If you are struggling with relationships, having a hard time making decisions, confused about how you feel, or maybe noticing an imbalance in your reactions with daily tasks then attending counselling to help process and resolve these problematic behaviours can be helpful. Individual therapy is the joint process between learning about yourself, setting goals, and working alongside the integrative therapist to help inspire change and improve quality of life.
Whether your relationship is just at infancy or you and your partner have been together for decades constantly learning, engaging, and growing together and individually helps keep the connection strong. Attending therapy is showing hope for the relationship and willingness to improve and resolve interpersonal conflict. The therapeutic space provides a safe place for couples to express their emotions and thoughts that they may fear to share with their partner. Once the identified themes of dissatisfaction are discovered, then collaboratively in sessions a plan to implement change for a healthier functioning relationship can be devised.
Through life stages family discord is bound to occur due to intergenerational, legacy burdens that have yet to be uncovered. Family therapy is to help support, educate, and bring understanding to everyone in the family based on where they are in their developmental stages. Family therapy is structured form of psychotherapy that is focused on reducing conflict, learning how to problem solve and adjust responses based on individual needs, and finding patterns of behaviour that cause the discord. By improving the systems interactions and ability to communicate how they feel and think will allow everyone to express themselves; thereby, allowing the family to maintain a healthy and functional family dynamic.
When using the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS) to explain how “we” can heal from COVID-19 at a micro, mezzo, and macro level it is necessary to examine the many parts of the system that have been created to protect the Self. These parts of a person’s psyche have been created to protect the Self which at times can
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When an individual is beginning therapy expectations may be explicit or implicit. Explicitly, the individual can write down or verbally share what their goals are for themselves and/or the therapist. Implicitly, the individual may display through their behaviours during the sessions or in narrating how they functioned during their time outside of therapy how they are coping, changing, and healing.
It is a delicate dance when your child is transitioning from childhood to pre-teen development because you start to realize they have significant memories and attachments to certain moments in their young lives and you don’t want to be the one to break their spirit. At the same time you don’t think it is socially acceptable for your pre-teen to
Your dignity is not something someone else can take from you, but we are vulnerable and our dignity can be wounded, bruised, negatively impacted and if you’re not aware of how to restore your dignity after a traumatic experience eventually we can lose sight of our self-worth and value. Dr. Donna Hicks (drdonnahicks.com) speaks to “The Role of Dignity in