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Category Archives: Family Counseling

Becoming Emotionally Available for Your Loved Ones

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Family Counseling

Emotional availability determines the capacity of two individuals to share an emotional connection and enjoy a healthy and mutually fulfilling relationship (Biringen & Easterbrooks, 2012). But when your loved one is emotionally unavailable, they may find it challenging to communicate with you emotionally and end up feeling misunderstood or confused. How can you provide emotional …

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Identify your Personal Paradigms during the Holidays

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Family Counseling

Some of the year’s most loved holidays come with expectations, obligations, responsibilities, and challenges. As you gather to celebrate business, social, religious, or family events, remember we are all individuals with diverse constructs, often born from long-held paradigms. In short, how one sees the world is based on the life one lives. One’s response to …

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Smoothly Navigate Marriage in Your Golden Years

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Family Counseling

Marriage, at any age, is full of new experiences and life adjustments. In your golden years, however, these changes are a little more complicated. Use the following advice to smooth the way forward. Achieve your goals and reach your potential with counseling from Improving Lives Counseling Services. Involve Your Extended Families in Open Conversations This …

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Combating Family Disfunction with Counseling

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Family Counseling

The need for Family Counseling can range from the dynamics of a newly blended family to dysfunction, divorce, troubled relationships, financial problems, the conflict between parents, mental illness, and intervention. Defined as cohesion or how family members interact, Family Dynamics depicts the numerous factors that shape the family unit. Family Counseling or therapy is highly …

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Handling Intolerance of Uncertainty

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Children and Adolescent Counseling, Counseling, Family Counseling, Individual Counseling, Mental Health

Today more than ever, people display an intolerance of uncertainty to political, religious, societal, climatical, and secular views, beliefs, and behaviors. Many in the American Psychological Association believe mass shooters and people who commit suicide suffer from an inability to tolerate not knowing, or accepting the uncertainties tomorrow might bring. Even when viewpoints and philosophies …

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