Alliance Counseling Associates

Alliance Counseling Associates is a private mental health practice with offices located in Bowling Green and Glasgow, Kentucky. Locally, we serve all areas of the Barren River region consisting of Warren County, Barren County, Simpson County, Allen County, Logan County, Butler County, Edmonson County, Hart County, Metcalfe County and Monroe County. We were founded in January of 2011 in an effort to improve and expand mental health treatment and education. Alliance is built on the premise of utilizing a strong team of professionals who collaborate with one another and the community to maximize what is best for those in need. Our professionals include Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Clinical Socials Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors and Licensed Professional Counselor Associates.

Our mission is to form solid collaborative relationships with our clients through the use of traditional and holistic interventions while assisting each person in finding opportunities to realize their potential, increase hope that change and growth are possible, and improve the overall quality of their lives. We also believe that providing inspiration, humor and mental health education to everyone we can reach is of great importance. We are a company of people who believe in treating every human being with respect, equality and a helping hand.

We work with people of all ages and backgrounds. We provide services to those with Kentucky Medicaid who are at risk of being placed in foster care, a hospital or other higher level of care in order to keep them stabilized within their current home environment. The trauma of being taken from a persons family can be lifelong and we strive to prevent that in any way possible. We work with those who have substance use challenges. Alliance has an AODE license where we provide DUI services including Prime for Life educational classes, outpatient groups and individual counseling. Alliance has providers who are on most of the major private insurance panels to include Anthem, Humana, TriCare, etc. Since the Alliance team believes in giving back to the community we also have a program called Alliance Outreach where we have supervised masters level interns providing counseling sessions to individuals free of charge.

Some common focus area's of treatment are: challenges related to intellectual or developmental disabilities, family or marital conflicts, common issues related to adolescents or early childhood, depression, anxiety, grief, certified mediation, obsessions and compulsions, substance use, custody issues, interpersonal conflicts, poor self esteem or self worth, anger management, impulse control, abuse (physical, sexual and/or emotional), out of control behaviors, mood instability to include the subtypes of Bipolar Disorder, challenges associated with mid-life issues, career changes, facing mortality with aging, and many more. If Alliance is unable to assist a person with what they need, a referral is made out of the agency to the most appropriate treatment provider.

The following quote speaks to the premise of life and mindfulness and the overall goal we hope for ourselves and others.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon