Marilyn Andrew Recommends: The Me I Want to Be – John Ortberg 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens – Sean Covey Inside out and Outside In – Berzoff, Melano-Flanaghan & Herty The 5 Love Languages – Gary Chapman Crucial Conversations – Patterson, Grenny, McMillan & Switzler Boundaries – Henry Cloud Co-Dependent No More – Melody […]
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Lisa Banner Recommends: Teens Who Hurt – Hardy & Laszloffy Cutting – Steven Levenkron Recollections – Viktore E. Frankl 7 Days to Confidence – Rox Taylor Mindfulness and Psychotherapy – Germer, Siegel & Fulton The Bodacious Book of Succulence – Sark Coloring Your Prayers – Carolyn Manzi Theraplay – Jernberg & Booth On Grief and Grieving – […]
Continue ReadingCan You Sign Up Or Go To Sessions On Your Own Without Being 18 Years Old?
Good question. In a nutshell, if you are under the age of 12 you must have parental consent to receive counseling services. If you are between the ages of 12-17 years old you can receive up to 8, 90 minute counseling sessions before parental consent is legally required. The minor’s parents shall not be informed […]
Continue ReadingFive Ways to Show Your Spouse You Love Them
Love. That’s a tricky one. What is love? How do we know it really exists? Will we ever find it? If we do, can we keep it? These are all questions that we have asked ourselves periodically throughout our lives, and may still be asking today. We’ve all heard a friend or family member proclaim […]
Continue ReadingFive Ways to Screw up Your Relationship
There are literally thousands of ways we can disconnect with our partner throughout the course of our relationship. We can say mean things in the “heat of battle”, ignore one another at a social event or even forget an anniversary. But alone, these isolated and random events don’t necessarily mean that the relationship is destined […]
Continue ReadingFive Ways to Deal with an Affair
An estimated 30 to 60 percent of couples will experience their partner cheating on them at some time during the course of their relationship. Considering that roughly 50 percent of all marriages, 60 percent of second marriages and 73 percent of third marriages or more end in divorce, it’s likely that this number would be […]
Continue ReadingFive Ways to Communicate More Effectively With Your Partner
Over the past several decades, roughly 50 percent of all marriages and 60 percent of all re-marriages have ended in divorce. Many studies point toward money as the leading cause, while others blame the birth of a couple’s first child, extra-marital affairs or blended families for the shocking decline in marital success. While these are […]
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Shannon Aldridge Recommends: Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman’s Guide to Finding Contentment – Linda Dillow Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself – Melody Beattie The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman’s Guide to Emotional Strength and Self Esteem – Sue Patton Thoele Bring Up Boys – James […]
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James Smithers Recommends: The Marriage Clinic – John Gottman Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work – John Gottman Mating in Captivity – Ester Perel Hold Me Tight – Dr. Sue Johnson Do One Thing Different – Bill O’Hanlon Divorce Busting –Michele Weiner-Davis Monkeyluv – Robert Sapolsky The Five Love Languages – Gary Chapman The Courage […]
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