PRLog - Oct. 1, 2014 - EVANSTON, Ill. -- Marriage and Couples Counseling Lakeview Chicago
No one has a perfect relationship, and almost every couple can benefit from some guidance, education, and support in strengthening and enhancing relationship. Many couples seek counseling with a trained therapist to improve the relationship even when they are not overtly or explicitly distressed. It’s a sign of health, love, honor and respect for your relationship to be open to Marriage and couples counseling. It shows that prevention, maintenance and enhancement of the relationship is an important priority.
Couples therapy is a practical and efficient means of restoring connection and trust to distressed, disconnected, and unsatisfying relationships by improving intimacy, communication, and problem-solving skills. Signs of a distressed marriage or relationship include: contempt, criticism, withdrawal, loss of connection, loss of friendship, and loss of sexual intimacy. I use an active, results-oriented, experiential, emotionally focused, and brief approach to get to the root of conflict so you can move forward as a happier, healthier, and more connected couple.
Common relationship struggles for couples include:
Gridlocked conflict
Constant bickering and fighting
Lack of Intimacy
Infidelity
Separation
Infertility
Lack of satisfaction and enjoyment with your partner
Having the same issues over and over
Inability of your partner to understand why you are hurting
Extended family conflicts
Excessive anger, jealousy, control
Inherent differences in lifestyle decisions (having children, religion, career)
My clinical approach is grounded in systemic, experiential, and humanistic theories. I offer direct feedback and an interactive exchange that is solution, goal, and emotionally focused.
Some therapeutic talk therapy techniques that I use in individual and couples counseling include:
Cognitive-behavioral
Solution Focused
Psycho-educational
Family Systems
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
As a holistic healer I highly value wellness and wholeness. Therefore mind, body, spirit, and emotions are all considered and incorporated in evaluation and treatment.
Benefits of Meditation
Meditation is regarded by a number of researchers as one of the most effective forms of stress reduction. Meditation prevents stress from getting into the system and releases already accumulated stress.
Regulates blood presure
Lowers the levels of blood lactate, reducing anxiety attacks
Decreases any tension-related pain, such as, tension headaches, ulcers, insomnia, muscle and joint problems
Increases serotonin production that improves mood and behavior
Improves the immune system
Increases your inner source of energy
Mental Benefits of Meditation
Meditation brings the brainwave pattern into an Alpha state that promotes healing.
Anxiety decreases
Emotional stability improves
Creativity increases
Happiness increases
Clarity and peace of mind increases
Problems become smaller
Meditation sharpens the mind by gaining focus and expands through relaxation
A sharp mind without expansion causes tension, anger and frustration
An expanded consciousness without sharpness can lead to lack of action/progress
The balance of a sharp mind and an expanded consciousness brings perfection
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Marriage and Couples Counseling Lakeview Chicago
October 01, 2014 at 01:00 AM EDT
