Navigating Each Hard Turn of Divorce
by Steve Wright, LPC Divorce is one of the most painful of human experiences. It has been compared with the grief and pain of the death of a spouse. Indeed, the death of the relationship to the person one [...]
Who Is This Adult in Place of My Child?: Coping With Teens in Transition
by Priscilla Dean, LPC Parents and teenagers inevitably experience all kinds of conflict. This stage of development in the teen's life is fraught with some major shifts during the ages of 13-18. The same could be said of the [...]
The Self-Esteem Builder Checklist
by Amy Churchill, LPC I recently spoke to group of parents about how to help promote self-esteem in the home. Although social pressures and competition are not new concepts, these self-esteem deflators are definitely magnified in today’s generation of [...]
Understanding Your Role in Shaping Your Child’s Behavior, part 2
by Amy Churchill, LPC In Part 1 of this article, I defined 4 important ways that parent can help shape their children’s behaviors: Validation, Reinforcement, Modeling, and Punishment. Now we will explore how these techniques can be used in [...]
Understanding Your Role in Shaping your Child’s Behavior, Part 1.
by: Amy Churchill, LPC There are several defined ways that parents can help shape their children’s behavioral responses, as well as help their children feel understood. I'd like to take a look at those with you in this article, [...]
Identifying the Three Fundamental Fears: Death, Abandonment and Failure.
by Jen DuBos, MA LPC People can be afraid of literally anything: Snakes. Sleep. Germs. Airplanes. Malls. Relationships. Pogo sticks. Even a toothbrush going through the back of your head. But as varied as one’s external, concrete fear [...]