For those of us in a state of lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, never before has the world seemed more complicated, yet daily lives more simplified. Our sense of control and stability has been ripped away from us, and we are now required to steer in this tumultuous landscape when the wheel is no…
What is Therapy Like? The therapy process can be difficult, painstaking, surprising, funny, a huge relief, and scary, among other things. Like slow, for example. The only solace I know where slow is concerned is that slow sticks. What you learn, forge, build, take away, do differently stays with you and helps each subsequent change you…
The call came from my wife on November 15th, 2012 while standing in my professor’s office in my first semester of graduate school. “There’s no heartbeat,” are the words I remember most from that searing conversation. Our baby was gone, just like that. I fought off hot tears as I tried to safely drive home…
With the rapid increase of child and adolescent cases of anxiety, parents are scrambling trying to help their children from falling deeper. Some of the most widely used methods of coping with anxiety are cognitive behavioral therapy and art therapy as well as common medications. Although there is evidence that both approaches work, only half…
As we all know, puberty is a very stressful time. It’s a time of change in multiple facets of adolescent lives: physiological, physical, psychological and social as well. It takes some time to get used to all the turmoil. Some of the most shocking physical changes are the growth spurts, new growth of hair and…
MANAGING TIME-A LIFE SKILL WORTH LEARNING As parents prepare their youth for adulthood they focus on over 25 life skills that their child needs to learn and practice at a mastery level prior to entering into their adult years. Why a mastery level? Because if we allow mediocre work at home and in school and…
PARENTING ADULT-LIKE CHILDREN An article to share: With some of my own insights. Parents are often overwhelmed as their children become adults in chronological age yet still have the maturity and judgment of a 15 year old – less. Adult children should be equipped with life skills and motivated to take on adult responsibilities like…
Positive parenting is a construct that we Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors seek to educate and to coach our parents as to the dynamics of such parenting. Parents come with multiple complaints of how their little ones are oppositional and defiant. With a nutrition background of 17 years, connections with a local Nature-path,…
From a Counselor view: The topic of Abortion normally derives two sides: The side of the baby’ right to life as the baby thrives within a natural environment which is healthy and nurturing; although a separate entity. OR The side of the woman, who’s body is doing a very natural thing; is healthy (normally)…
Author: Dr Pamela Beth Collman, Licensed Psychologist The Urgent Need for Competent and Compassionate Emotional Healthcare Services with Pregnant Women and their Children: Replacing Prescription Therapy and the Abuse of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) with Drug-Free Therapeutic Alternatives By virtue of the mind and body state of being pregnant, pregnant women may believe they…