Couples Counseling
When a couple begins a relationship they are embarking on an experience for which most people are unprepared. Relationships skills have not been something traditionally taught in school: most people don’t feel that their parents were great role models either. Most individuals enter relationships with good intentions but little knowledge about what works, and sometimes with some unrealistic expectations. Thus, when clients first enter treatment I frequently encounter frustrated people who have been working very hard to improve their relationships. However, because they lack the right tools or possess unrealistic expectations, they haven’t made any progress. Nevertheless, I’ve consistently found that by mastering a few essential skills and developing realistic expectations, couples can work smarter, not harder and get excellent results. The couple is seen together. The focus of treatment is on the relationship. Goals can include learning skills to enhance the relationship, reduce conflict, and improve communication.
The focus of treatment is on the relationship. Goals can include learning skills to enhance the relationship, reduce conflict, and improve communication.

Relationship Issues
Learn skills to enhance all types of relationships – including work relationships, friendships, family, couple, and others.

Parenting Issues
Learn how to communicate effectively, set limits, foster responsibility, and build cooperation and self-esteem while enhancing your relationship with your children.

Family therapy
Members of a family are seen together to assess how encounters between family members may be creating contributing to a maladaptive behavior. The family is treated or taught how to change in ways that reduce the maladaptive behavior and promote healthy growth for members.

Handling Stress & Improving Concentration
Psychological research has shown that people react very differently to stressful events such as the loss of a job or relationship. One can see examples of this every day as people respond very differently to the challenges in their lives. From this perspective, the term stress is better used to refer to how one reacts to events, rather than to the actual events themselves.

Stressful situations involve an interaction between a challenging situation and an individual’s style of coping. Tension is created by how one reacts to situations, not the situations themselves. Events may be experienced as stressful because they make demands we are not prepared to handle. Relaxing under pressure is a learnable skill. Your talent and hard work won’t
show if you become too stressed. Excessive stress can cause: