Archive for 2016
Marriage Therapy – Gottman method
Gottman Marriage Therapy The Gottman’s have thoroughly researched what works best in marriage therapy. The Gottman method follows seven basic principles to help couples build healthy relationships. If you are interested in couples counseling and believe this method would be helpful, please contact me. The Gottman Method for Healthy Relationships: Build Love Maps:How well do you…
Read MoreChildren and Sand Tray Therapy
One of the techniques that the Family Christian Counseling Center uses in children’s counseling is the sand tray. The therapists at the Center use this method as an addition to traditional therapies. Sand tray therapy is defined as “The therapeutic use of a collection of miniatures in a sandtray. It is a non-verbal expressive and…
Read MoreChildren’s Counseling Checklist
One of the instruments that the therapists at Family Christian Counseling Center use during child counseling to help assess children who are experiencing behavioral, emotional, and social problems is the Child Behavior Checklist. This is a checklist that has been developed over decades using evidence based research to aid in identifying behavioral, emotional, and social…
Read MoreChildhood Trauma Unique?
Childhood trauma, is it unique? I just finished reading an article from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University titled “Excessive Stress Disrupts the Architecture of the Developing Brain”. There are times I wish I could ignore what I have read, not because I disagree with it but because I wish it was…
Read MoreTrauma help for Children
One of our specialties at Family Christian Counseling Center is working with children who have experienced trauma. I just finished reading an article titled “Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Parents can Do” by the National Institute of Mental Health (a branch of the National Institute of Health). The article has…
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