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Below are counseling related information and resources from our contributors.How To Manage The Daunting Process Of Moving To A New Home
Even if your plans to move are months away, you still may be having feelings of dread and despair at the thought of the whole daunting process.
The Importance of Cutting Edge Continuing Education for Licensed Professional Counselors, MFTs, and Social Workers
Continuing education is required from almost every licensed professional in the human services field. These licenses require renewal every year or two, some maybe longer, depending on the licensing state’s rules. The tendency is to find the simplest courses that allow for the quickest and easiest renewal process. Most then tend to miss out on the benefits many courses may provide to their practice and professional development.
Considering Your Child’s Anxiety When Moving
Moving day can cause feelings of high anxiety. When one is worried about packing their valued wedding crystal along with labeling and getting boxes ready for the movers, they may also have other worries to consider if they have small children and pets too.
Marriage Counselling Can Save Your Relationship
The relationship of married couples go up and down all the time. Sometimes it is exciting and sexy, and other times it is boring. Many times couples will question if this is how their relationship should be. There is nothing wrong with that. Questioning is good for a relationship and it can often improve it on many levels. But when you start questioning his or her love for you, or even worse, how you feel about your spouse, maybe it is time to seek marriage counselling.
Can Therapy Help You Change?
Is it possible to truly change? Does therapy help? Many people have turned their lives and fortunes around, while others spend years trying to change with or without therapy, but never seem to progress. What makes the difference? Certainly, there are skilled and unskilled psychotherapists. Therapy can make a huge difference and help you traverse the obstacles to change, but success lies in the individual.
Alcohol & Drug Recovery in the 12 Steps – How It Works
Many therapists do not understand the 12-Step recovery process, unless they have participated in a 12-Step program. Although they may encourage their clients to do so, they may feel perplexed or intimated, or act patronizing. Often, therapists don’t realize that the 12-Steps are not merely an antidote for addiction, but are guidelines for nothing less than a total personality transformation. Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, was influenced by Carl Jung, whom he wrote seeking a treatment for alcoholism. Jung replied that the cure would have to be a spiritual one — a power equal to the power of spiritus vivi, or alcohol. He thought that addicts were “misguided ‘seekers for the spirit,’ …in the world of Dionysus, the god of renewal through the light from below, from the earth rather than from the heavens…” (Whitmont, 227)
Codependency Marriage – Divorce, Counseling, Problems
Codependency is a condition which not only affects oneself but likewise the person absorbed similarly gets into trouble indirectly, which is apparent in conditions of codependency marriage; Marriages may be efficacious besides long lasting simply when there is understanding between the couple. The dysfunction of one of the partner may produce the other become a [...]
MFT Continuing Education: Detailing the CE Requirements for California
Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) continuing education have had some variations over the past several years in California. Before a California MFT can apply for their license renewal they must obtain the required CE credits, as set forth by the State of California BBS. There may be a courtesy reminder sent out a few months prior to license expiration by the BBS. The certificates of completion must be maintained by the licensed MFT for a period of two years. If the licensed therapist is audited they must produce these certificates as proof of obtaining the necessary MFT CEUS. There are some different requirements for MFTs in CA during the first renewal period as compared to all other subsequent renewals. It is necessary for the licensee to know these differences and obtain the appropriate credits for each renewal period.
CEUs for Social Workers, MFTs and Counselors: Finding a Provider in Online Continuing Education
There are so many things people can find using the internet. One of those things is an online CEU provider. There is a dilemma though, there is a lot of information to sift through with each query, regardless of the search engine that is used. Something to keep in mind is that a high ranking website doesn’t always equate to the best choice for what you are looking. There is fierce competition for the top spots in the search engine rankings. With this in mind, here are some questions to ask when presented with the list of choices after each search.
The Importance Of Communication Between Husband And Wife
Marital troubles occur in all ages and backgrounds of people. The best solution to problems in a marriage is to deal with them head on immediately before they get out of hand.
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