Divorce is a special experience of grief and, for most people, second only to the loss of a loved one in terms of its painful impact. Childhood experience is the foundation of emotional experience for the rest of life which is why it is so important to make it as healthy and helpful as it can be. Nearly all of the people who consult me are experiencing some combination of anxiety and depression - a low mood and feelings of unease.
Despite what you may have heard almost everywhere - television, news reports, internet sites, pharmaceutical companies and the medical community - medication is very seldom the best treatment for most people. Many people have come to me because they have tried medication and found it disappointing.
Despite what you may have heard almost everywhere - television, news reports, internet sites, pharmaceutical companies and the medical community - medication is very seldom the best treatment for most people. Many people have come to me because they have tried medication and found it disappointing.
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For the last thirty-five years Dr Martin has provided counseling and psychotherapy for adults, couples and older adolescents. He spent the first ten years of his career in psychology working at a Catholic counseling center, providing services for Catholic religious and diverse lay people. For the last twenty-five years he has been in independent practice in Naperville.
Your child has different needs as she/he grows and develops. Good parenting means being able to understand these changes so that you can consistently respond in ways that are best for your child. We only get to be a child once. Because the experience in childhood is the foundation of emotional life, it is important to make it as good as it can be.
Often, persons struggling with grief - whether over the loss of a parent, child, spouse, partner or friend - do so feeling completely alone. When the funeral is over and everyone else is back to normal, the person who has lost a loved one is left with a huge hole in his or her life. Everything that was "we" is now just "me".
Childhood experience is the foundation of emotional experience for the rest of life - which is why it is so important to make it as healthy and helpful as it can be. Good parenting means understanding the changing needs of your child as they grow so that you can respond to them in ways that are best at any given time.
The first session of psychotherapy is much like many first meetings. It consists of both of us beginning to get to know each other and exploring whether we can work well together. You can expect to describe the circumstances that brought you to treatment and to begin to explore them. I will take an active interest in how this came to be, how you understand the problem and what you would like to accomplish as a result of our work together.
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