Mindful Connection Institute, LLC

 
Phone Number:
330-516-4002
Office:
725 Boardman-Canfield Rd. Unit A
Boardman, OH 44512
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Contact:
Dr. April Topfer, Ph.D.

Services Offered

In Office Sessions
Phone Sessions
Online Chat Sessions
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About

Licensed clinical psychologist offering comprehensive services, such as individual and group counseling and psychological assessments (for neurodivergent conditions, such as ADHD and autism, mood disorders, and personality) for adults and teens.

We are a neurodivergent and gender affirming practice!

Counseling provides a caring, compassionate, and mindful presence with a focus on relationships, trauma, mood, and increasing self-awareness to obtain goals. Approaches include Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) with aspects of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). Specific issues addressed include adoption, attachment, unresolved loss/grief, etc. The therapeutic relationship dynamic is interactive, creative, process-oriented, and somatic (body) oriented. A psychospiritual developmental frame is constantly held, even if not explicitly made aware to patients; this includes the recognition that the unconscious, individuation, healing, and wholeness are essential to reaching one's authentic and true nature.

Group counseling includes closed groups for establishing mindfulness

Specialty

Qualifications

Education
I instantly knew I wanted to pursue a doctoral degree in Transpersonal Psychology after I first learned its name in Dr. Bache's Transpersonal Psychology class at Youngstown State University. I was drawn to specialize in Transpersonal Psychology because it involves an alternative, holistic approach to traditional, psychodynamic psychological orientations. Transpersonal Psychology is defined as "beyond ego"; it is the integration of one's spirituality and their psych. Jung is considered one of the first transpersonal psychologists.

After I moved to Northern California, I earned my master's and doctoral degree in clinical psychology at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP) and Sophia University (formerly known as the ITP) in Palo Alto, California.
In Practice Since
2019
License Number
P.07863

Billing

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