Couple Relationships
Relationships between two people are incredibly significant. When strife occurs in that relationship, great pain and frustration can result. Couple relationships apply to married, engaged, serious dating, partnered, parent-child, and close friendships.

Family Communications
Our families influence us in many ways: values, morals, behaviors, expectations, spiritual beliefs, and ways to communicate. Some have served us well, some have not. Communication is a broad-spectrum system of messages. It requires careful understanding and self-examination. It means far more than words alone.

Life Transitions
Life is full of transitions. Whether they make us happy or sad, they all require change and effort. Sometimes we need someone to help us through them.

• Marriage – planning, leaving, remarrying, blending families
• Families – moving out, moving away, starting a family, or watching the kids grow up and leave
• Employment – starting a job, loosing a job, retiring, changing careers
• Health - health concerns for self or a loved one, chronic illness, progressive disease, terminal illness
• Spiritual – changes, conflicts, practices

Life Transitions Women's Group
Life Transitions Women's Group is for single, married, divorced or widowed women who are experiencing a transition in any one or more of these areas of their lives. Led by Ginny Kreeft and Rita Lewis, MSW, RN, it is a small group that meets for 8 weeks. If you are experiencing a new stage of life and are looking to learn from and support other women in similar circumstances, this group may be for you. Call or email to inquire.

Loss and Grief
Loss means any kind of loss. It could be loss of someone significant in your life through death, divorce, relationship breakup, or loss of a pet, a dream, a job, health or home.

Grief follows loss. Grieving is a process with no fixed time frame. It is possible to grieve someone or something that happened recently or many years ago. We can grieve people, things, and events.

Post Traumatic Stress
Trauma evokes images of hurricanes, wars, earthquakes, fires, and terrorists. Trauma can also encompass abuse of any kind at any time in one’s life, childhood neglect, accidents, illnesses, surgery, loss of a loved one.

Not everyone who experiences one of these events is traumatized. However, if you are experiencing persistent and unresolved behavioral problems, anxiety, nightmares, or avoiding certain places, people, or thoughts that interfere with your daily functioning, you may be experiencing post-traumatic effects.

EMDR Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is an accelerated form of information processing often used with people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. It can also be used to help with pain management, addictions, anxiety, depression, abuse and neglect. This method of treatment has been well researched and has been shown to be quite effective with many people, although not everyone is a good candidate for EMDR.

• Generalized feeling that something is not quite right in you
• Hypervigilance (being constantly overly alert)
• Avoiding places, feelings, thoughts, things
• Panicky feeling

• Lacking motivation to do anything
• No interest in what used to interest you
• Fatigue that persists
• Crying for no apparent reason
• Change in eating and/or sleeping habits
• Thoughts or plans of suicide (SEEK HELP IMMEDIATELY)