts in life and identity.
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Disability Centrality Model
The Disability Centrality Model, developed by Dr. Malachy Bishop (2005), helps us understand how disability and chronic conditions affect a person’s life. At Unwind, we use this framework to better understand each client’s unique experiences, values, and priorities. We explore what areas of life matter most to the client, how satisfied they feel in those areas, and how much control they believe they have within them. This information helps guide treatment planning and brings clarity to the often complex experience of living with a disability or chronic condition.