Creating positive change in someone's life in a kind and meaningful way is at the heart of my practice. My approach as a therapist is warm, engaging and encouraging as I assist people to look at their situation, help them sort out their issues, and decide how best to address them. My specialties are relationship, abuse-survival and sexuality/lifestyle issues.
For example: a married couple who want to improve their communication; a divorced couple who want to parent their children while minimizing the impact of their divorce on their kids; couples contemplating divorce; parents/couples divorcing and wanting to do so in a civil manner.
For example: a married couple who want to improve their communication; a divorced couple who want to parent their children while minimizing the impact of their divorce on their kids; couples contemplating divorce; parents/couples divorcing and wanting to do so in a civil manner.
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I define a counselor as a person who does something for the person that they can't do. This is a person who suggests ideas or solutions to the person seeking services. They provide answers to the person, telling them how they are to do something, what they should say in different situations. They take on the role of "the answer man".
For most, panic and other forms of anxiety are INCREDIBLY uncomfortable. But once you understand how they work, why they are in your life, what their function is and how to stop or minimize them; they lose their strength.
When working with someone struggling with one of these conditions, I look at when they occur, what was happening before and then after the incident, what you were thinking before, during and after the attack, what you did and didn't do as a result of the attack.These are all important pieces of the puzzle.
When working with someone struggling with one of these conditions, I look at when they occur, what was happening before and then after the incident, what you were thinking before, during and after the attack, what you did and didn't do as a result of the attack.These are all important pieces of the puzzle.
These are what I call "Original Learning Experiences, " learning something for the very first time. I see a lot of kids (who are still learning things for the first time) with parents that are frustrated because "He just doesn't seem to be "getting it"!, "She is so slow at times!" or "He's just doing this to frustrate me!".
I get so frustrated with him. We spent three hours doing that paper last night, the one that was assigned 2 weeks ago and today, HE FORGETS TO TURN IT IN! I start by showing them my phone and the 6 different reminder lists in it (aside from my calendar). I explain why I have scrap paper on the end-table by my chair there for notes I write to myself for when I get home.
When I was a little kid, I remember, on the very rare occasion, my mother would say that I was throwing a "temper tantrum" (Actually, my brother threw A LOT more tantrums than I. Just saying.). Anyway, I never really knew what a temper tantrum was but I knew I was bad for throwing it and I would then begin to hope Mom didn't tell Dad when he got home from work.
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Andrew
Dec 04, 2018
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