Self-Soothing: Using Your Sense of Touch
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Saturday, July 11th, 2015 in Anxiety Counseling. No Comments
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Saturday, July 11th, 2015 in Anxiety Counseling. No Comments
Many people have childhood memories of a soft blanket that they carried for comfort or being hugged by a mother wearing a soft and furry nightgown. The use of touch for self-soothing is often forgotten and yet we are always touching something. Our skin is covered with sensitive nerves that caring signals of feelings to […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Friday, July 3rd, 2015 in Anxiety Counseling. No Comments
We can learn to self-sooth through the use of certain sounds. Listen to beautiful or soothing music, or to CD of the ocean or other sounds of nature can be very relaxing. For some people, having a baseball game on the radio while they work can be very self-soothing. For others, sitting by a waterfall can provide […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Saturday, June 27th, 2015 in Anxiety Counseling. No Comments
What better gift did God provide than our vision? A large percentage of our brain has been set aside solely for our sense of vision. What we see can have a very powerful affect upon how we feel about ourselves, others, and our world (both positively and negatively). So, it is an important tool for […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Saturday, June 20th, 2015 in Anxiety Counseling. No Comments
The symptoms of anxiety disorder are generally characterized by consistent, extreme, and unfounded fear, worry, or dismay. For example, a person with anxiety disorder may feel anxious about life with no specific reason. He or she may simply have an underlying fear but not be able to share what that fear is attributed. The person […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Thursday, June 18th, 2015 in Depression. No Comments
Depression is a mood disorder that causes a consistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. It affects how a person feels, thinks and behaves and can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems. At any point in time, 3 to 5 percent of people suffer from major depression; the lifetime risk is […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Friday, June 12th, 2015 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
Sexual Addiction Triggers When working with men that struggle with sexual addiction, I often will discuss their triggers that precede the last acting out behaviors. The triggers usually fall into the acronym B-L-A-S-T-E-D. The more the sex addict can understand his real need rather than the need for sex, the more he can replace unhealthy […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Sunday, May 31st, 2015 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
Love Addiction consists of three components: Romance, Relationship and Sexual Addiction. Signs and Characteristics of Love Addiction: Lack of nurturing and attention when young Feeling isolated, detached from parents and family Compartmentalization of relationships from other areas of life Outer facade of “having it all together” to hide internal disintegration Mistake intensity for intimacy (drama […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Sunday, May 24th, 2015 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
We have recently added a sexual addiction questionnaire to our website to assist visitors in their assessment of whether they may have sexual addiction. This screening measure is not designed to make a diagnosis of a sexual addiction or take the place of a professional diagnosis or consultation. We have gathered 25 different questions that […]
By Michael Ballard, MA, LPC on Friday, May 22nd, 2015 in Anger Management. No Comments
Anger Management Cues When we are starting to get angry, our body sends us physical cues to tell us that there is a problem. These are instant, physiological sensations that we have no control over. Different people experience anger differently in their body, but we all receive cues of some sort when we are getting […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Saturday, May 16th, 2015 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
Core Belief #4: Sex Is My Greatest Need The 4th and final core belief of a sex addict is “Sex is one of my greatest needs. I’ll do anything to get it.” Most men that I work with in my sex addiction counseling practice will often deny that this is true in their thinking until […]