Focus Forward Counseling and Consulting

Specialties

Relationships can be so challenging and it can be a real struggle to achieve the relationships we want. Help is available. We specialize in helping individuals, couples, and families create the relationships they seek. During more than fifteen years of assisting people from all walks of life we’ve found that strength-​based approaches to counseling can be very successful. In our work together you’ll gain a new understanding of relationship patterns and new skills that can help you change your relationships.

We accept many major insurance plans and also work on a sliding fee scale to help make counseling affordable. Please call or email today and let’s see if there’s a good fit between what you’re looking for and the counseling services we can offer.

Meet the Business Owner

Brad Hieger, Ph.D., L.P.C..

Business Owner

Dr. Brad takes an active, strength-​based approach to counseling. He has extensively practiced brief therapy and is accustomed to seeing noticeably positive changes in clients’ lives in short periods of time.

For over 10 years Dr. Brad has held the roles of counselor, supervisor, professor, and psychometrist. He has had clinical positions in college counseling centers, psychiatric hospitals, drug and alcohol centers, career counseling centers, community mental health centers, and private practices. In addition to his professional practice, Brad has taught undergraduate and graduate psychology classes at The Pennsylvania State University, Illinois State University, Argosy University, Shorter College, and Kennesaw State University.

Brad earned his M.A. at Ball State University in 1997 with a double major in Counseling and Social Psychology and his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at The Pennsylvania State University in 2007.