I work with children, individuals, and families navigating big emotions, relational challenges, and life transitions. I have a special interest in ADHD and helping families better understand and support their children’s needs.
My approach is person-centered, collaborative, and systemic. I focus on helping clients build on their strengths to find strategies that fit their unique needs. I often utilize play in my sessions with children to help them express themselves, learn, skill-build, and tell their story in the language they know best – play!
Please reach out if you have any questions about the process, or if you are ready … Read more
By Seth Hock, LMFT
We have all been there, on both sides of the conversation – the ongoing negotiation between parents and children, when parents are asking children to do something they may not want to do. As parents, we can be exasperated from the arguments, power struggles, and the constant reminders to do something. The voice, oh so familiar, broadcasts the same tired message. It reverberates through our headspace like an ancient echo: “How many times do I have to ask or tell them to listen?”
Children, at times in innocent ignorance and at other times in stubborn defiance, … Read more
LaSheena is a Psychologist who welcomes the opportunity to assist individuals, couples, and families in overcoming whatever hurdles life sends their way. She has experience with providing therapy for people from all walks of life, ages 4 and up. She has extensive experience with treating depression and behavioral concerns in children and adolescents, as well as concerns such as anxiety, depression, relationship problems, trauma, bipolar disorder, and more severe concerns in adults. She believes in challenging clients to build on natural coping mechanisms and tools for navigating challenges by learning and practicing new skills and engaging in self-exploration. She uses … Read more
This group is designed to help teens with Eating Disorders:
- Combat self-criticism and build self-esteem
- Generate authentic connections
- Develop skills to gain shame resilience in recovery
Please RSVP – space is limited.
Contact Jenny:
770-715-4772
email
Pricing: $40/session or $35/session with a 12-week commitment
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Listen below to episode 10 of A Single Tree Podcast about the development and evolution of the self. Find all episodes and subscribe on Soundcloud or iTunes. Also, find the podcast on facebook here.
Description: We form ideas of ourselves through interaction with our environment. The relationships we have with people around us and the feedback we get from our environment reflect back to us important information. We form impressions of ourselves which are discarded as we grow and develop. It’s important to know ourselves and be exactly who we are, and be willing to surrender these … Read more
By Joel Ybarra, LCMFT
Some would say the largest part of being able to help others is empathizing with them, but it’s important we’re able to do this in a helpful and constructive way. Empathy is often defined as being able to see through another’s eyes. It’s amazing – we’re able to “read” and recreate the internal experience of another within ourselves by observing their facial expressions and imagining what we might feel in their place. You can see how it may be easy to get too emotionally involved.
There are some different ways we get “too involved.” Sometimes we … Read more
We all encounter it – the craziness of the holidays. They’re upon us, and we wanted to share a few tips for looking after yourself and your loved ones these holidays. The world around you will speed up and there’ll be pressures and stresses that come around each year about this time. Maybe do a few of these things this year to stay healthy, and make your holidays better!
- Acknowledge how you are feeling – if you recently experienced a loss, trauma, or other difficulty, let those who care about you know how you are feeling. We all need support.
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By Joel Ybarra, LCMFT
It is common for couples to wonder whether they should try to “change” one another. At times, partners are merely making simple requests of one another, such as asking for a hand with the groceries, but other times, it may seem like they’re asking their partner to change part of their personality. Couple relationships are a delicate balance between accepting our partners for who they are and seeking to get our own “needs” met. The best relationships are the ones in which there is unconditional acceptance, so where do our needs and desires (or even simple … Read more
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills Training Group is now open for new members to join both our Adult and Adolescent groups!
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a broad-based cognitive behavioral treatment aimed to enhance your ability to regulate emotions, improve interpersonal relationships and crisis management skills. Emotion dysregulation has been linked to a variety of mental health concerns stemming from patterns of instability in emotional management, lack of impulse control, ineffective interpersonal relationships, and a distorted self-image. Helping clients find true balance in emotion, thoughts, and behavior and/or choices is the fundamental practice of DBT.
DBT Skills Training Group is … Read more
“I believe therapy provides a powerful interpersonal space for people who are seeking to face challenges and improve their individual and relationship health. I offer therapy to those motivated to face their challenges in a compassionate and collaborative therapeutic environment focusing on their strengths, their capacity for healthy choices, and personal growth and responsibility. I work with you towards your goals, implementing positive changes, and understanding the issues that might be inhibiting you from creating the sense of wellbeing and confidence you desire.
My therapy is holistic in nature looking at the whole person and the various aspects that contribute … Read more
At Real Life Counseling, we are starting a campaign to challenge ourselves and others to build businesses that are healthy and creative, not just profitable. In a LinkedIn article “What If The Purpose of Business Is Creativity, Not Wealth Extraction,”[1] John Battelle questions the common understanding that businesses exist solely to deliver profits to shareholders. As we manage and work in business, we reach points where we must balance profit objectives with values that focus on the health of our organizations, the people within them and the community around us. Maximizing profits is not always opposed to creativity, but … Read more
By Joel Ybarra, LCMFT
Most couples, at some point in their relationship, have difficulty developing, deepening or sustaining intimacy. Contrary to the beliefs of the couples themselves, the intimacy is probably already there in their relationship and can be experienced just by stepping back and providing the space for it to develop (and avoiding the typical raging upset that occurs when it is gone). The problem is there are usually interactions that come between partners that prevent the intimacy from coming forth.
Most couples come into therapy reporting some version of this story: “When we first got together, we were … Read more
When you need a safe place to take a look at yourself and where your life is going.
When you’re ready to ask the “big questions.”
When you need some outside perspective from someone not overly involved.
When your stress/emotional stuff is affecting your physical health or you can feel it in your body.
When stress is affecting your work and relationships.
When you are stuck in the same old tired pattern.
When you are ready to enter a new phase in your life and you need a little help getting there.
When you are ready to have help that … Read more
As we come to the end of this year and get ready to start the next, it is normal for us to be thinking of things we need to try to do differently. Many of us have made resolutions or set goals for ourselves in the past year and, as the year ends, we look back to see if we have made any progress. We also look forward to determine what things we would like to change next year. As we try to help ourselves and others have better lives, one of the most important things we can do is … Read more
Brandon just returned not too long ago from being trained to do hypnosis and one of the main tenets of the training is that you cannot lead others where you have not been yourself. That is applicable to our work helping others in general. For that reason, we work hard as individuals and as an organization to be stretching ourselves consistently: growing as people and in our relationships with one another. If we as an organization cannot have healthy relationships with each other, how can we help others in their relationships? And, if we as people are not learning, growing … Read more
