Establishing A Strong Foundation For Your Marriage
Lasting relationships take work. Learning good communication and intimacy skills that allow for negotiation and compromise will prevent hurtful words and arguments. Discovering areas of individual differences between two people ahead of time and developing intentionality around solving every day problems makes for a friendly environment in which to live. Understanding and accepting of one another's personality will allow you as a couple to complement each other and grow into resilient and happy partners.
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Counseling from a Christian Perspective
Getting in touch with our spiritual center, where hidden messages and untruths are found, is an important part of the counseling process. Conventional ideas about religion and aspects of fear based Christian teachings can be broken down and looked at through the grid of Biblical truth.
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Healing Past Traumatic Experiences
The emotional effects of trauma, whether large or small, are mostly due to our interpretation of the event according to what kind of emotional resources are available at the time. We will naturally use the same coping strategies we learned in childhood. Exploring our traumas can reveal those strategies as well as our triggers. Healing from our past traumas is possible with courage and some effort, utilizing helpful emotional processes designed to revisit the emotional pain in a free and safe environment.
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The Distinctions Between Therapy and Coaching
As people set out to find help and guidance when they have a problem or situation that they can not solve on their own, they often want to know the differences between hiring a therapist or a coach to help them with their problems.
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Six progressive stages of change
If you are reading this webpage, I believe there is a part of you that wants to change some aspect of yourself. We all have something about ourselves we would like to be different. It isn’t usually a matter of “if” we want to change, but "how" to change. There’s something called “homeostasis”, that same type of invisible energy that makes a mobile go back to where it was after we have moved it, that makes us resist change.
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Stages of change theory research and review
The motivation to change has been at the center of hundreds of theories in the field of psychology. Researchers for the National Institute of Health set out to study the process of change by looking at the behaviors of people who changed some specific behavior without any specific type of intervention.
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EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)
There are alternative therapies that go beyond traditional counseling and positive psychology.
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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
The theory behind EMDR is based on the effects of how bi-lateral stimulation on the brain processes information.
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