Parental loss is a major issue especially in the lives of the very young, but the loss of parents, our key providers of security, affection and love has profound effects at any age.
Parenting may be the most demanding and important form of relationship. Our tendency to replay our own childhood parental relationships deeply affects our capacity as parents.
personality disorder refers to unhealthy patterns of thinking, relating to others and behaving. You may have trouble perceiving situations and interactions in a realistic &/or healthy way, causing struggles that are pervasive across your life in relationships, work or school.
This likely began in your teenage years. If you have actually received a diagnosis you may have a difficult trauma history. You can live well and function optimally despite this diagnosis &/or personal history.
Pre-marital therapy helps couples to assess and improve areas of their relationship that are important for a long and loving marriage. Such therapy is often begun to ensure that a marriage starts and continues smoothly.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is not prescriptive and values the unique subjectivity of each individual's psychic life.
This is the oldest and best-established mode of working in psychotherapy. Its focus is on enabling the client to make independent decisions so these therapists do not offer advice or solutions.
Instead, they help clients make their own best choices at their own rate.
A cancer diagnosis can precipitate many emotions and changes, not just in the patient himself/herself, but also often in relationships with family and friends of the patient.
Psychosomatic refers originally to the natural connection of the integrated human. As humans we have a physical nature in our bodies or somas, and a living presence as personalities through our psyches.
The psychospiritual approach integrates both psychological growth and spiritual attunement, viewing the complications of life not as problems to be solved but as a gateway to greater understanding. Crisis becomes the opportunity for growth and development as well as spiritual emergence.
Term for a wide range of therapeutic activities within a dyadic process of private and confidential dialogue on issues relevant to a person seeking help - the client - and intended to help a client resolve life issues with the assistance of a person trained in this specific form of professional work, the therapist.