 Rehabilitation Counseling Services
What is Rehabilitation Counseling?
Rehabilitation Counseling helps people deal with the personal, social, and vocational effects of their disabilities.
Who may benefit?
Rehabilitation Counselors work with people who have:
- Developmental disabilities
- Acquired disabilities; such as Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Blindness
- Learning disabilities
Rehabilitation Counselors assist people with disabilities to increase their capacity to live independently.
Role of Rehabilitation Counselors
- Evaluate the strengths and limitations of individuals
- Provide personal and vocational counseling
- Arrange for vocational training, job placement, medical care and service coordination
- Focus on maintaining employment
What happens in Rehabilitation Counseling?
Rehabilitation Counselors counsel the individual with the disability, and also:
- Interview family members and support-providers;
- Review school, medical and psychological reports;
- Confer and plan with physicians, psychologists, occupational and speech therapists, employers, and school personnel;
- Work closely with schools, Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities (VESID), and the Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped (CBVH).
At Enable, our Rehabilitation Counselors are master's-level trained and Certified Rehabilitation Counselors (CRC).
Enable's Rehabilitation Counselors can also assist with:
- Transition from high school;
- Person-centered planning;
- Vocational assessment;
- Qualifying for Social Security and Medicaid;
- Supported employment;
- Tools for Building Independence (TBI) Group
More Info
Please contact one of our Rehabilitation Counselors:
Amy Carreno, MS, CRC
315/455-7591
Rehabilitation Counseling Services are confidential.
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