WELCOME

Explore What’s Next offers psychotherapy, counseling, personal & executive coaching. We provide services for adults, couples, children, adolescents & families in a style that is compassionate, direct, and non-judgmental. Our approach is collaborative to maximize your counseling experience.

Could a Psychological Assessment Help You?

Could a Psychological Assessment Help You?

Sitting in class, you may feel confused, bored, or constantly on edge. Work can feel much the same. At home, everyday responsibilities—cleaning, organizing, or caring for the kids—may feel overwhelming, and you aren’t sure where to start. Sometimes, the overwhelm is...

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A full service counseling and executive coaching practice, Explore What’s Next offers services throughout the lifespan, including children ages five years and up, teens and young adults. The therapists are there to discuss your needs, answer your questions and make a plan. Explore What’s Next has two convenient locations on Delaware Avenue in Buffalo and Sweet Home in Amherst.

Dr. Aletta and the Explore What’s Next therapists provide office hours in a private comfortable setting as well as sessions via video or by phone.

Explore What’s Next therapists offer an assortment of workshops, psycho-educational, supportive and process groups. We update the list here frequently so check in often!

Could a Psychological Assessment Help You?

Could a Psychological Assessment Help You?

Sitting in class, you may feel confused, bored, or constantly on edge. Work can feel much the same. At home, everyday responsibilities—cleaning, organizing, or caring for the kids—may feel overwhelming, and you aren’t sure where to start. Sometimes, the overwhelm is...
Adulting: Doing the hard thing because it’s the right thing.

Adulting: Doing the hard thing because it’s the right thing.

Into Act III of my life, and I still struggle with adulting. Not kidding. It sucks. I tell myself I should be better than this, but I’m not. I’m like a lot, maybe most, human beings, I think. When the going gets tough, I want a blankie and something silly on TV to...
Negative self-talk: Would you be that mean to a friend?

Negative self-talk: Would you be that mean to a friend?

It’s deep winter in the deep north. We’ve been going through the longest below 30F streak in years. The days are getting longer but somehow Western New York missed the memo. I like getting up early, I really do, but that means getting up in the dark. So I get out of...
Welcome to Explore What’s Next

Welcome to Explore What’s Next

Yesterday I was forced to take a pause in the middle of the day. Outside my Explore What's Next office in Elmwood Village, just off Gates Circle, the winds howled, the snow blew, the windows rattled. Kids stayed home from school, snow plows moved methodically...
Life Candy Journaling

Life Candy Journaling

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes When I was six years old I wrote a story about a rabbit.That’s all I remember about it. My mom thought it was genius and rewarded me with lots of hugs and smiles. That was my first memory of the power of writing. Most of my life I’ve...
Let’s Talk about Living with Chronic Illness

Let’s Talk about Living with Chronic Illness

Living with chronic illness affects so many of us. We all have stories to tell. How it first sunk in that something wasn’t right. That the discomfort we were experiencing wasn’t going away. Maybe the fatigue or pain would lift for a few days, bringing hope that maybe...

In our work we want to lower your stress and minimize any surprises. You are vulnerable enough coming into this situation. We want to reduce your worries.

 

We offer an initial 30 minute consultation, at no charge, in the office, with video chat or on the phone. Let’s discuss your needs, answer your questions and make a plan.

You have nothing to lose and a lot to gain by taking this little step.

WELCOME

Explore What’s Next offers psychotherapy, counseling, personal & executive coaching. We provide services for adults, couples, children, adolescents & families in a style that is compassionate, direct, and non-judgmental. Our approach is collaborative to maximize your counseling experience.

Could a Psychological Assessment Help You?

Could a Psychological Assessment Help You?

Sitting in class, you may feel confused, bored, or constantly on edge. Work can feel much the same. At home, everyday responsibilities—cleaning, organizing, or caring for the kids—may feel overwhelming, and you aren’t sure where to start. Sometimes, the overwhelm is...

read more

The Studio at Explore What’s Next offers gentle, nurturing self-care classes & workshops. We explore yoga, meditation & mindfulness as well as provide workshops, seminars & groups in a wide-array of subjects, from baby-proofing your relationship, living with chronic illness to financial wellness & more. All offerings are open to the public in our beautiful, ADA compliant space. Whatever you need, from individual counseling, help with parenting your teen, untangling a challenging relationship, to expert coaching for your business, the professionals of Explore What’s Next are here to support you.

Dr. Aletta and the Explore What’s Next therapists provide convenient office hours in a private, comfortable setting.
Whatever you need, from individual counseling, help with parenting your teen, untangling a challenging relationship, to expert coaching for your business, the professionals of Explore What’s Next are here to support you.

Dr. Aletta and the Explore What’s Next therapists provide office hours in a private comfortable setting as well as sessions via video or by phone.

Explore What’s Next therapists offer an assortment of workshops, psycho-educational, supportive and process groups. We update the list here frequently so check in often!

Show Up!

Show Up!

rock/hard place. 5”X5”, watercolor & ink. painted by LVG Aletta When it's hard to write I don't write anything which is wrong. I'm learning through developing my visual art, painting, sketching, that the way to be creative is to practice my art every day, even a...
Community Health and Advocacy Conference

Community Health and Advocacy Conference

Explore What's Next is a psychotherapy practice located in Western New York that stands out from other regional practices due to our support on trauma prevention and community intervention. As a forward-looking and proactive organization, we believe in looking towards...
What to Expect in Counseling

What to Expect in Counseling

Most people who begin counseling are not sure what to expect. There are so many myths about what happens in counseling that can be misleading or contradictory. For instance, in the movies or on TV shows we see the main character lying down on a couch and talking about...
The Only New Year’s Resolution I Need

The Only New Year’s Resolution I Need

My friend asked me if I made any New Year's resolutions. "I made only one resolution: to be nicer... to myself." She laughed. It was almost a spit-take! "I thought you were going to say 'be nicer to other people'," she said. "Nope," I said, "I'm good there. The...
The Tricky SCAMP of Overcoming Skin Picking and Hair Pulling Also Known As Body Focused Repetitive Behavior

The Tricky SCAMP of Overcoming Skin Picking and Hair Pulling Also Known As Body Focused Repetitive Behavior

The Tricky SCAMP of Overcoming Skin Picking and Hair Pulling Body Focused Repetitive Behavior Do you pick at your skin or have obsessive nail biting habits? Do you pull out your hair without awareness? If so, you may be struggling with a body-focused repetitive...
9 Steps to Getting Organized for a New Semester of College: Part 2

9 Steps to Getting Organized for a New Semester of College: Part 2

If you have not done so already, check out my blog post here on Part 1, Steps 1 – 5. Okay, you got your folders and notebooks (digital or hardcopy). Maybe you even organized your email and desktop.  You also got your calendar/ planner and a to-do list ready to go!...
5 Tips to Help Parents Survive Distance Learning

5 Tips to Help Parents Survive Distance Learning

Can Parents Survive Distance Learning? The answer is highlighted in 7 Tips! Kids with Attention Challenges & Remote Learning, your child is the main focus of distance learning, but don’t forget a KEY ingredient to your child’s success: YOU.  It might be easy...
7 Tips! Kids with Attention Challenges & Remote Learning

7 Tips! Kids with Attention Challenges & Remote Learning

Parent's all over the Western New York Region are experiencing the difficulty of connecting children with Attention Challenges to Remote Learning. Having the kids home 24/7 AND for many, also working from home, AND helping them each step of the way with their school...

In our work we want to lower your stress and minimize any surprises. You are vulnerable enough coming into this situation. We want to reduce your worries.

 

We offer an initial 30 minute consultation, at no charge, in the office, with video chat or on the phone. Let’s discuss your needs, answer your questions and make a plan.

You have nothing to lose and a lot to gain by taking this little step.