Like Coaching, consulting is a process of discovery! Whether a small business faced with current staff/management issues or wanting to grow capacity; or maybe you are an entrepreneur hoping to design your life’s legacy, building from the ground up and wanting to do it the right way for you! [...]
Is Life Enhancement Coaching right for you? Should you consider counseling instead? There is a fundamental difference between the counseling process and the coaching process. Counseling often involves reworking the past – past learned behaviors, past patterns in relationships, and past [...]
Is Life Enhancement Coaching right for you? Should you consider counseling instead? There is a fundamental difference between the counseling process and the coaching process. Counseling often involves reworking the past – past learned behaviors, past patterns in relationships, and past [...]
Please Select a Topic You Are Interested In: Getting to Know Your Counselor Life After Trauma When Your Child Is In Pain Struggling with Emotional and Psychological Problems Couples and Family Issues Telemedicine Are We a Good Fit? “Margaret, are you a good fit for me?” I have [...]
Eating disorders and body dysmorphia vary in factors, type, and severity, yet all include a lack of control over eating habits. Dangerous behaviors can arise out of a preoccupation with your weight, shape, appearance, or flaws, whether real or imagined. If the flaws are actual, the importance of the[...]
Deliberately harming yourself or having an impulse to is a sign of emotional distress. It is not uncommon, especially in adolescents, to self-harm. On the surface, it may appear to occur only when you have difficulty managing emotions and don’t have proper coping skills. This is too commonly used [...]
Grief is one of those universal life experiences from which a person never really recovers but learns to cope with and grow through. When we lose people we love, the world is permanently changed. This is the price we pay as humans for the richness that our loved ones bring to our lives. Although[...]
I practice play therapy for children, adolescents, and even adults, as an opportunity for them to heal themselves. By offering a safe space to express their free choice, they are empowered to make decisions, direct the play, and take responsibility for their choices. The available toys give them [...]
Gender identity is a spectrum that describes to which degree a person perceives and recognizes their inner knowledge and outer expression of gender. Generally, this is the consistency between anatomical sex and the person’s internal maleness or femaleness or combination or neutrality. There are [...]
It’s my responsibility as a mental health professional to remember the history of the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic manual. Sexual orientation and identities were considered diagnoses that came with stigma and suffering. Homosexuality was considered a diagnosis until 1973, and [...]