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The Power of Words

Words are so powerful. And yet our lexis, while it is shared, in no way shares the same semantics. In layman’s terms, the same word can have many different subtleties of meanings. So how is it we assume we know what people are talking about when they talk to us?

Words are such crude representations of our inner worlds. Our words will try to describe our conflicts, or will try to deny our conflicts, they will try and express our feelings, or forbid the expression of our feeli

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Added by Jenny Lynn on February 11, 2010 at 10:56am — No Comments

!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL !!!

Here's to a great and affluent 2010. Lets make it the year you choose to improve your therapy practice. Take care and bye for now. Regards Gary & Dawn Continue

Added by Gary Graye on January 4, 2010 at 12:51pm — No Comments

The California Counseling Maze

Please forgive me if this has already been hashed to death. I'm new here and can't find this question addressed anywhere on this site. I just moved from Atlanta, GA to Carlsbad, CA. With my M.Ed in Counseling coupled with an expired GA counseling certification......6 years counseling experience - but no License.....I'm trying to figure out what it takes to start a counseling practice in California - - one that can hopefully work with Insurance companies. In my research, I've read through the in… Continue

Added by Evelyn on December 18, 2009 at 12:11am — No Comments

Your Self Prescription: Creating the Empowered and Passionate Music to Your Own Unique Life Rhythm!

I have three questions for you: * Do YOU want less stress in your life? * Do YOU want to live more passionately (and more $$ wealthy) without working so hard? * Do YOU want the secret (and BEST) Stress Management tools and resources? Join me for The Personal Empowerment Program Monthly Coaching Teleclass http://kendonaldson.com/teleseminar You will want to be t… Continue

Added by Ken Donaldson on November 12, 2009 at 5:37pm — 1 Comment

Mentorship within the professional realm

As a non-traditional graduate student working towards my MS in Community Counseling, and obtaining my LPC. I find it perplexing trying to obtain the appropriate mentorship relationship within the field of counseling. Often the terrain has been ambiguous; at one point there seems to be a connection until I present my views outside of the box pertaining to multicultural issues and the connection between mind and body as being a whole entity. Perhaps it is the environment that I am enmeshed within… Continue

Added by Sherri Greene on October 2, 2009 at 12:34pm — 2 Comments

Unlocking the Mysteries of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

I am tired of the mind vs body debate that rages through clinicians and patients alike when it comes to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I'm tired because as yet, no one has fully recognised that to separate mind from body is like trying to develop an egg with no yolk. The albumen is part of the egg and to separate, egg from yolk, is to render each part useless to the whole. And that's my contention. How on earth can we treat one aspect of ill health without treating the greater unit that is the organ… Continue

Added by Jenny Lynn on July 29, 2009 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Do you turn towards, turn away or turn against?

Have you thought much about what makes some relationships work and others fail? I have been interested in this question, through working with individuals and couples with relationship issues over many years. I am always interested in what helps some couples have loving, respectful and successful relationships and others experience constant pain and heartache. Dr John Gottman, professor of psychology at the University of Washington has researched couples for close to 40 years. Dr. Gottman has de… Continue

Added by Clinton Power on June 29, 2009 at 7:17am — 1 Comment

How and Why we Lose Self-Esteem?

How and Why we Lose Self-Esteem There are some periods of our life when we become stressed about our circumstances. These can be avoiding pain, family issues, financial and emotional pressures and fatigue from over working, and many other daily occurrences. However, many problems we face in our lives arise from the lack of true life meaning. When we lack clarity and purpose in our life at times, our ego takes some control and we feel some cleverness to hide ignorance and usually obscure… Continue

Added by Dimitrios Toussis on May 29, 2009 at 12:13am — No Comments

Incongruence causes Depression?

I found myself a few days ago, explaining in the broadest possible terms to my partner, one of my client's dilemmas. Having suffered from depression for nearly 2 years, she had been pushed from pillar to post, she'd been drugged up repeatedly, prescribed CBT and was on the waiting list for it, and had begun to identify herself as a Mental Health Patient. I stopped here in my explanations. To elaborate a little for the professional reader read on. Every which way she turned, she was faced with t… Continue

Added by Jenny Lynn on May 14, 2009 at 6:39am — 2 Comments

Is your Client's Religious Belief Causing their Problem?

This will be perhaps one of the most controversial posts I'll ever write. But the question "How much does your client's religious belief system hinder their recovery from their emotional stress or strain?" may be central to our understanding of what we can expect from our interventions in psychotherapy and hypnotherapy. How we perceive the world within our English culture may be broadly common to most of us but when an individual has strong religious beliefs, how do we accommodate that variable… Continue

Added by Jenny Lynn on May 13, 2009 at 6:33pm — No Comments

CFS Sufferers.....Are your Mind and Body on good terms?

This illusive condition is often poorly understood not only by the general public, but by many health professionals in the Medical system. Even special centres dedicated to the treatment of CFS fail to tailor the treatment plan to the individual concerned. And what can be more impersonal than an ‘off the peg’ treatment protocol that is a bit of a hit and miss affair where you see a different consultant every time you go there. What’s worse, is you feel that they haven’t really understood your co… Continue

Added by Jenny Lynn on May 13, 2009 at 5:53pm — No Comments

Incongruence causes Depression?

Added by Jenny Lynn on May 13, 2009 at 5:39pm — No Comments

Can Love be a form of Psychosis?

Can Love be a form of Psychosis? Delusion Of Love May Create Erotomania; “Erotomania is a rare disorder whereby the subject holds a delusional belief that another person is in love with him or her. The illness is often associated with delusional disorders such as schizophrenia. The term Erotomania is sometimes confused with “obsessive love” or hyper sexuality”. Source: Wikipedia Read More Continue

Added by Dawn Pugh on April 25, 2009 at 11:19am — No Comments

Uncover How The Recession of Economic Depression Can Help to Spice Up Your Sex Life;

Uncover How The Recession of Economic Depression Can Help to Spice Up Your Sex Life; Read more Continue

Added by Dawn Pugh on April 23, 2009 at 11:19am — No Comments

Counseling and Psychotherapy Sessions for Trauma

Counseling and Psychotherapy Sessions for Trauma: Many debate certain counseling techniques involved in trauma therapy that use de-briefing strategies, they argue that they can have a negative impact on trauma recovery. Trauma Therapy from the Client’s Perspective Ms. Burton’s own experience of therapy convinces her, for example, that trauma survivors don’t always make the best trauma therapists. This is especially true if they never completed their own therapy. She has seen them react with fe… Continue

Added by Dawn Pugh on April 20, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Uncover What Professional Licensed Counselors Should Know

Uncover What Professional Licensed Counselors Should Know: Unlicensed Therapists Targeted: Apparently on Thursday 09.04.09 The Oregon House authorized legislation aimed at protecting Oregonians from unlicensed therapists and counselors. The legislation currently named ‘The House Bill 2506’ works in multiple ways. It prevents professional counselors and marriage and family therapists (MFT) from practicing without state licenses. It also bans mental health professionals from working if their… Continue

Added by Dawn Pugh on April 20, 2009 at 4:23pm — No Comments

Leaving Behind the Magical Illusions of Childhood

As children, we believe that we have the magical powers to change all that is wrong with our world. We need to believe that we can control our destiny in order to emotionally survive. For example, we may have been raised by parents who were emotionally unavailable. They lacked the capacity to be nurturing, supportive and affirming. As a way of coping, we "performed to please," trying every means in our arsenal to make our parents feel happy while striving to get our own needs met. When our effor… Continue

Added by James P. Krehbiel, Ed.S., LPC, CCBT on February 26, 2009 at 10:24pm — 2 Comments

Fibromyalgia: It's in your head, but it's not your fault!

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is the medical terminology used to represent a complex clinical disorder of symptoms characterized by soft tissue pain, stiffness, and altered deep pain threshold with psychological fallout. It can mimic or accompany symptoms of joint injury, but it is not an arthritic or neurological condition. The disorder affects between 3 to 6 million people – or as many as one in 50 Americans. About 80 and 90 percent of those diagnosed with fibromyalgia are women. I am one of the… Continue

Added by James P. Krehbiel, Ed.S., LPC, CCBT on February 21, 2009 at 3:33pm — No Comments