Tag: therapist
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Family Counseling Guide: Preparing for The First Visit
All family relationships are tricky. Even when you find yourself in a healthy balanced relation, there are still some things or issues that can appear along the way. Unfortunately, most people avoid going to family counseling, and would rather prefer to deal with these problems on their own. No matter how skilled you are at…
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A Brief Explanation of Existential Therapy
Everyone is faced with their experience of existence. It is wonderful, emotionally painful, beautiful and sweet, traumatic and tedious, ecstatic and depressing, meaningful and meaningless at times. What are we to do with these opposites? Repress the dark and only think good thoughts? That works temporarily but doesn’t offer a way to face these extremes…
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Sand Tray Therapy, An Overview
Sand Tray Therapy : A Powerful Play Therapy Technique for Kids Sand tray therapy is one of the most powerful play therapy techniques for children. For the play therapist, it is comparable to an X-ray or MRI because it provides the unconscious symbols and their relationship. This gives the therapist the information needed to guide the therapy,…
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Silent Treatment Abuse or Shunning
“Silent Treatment Abuse” is the ancient practice of shunning using modern terminology to describe how it appears in our present relationships. It can be most confusing and frustrating because it feels like there is nothing that can be done about it. Many people have experienced abandonment, helplessness and loss when they have been shunned by…
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Psychiatrist, Counseling Psychologist, MFT or LCSW?
Here are some basic differences to be aware of when you are choosing a counselor or psychotherapist. They all fit under that category. They all provide psychological guidance. What is the difference between: Psychiatrist, Counseling Psychologist, MFT or LCSW? What is a psychiatrist? They are the only ones that can write a prescription for medication,…
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Marriage and Family Therapists; AAMFT,CAMFT,MADMFT
Professional organizations for marriage and family therapists set ethical and legal standards, advocate for the MFT at state and federal levels, and provide the basic guidelines for practicing marriage and family therapy within a safe and reasonably effective manner. Generally, the intention is to “do no harm”, of course. There has been a demand by…
