When a couple decides to divorce, they are faced with the end of their relationship and their inability to continue to love and value each other as they once did. This can be painful, confusing, and disappointing for them.
Moves are difficult! People relocate for many reasons: a new job, job transfer, being closer to family, seeking adventure, or countless other motivations. Whatever your reason, moving means saying goodbye to people and places you love, leaving behind your familiar home, habits, and hangouts.
The act of communicating is the sharing of information with someone else. We communicate with the world through our faces, our bodies and our words. Whether or not you're aware of it we always use non-verbal as well as verbal communication.
I'm Linda Weiskoff, the Director of the Heartwork Counseling Center and in this article I discuss shame and vulnerability.
When a couple marries and decides to have children, they create a family, a special unit set apart from other people, with their own ways of doing things, customs and values. The children depend on their parents to provide a solid foundation for them.
Grief is a natural emotional reaction to a loss. It is an expression of the sorrow we feel. In addition to grieving after the death of a loved one, we react to other losses with grief. People will grieve after a divorce or a break-up with a partner, or the loss of a friendship.
Stress can be both negative (problems with finances, relationships, etc.) and positive (moving, the birth of a baby, etc.) Stress can be defined as a life event or situation that causes some imbalance in your life.
Emotional Resilience is having the strength you need to handle what life gives us and the changes in our lives. The APA (American Psychological Association) defines Resilience as: "the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult and challenging life experiences…"
You may have heard of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) before. CBT refers to a group of behavioral therapies that are frequently used by therapists to treat psychological disorders.
Judith Lewis Herman was the first psychiatrist and scholar to propose Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) as a new disorder in 1992, within her book Trauma & Recovery and an accompanying article.
Narcissistic abuse is being talked about more and more often. On YouTube and other popular websites, clinicians and others are alerting us to the effects of this form of emotional abuse.
Values are the most fundamental beliefs a person can have. They help to determine what a person prioritizes, who they want to be, how they live their lives and how they interact with their community.
A topic that we have all been grappling with is how to cope with the trauma of COVID-19. Trauma is the response to a deeply distressing or disturbing event that overwhelms our capacity to cope.
Are you a trauma survivor? A novel therapy approach that might work for you is called Internal Family Systems or IFS.
Going back to work may be both a help and a challenge. In addition to paying the bills, our jobs provide us with a way to structure our day, as well as a way to feel good about our accomplishments.