4 consumers. SSCC ensures that all of its therapists are extensively trained in the provision of TMH services prior to beginning to provide services within the agency and provides extensive continuing education and certification opportunities for its active therapists and supervisors. This enables the ongoing fueling of New Jersey’s high demand for quality mental health care that is accessible, affordable, and top-of-the-line. SSCC employs a community-based approach, surveying the needs to areas across New Jersey to determine its latest group offerings in particular. If there is a demand to be met, SSCC can be relied on to follow through to provide that helping hand in need, no matter what the tide may bring for the state’s residents and their families. From online Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills training groups for children, teens, and adults; yoga for emotional regulation and resiliency; and in-person walk and talk therapy; as well as online therapeutic book club groups, this agency offers it all. Licensed social workers, counselors, and psychologists are employed by SSCC and all work to serve the agency’s mission Supportive Space Counseling Center, LLC. (SSCC) emerged in early 2019 as the state of New Jersey’s first entirely online outpatient counseling center. Since then, the agency has been steadfast to its mission to expand access to high-quality mental health care for children, teens, adults, and families across the state, serving consumers from every single county to date. Working with individuals from all walks of life and cultural backgrounds, Supportive Space Counseling Center likewise employs a diverse team of clinical staff specializing in the treatment of nearly any issue that is mental health or wellness related. The agency’s founder, Dr Lindsay Scholz cites, “Most frequently we have been seeing an influx in individuals who are facing newfound problems for the first time in their lives, and which mostly seem to have stemmed from the various facets of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. With that, it is our mission to do absolutely all we can to meet the demand or uptick in the need for our services that the pandemic seems to in part have caused.” Dr Scholz has been a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in New Jersey and Nationally Board Certified in TeleMental Health (BC-TMH) for nearly a decade and has accumulated a wealth of experience during this time. Dr. Scholz has not only founded SSCC and serves as the agency’s clinical director, but continues striving to ensure the experience all consumers get through SSCC is a personalized one unlike any other agency out there – and it appears she is doing so exceptionally well. With an over 93% client retention rate consistently since its launch in 2019 and with consumer satisfaction scores truly off the charts, this agency is doing something more than just right; it is truly changing the industry for the better and for the consumer. Dr Scholz has worked in nearly every mental health setting one could imagine over her last near 10 years in this line of work and currently serves as an adjunct professor in the School of Applied and Behavioral Sciences at Mercy College in New York City. She also serves as a clinical supervisor in her work with students from varying nationally accredited counseling, social work, and psychology graduate programs across New Jersey. TMH is a field that is always rapidly changing, and while many providers have transitioned to providing online care due to the pandemic, not nearly all agencies or practices have the training and competency required to provide these services to the highest of standards, which can have a negative trickle-down effect impacting Mental Health Visionary of the Year 2023 (Northeast USA): Lindsay Scholz & Most Accessible Teen - Adult Mental Wellness Telehealth Service 2023 - New Jersey Supportive Space Counseling LLC.
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