Emotion Regulation For Mood Disorders
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Friday, June 17th, 2016 in Depression. No Comments
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Friday, June 17th, 2016 in Depression. No Comments
Emotion Regulation: Observing Yourself Without Judging Yourself Self-Destructive behaviors can only offer you temporary relief. In the long term, they are all more damaging to yourself and others. For this reason, it’s important that you begin to notice what the rewards are for all your behaviors, but especially the self-destructive ones. This is the key […]
By Steve Marks, MA, NCC, LPC on Sunday, June 12th, 2016 in Marriage Counseling. No Comments
Improving Marriage Relationship Denver Newly married couples are often unprepared for the challenges of marriage (no matter whether they had premarital counseling or not). When the “honeymoon” phase is over, the real relationship begins and the challenging phase of sharing life begins. Many marriages begin to fall apart because our culture doesn’t teach couples how to […]
By Steve Marks, MA, NCC, LPC on Wednesday, May 11th, 2016 in Marriage Counseling. No Comments
Three Ways to Strengthen Marriage Dr. John Gottman has been studying couples for the last four decades to understand why some relationships are like ticking time bombs that result in divorce or chronic unhappiness, while others work well, are satisfying, and remain stable over a lifetime. Social scientists do not have a good track record […]
By Steve Marks, MA, NCC, LPC on Saturday, May 7th, 2016 in Marriage Counseling. No Comments
“Don’t you trust me?” “How can I trust him/her?” Trust is foundational for all relationships, but especially for our marriages. Trust is not so easy to cultivate and, once broken, can be excruciatingly difficult to repair. Some people come by it naturally. They find it easy to trust others, maybe because they saw good examples […]
By Steve Marks, MA, NCC, LPC on Monday, May 2nd, 2016 in Marriage Counseling. No Comments
Relationship Counselors Article in NY Times By TARA PARKER-POPE AUGUST 25, 2014, reports couples who are decisive in entering their marriage relationship have better and longer lasting marriages than those who just casually decide to get married after years of living together or deciding it is the next step. Do you have a decisive marriage? […]
By Steve Marks, MA, NCC, LPC on Saturday, April 23rd, 2016 in Marriage Counseling. No Comments
Here are 7 ways a wife injures her husband, without even knowing it. By Ron Edmonson 1. Put him down in front of other people – Most men will not counter this type of humiliation in public…if ever. They will simply take it…and hurt. If they do eventually address it it will be out of […]
By Michael Ballard, MA, LPC on Saturday, April 2nd, 2016 in Anger Management. No Comments
Anger Management Tool: A Look In The Mirror Now think about yourself. When you get angry, it is usually over something that is a real wrong? Is it about a true injustice in the world? Do you find yourself angry about oppression or starving children? Do you find yourself saying, “that’s not right!” about human […]
By Michael Ballard, MA, LPC on Friday, March 25th, 2016 in Anger Management. No Comments
Anger Management Denver Anger can ruin marriages, families, and yourself. Our marriage counselors often encounter anger issues in working with couples and direct the individual to work on the anger in individual counseling sessions. Once you have identified your thoughts you need to determine if is is a real wrong or a perceived wrong. Sometimes […]
By Michael Ballard, MA, LPC on Friday, March 18th, 2016 in Anger Management. No Comments
Anger Management Tools: Thoughts The first step in this process is to identify your thoughts, or what you are thinking about that is making you mad. What i your trigger though? Are you have wrong thoughts about your relationship? As we’ve said, the reason you are mad is not because of what happened, but because […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Sunday, February 14th, 2016 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
What is Sexual Addiction It is important to understand that sex addiction is a “solution” to pain, past trauma, and anxiety – addiction literally becomes a coping mechanism. If somebody starts doing something to cope, and if they do it long enough, the body adjusts to the point that it needs that level of activity […]