In counseling circles, the term ‘triangling’ is becoming more common. It describes a phenomenon with which we are all familiar: You have a conflict with one person, but rather than address it openly with that person, you seek a third person…
Monthly Archives: December 2015
Things to Remember about Communication
It’s not that self-help books (or videos or other resources) don’t have good information for people struggling in their relationships. Okay, some of them aren’t worth their weight in paper, but some indeed are very insightful and grounded in research. But even the most insightful and dead-on accurate self-help resources are limited by the fact that none of them apply directly to any specific person.
Healing from Your Past
Who doesn’t have skeletons in their closet? That’s right, we all have skeletons in our closet. Another related question is, who doesn’t convince themselves that they are the only ones with skeletons in their closet?
Grief Counseling Minneapolis MN
Grief is inevitable after we experience a loss—the more significant the loss, the deeper and more difficult the grief. Of course, we all experience grief individually, and therefore our experience of grief will be unique to our personalities.
The Critical Role of the Parent-Child Relationship
A good therapist will tell you that healthy, well-adjusted children have been set up for psychological well-being by parents who value their own self-awareness and are willing to do the hard work to be healthy and well-adjusted themselves.
Minnesota Counseling Services
Our world is more complex than ever. Computers, the Internet, and our connectedness to one another by way of those technological advances dictate how we interact in many aspects of our lives. And while technology is largely a positive component of our lives, it can also be said that we are novices in our use of it.
Anger Management Help Coon Rapids, MN
Anger is part of the human panoply of emotion. But, in the twenty-first century, so is excess and extremity of reaction. We live to extremes and with extremes, and that dynamic may be responsible for the consequences many of us suffer when anger becomes outsized and problematic.
The Holidays and Depression
Increasingly, the holidays are associated more with stress and depression than with jingling bells and caroling. When the stress of a difficult year or decade or lifetime coincide with the expectation…
Psychological Evaluations Anoka County MN
Among the most perplexing aspects of our culture is the persistent stigma associated with mental health. When looked at head-on, the way many of us still look at mental health simply does not stand up to scrutiny.