Everyone, at some time, experiences stress due to events that occur in our lives. Sometimes stress can motivate the actions necessary for us to change or to improve the situation. However, stress and the anxiety that often follows, can overwhelm one's ability to cope and have the lack of proper stress management negatively impact our lives. Marital and couples counseling requires a different process of engagement from both the therapist and participants.
Changing levels of affection and connection demands an approach that is direct but deliberative in how couples manifest their hopes for restoring a relationship. John Dittmar received his master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh in Counselor Education in 1982 and is a Licensed Professional Counselor.
For over thirty years, his career has encompassed treatment of adolescents and teenagers, families under stress, addictions and substance use issues, sexuality, relationship concerns, crisis intervention and adults with anxiety and depression.
Changing levels of affection and connection demands an approach that is direct but deliberative in how couples manifest their hopes for restoring a relationship. John Dittmar received his master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh in Counselor Education in 1982 and is a Licensed Professional Counselor.
For over thirty years, his career has encompassed treatment of adolescents and teenagers, families under stress, addictions and substance use issues, sexuality, relationship concerns, crisis intervention and adults with anxiety and depression.
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Anxiety Disorders categorize a large number of disorders where the primary feature is abnormal or inappropriate anxiety.
Everybody has experienced anxiety.
Think about the last time a loud noise frightened you and remember the feelings inside your body.
Chances are you experienced an increased heart rate, tensed muscles, and perhaps an acute sense of focus as you tried to determine the source of the noise.
These are all symptoms of anxiety.
They are also part of a normal process in our bodies called the 'fight or flight' phenomenon.
Everybody has experienced anxiety.
Think about the last time a loud noise frightened you and remember the feelings inside your body.
Chances are you experienced an increased heart rate, tensed muscles, and perhaps an acute sense of focus as you tried to determine the source of the noise.
These are all symptoms of anxiety.
They are also part of a normal process in our bodies called the 'fight or flight' phenomenon.
Depression is an illness that is a collection of symptoms ranging from sadness, lethargy and hopelessness.
Depression is more than just the 'blues' but an illness that effects the whole body, emotionally one feels isolated, psychologically you feel fragile and physically weakened.
You just can't 'snap out of it' as friends tell you or try to ignore it as you have tried.
Research has shown that depression is an illness influenced by both biological and environmental factors.
Personal genetics and family histories of this illness play a role in the development of depressive episodes.
Depression is more than just the 'blues' but an illness that effects the whole body, emotionally one feels isolated, psychologically you feel fragile and physically weakened.
You just can't 'snap out of it' as friends tell you or try to ignore it as you have tried.
Research has shown that depression is an illness influenced by both biological and environmental factors.
Personal genetics and family histories of this illness play a role in the development of depressive episodes.
Grief is your emotional reaction to a significant loss.
The words sorrow and heartache are often used to describe feelings of grief.
Grieving is the process of emotional and life adjustment one goes through after a loss.
Loss could include the death of a loved one, end of a marriage or meaningful relationship, losing employment or changes in health following a serious or life-threatening diagnosis.
One could imagine grieving as a process of healing.
A broken bone mends through a physical process that the body accomplishes on its own but with the expectation of recovery and usefulness of the limb in the future.
The words sorrow and heartache are often used to describe feelings of grief.
Grieving is the process of emotional and life adjustment one goes through after a loss.
Loss could include the death of a loved one, end of a marriage or meaningful relationship, losing employment or changes in health following a serious or life-threatening diagnosis.
One could imagine grieving as a process of healing.
A broken bone mends through a physical process that the body accomplishes on its own but with the expectation of recovery and usefulness of the limb in the future.
Marital and couples counseling requires a different process of engagement from both the therapist and participants.
Changing levels of affection and connection demands an approach that is direct but deliberative in how couples manifest their hopes for restoring a relationship.
Relationships always take work to be vibrant and sustaining.
Often over the course of a marriage couples forget the ways they used to connect.
More than just having conversations, time spent together, affectionate contact and bonding over the daily events of life and family are the means of 'communication'.
Changing levels of affection and connection demands an approach that is direct but deliberative in how couples manifest their hopes for restoring a relationship.
Relationships always take work to be vibrant and sustaining.
Often over the course of a marriage couples forget the ways they used to connect.
More than just having conversations, time spent together, affectionate contact and bonding over the daily events of life and family are the means of 'communication'.
Always a difficult task, parenting doesn't come with a clear guide for meeting the needs of both the child and parent.
But parents have the right, really an obligation to provide a safe and caring environment for their children.
Loving a child properly requires a consistent approach to educating, encouraging and leading a child to accurately develop a view of themselves and how to positively interact with the world around them.
Recent research has focused upon two elements that greatly factor into the development of a child's view of themselves and how they should relate with those around them.
But parents have the right, really an obligation to provide a safe and caring environment for their children.
Loving a child properly requires a consistent approach to educating, encouraging and leading a child to accurately develop a view of themselves and how to positively interact with the world around them.
Recent research has focused upon two elements that greatly factor into the development of a child's view of themselves and how they should relate with those around them.
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