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Abuse
Abuse is a particularly virulent behavior perpetrated by another person or persons that can cause fear, trauma, and loss of self esteem. It can be insidious and shameful. Abuse can take many forms - emotional, physical, psychological, sexual, and spiritual.
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.
Grief and Loss
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.
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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
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.
Stress and Coping
Stress is so common in peoples’ lives that it seems expected.
However stress should not control one's life. Stress affects
relationships, productivity, bodily functions, and mental acuity.
Two of the most common indicators of stress are anxiety and depression.
Some symptoms are:
Anxiety
- Generalized feeling that something is not quite right in you
- Hypervigilance (being constantly overly alert)
- Avoiding places, feelings, thoughts, things
- Panicky feeling
Depression
- 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)
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