Nov 6, 2020 | Child & Teen Counseling, Family Counseling, Individual Counseling
In my family, 2020 started with glad busyness, full of life’s hopeful plans amid increasingly pressurized job environments. When coronavirus came to Colorado, plans were postponed and much of what we had counted on for security and stability moved beyond our reach. ...
Oct 23, 2020 | Family Counseling, Individual Counseling
When you feel anxiety or guilt identify the situation and what is truly in your control and what is in others control. (Sometimes writing it down can help bring clarity) Process what is in your circle of control and look at what you have already done to benefit you or...
Oct 16, 2020 | Child & Teen Counseling, Family Counseling, Individual Counseling
As a therapist I have been trained in understanding that all people have emotional needs. I have learned that our emotions are designed to alert us to specific needs. Often we have life experiences that wound our understanding of these needs. In my previous blog I...
Oct 9, 2020 | Child & Teen Counseling, Family Counseling, Individual Counseling
…and am I having one during a worldwide pandemic? An existential crisis can arise any time we question whether our lives have meaning, purpose or value, and we are negatively impacted by our contemplation. Anyone can experience an existential crisis…at any age. ...
Sep 25, 2020 | Couples & Marriage Counseling, Family Counseling, Individual Counseling
I enjoy hiking 14ers here in Colorado. I have the goal of eventually climbing all 58, although I still have a long way to go. One of the interesting things you’ll find once you get above treeline (about 11,000 feet) are rock cairns. These are human-made stacks of...
Sep 18, 2020 | Couples & Marriage Counseling, Individual Counseling
Anger…that terrifying emotion that so many experience, but so many do not understand. In my time as a therapist I have seen two different reactions to the emotion anger. I have seen people who are ok with anger and in fact enjoy the emotion anger. I have also seen...
