About Anchor Counseling Center

Anchor Counseling Center is a private practice that provides therapy to children, adolescents, adults, and families.  We believe in providing professional, reliable, and consistent counseling to improve the well-being of all of our patients.

Anchor Counseling first opened it’s doors in Cumberland, RI in 2009.  Since our original office, we have opened 3 additional offices which are conveniently located in Lincoln, Cranston, and East Providence, Rhode Island.  The offices offer a welcoming, calming, and nurturing environment.  We currently treat about 1700 patients and are always trying to improve our committment to each of you by using the latest research based treatment approaches.

Anchor Counseling Center currently has 17 therapists specializing in an array of mental health issues. All our clinicians can be found on Psychology Today and have been verified.  They are all independently licensed, which means they have been practicing for at least 2 years post-graduate school.

We also have a psychologist on staff to test patients to assist in an appropriate diagnosis and offer treatment suggestions.

Our clinicians specialize in mental health issues such as Anxiety Disorders (OCD, PTSD, GAD, Social Anxiety and Specific Phobias), Mood Disorders (such as Depression, Bipolar Disorder), Eating Disorders, Addiction, Anger Management, Trauma, Grief and Loss, Marital issues, Behavior Disorders (ODD, Conduct Disorder), the Autism Spectrum, Personality Disorders, Sexual Issues, and Attachment issues.

At Anchor, we use many modalities of treatment.  We believe in meeting the patient where they are in life and will use a psycho-dynamic approach to help each person help themselves.  We work with you on developing a treatment plan that will help guide you through your theraputic process.

Our therapists may use Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Solution-focused, Exposure therapy, Imagery, Relaxation Techniques, Rational-Emotive Behavioral Therapy, Family Sytems, and your traditional psycho-therapy.

What makes us different?  We are here for you 24 hours a day 7 days a week.  You can call us with a non-life threatening emergency @ 872-ACCRI-03. There are no pagers-straight phone call.

We are also one of the few practices that offer therapy online through Skype!  Our skype address is anchor.counseling.  We have paypal set up for e-therapy.  We have made it convenient for those that find it difficult to leave their home or have issues with confidentiality.

Whatever the issue maybe, we will listen from our initial contact with you.  We will do our best to find you a good  match for you or your family members with the most appropriate skilled therapist.  We have a patient portal set-up that allows our patients to fill out the necessary paperwork prior to coming to our office.  The time is spent with you.

We promise to work with you, your family, pediatrician, primary care physician to promote a healthy life for all involved.  Our goal is to be there for you and encourage and help motivate you to make the changes you need or want.  Although we try therapy before medication, we do work very closely with Child and Family Psychiatry.  We share an office which makes treating you more convenient with a “one stop shop.”

Anchor Counseling also offers consultation to schools and support parents through psychological testing and make recommendations for your child if they need additional services in order to access the general curriculum in their academic settings.

We are open Monday through Saturdays from 9-9pm.  You can call us to arrange an appointment.  If you would like you can reach us now by clicking here .  This will allow you to reach us by email, text, skype, or iGoogle phone.  We traditionally  respond within an hour!

What makes us different?  We are here for you 24 hours a day 7 days a week.  You can call us with a non-life threatening emergency @ 872-ACCRI-03.  We pride ourselves on communication with our patients.  Each of our therapist can also be reached by email.

We take most insurances and work closely with Employee Assistance Programs.

Anchor Counseling Center currently works with large companies such as Citizens Bank, Amica, Stop and Shop, CVS, and many other large employers.

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Or on twitter by clicking here. Even when your not in our office we continue to post information to foster insight into issues that maybe affecting you and your loved ones.

Let us help you.

Sincerely,

Richard Figueira, LICSW

Clinical Director of Anchor Counseling Center