Services

Pre-marital, Marital, Divorce and Co-Parenting

• Pre-marital counseling assists in successful transition to “couple-hood.”
• Marital counseling/coaching smoothes the sometimes “bumpy road” of life’s path.
• Infidelity - physical or “emotional.” Answer the question: “How can we possibly move on?”
• If divorce does occur, time-tested methods ease the stress and pain - keeping the needs of children first in focus.

Trauma Recovery and Post Traumatic Stress (PTSD)

• Trauma is defined as any event during which one thinks they are about to die, or; believes one is directly or indirectly responsible for the death of another. Also, the witnessing of a violent event.
• Events can be recent - or hidden in the past with troubling symptoms today.
• Traumatic events include: Close Combat Situations; Law-Enforcement and Fire-Protection Situations; Parental Physical or Emotional Abuse; Parental Neglect; Rape; Physical Assault; Domestic Physical Assault; Prolonged Intense Grief Due to a Person’s Unexpected Death; Being Threatened with Death; Miscarriage or Abortion; Accidents; Natural Disasters; Terrorist Events.
• Symptoms resulting from trauma include: Sudden Increased Heart Beat and Breathing; Sense of Fear; Panic Attacks; Flashbacks; Emotional Numbing; a Sense your Physical Body is Not Real; Hearing Inner Voices; a Sense that the World Around you is not Real.

Challenges of Military Family Life (and other government agencies)

• Stress due to changed/changing roles of parents.
• Coping with long absences.
• Impact of multiple deployments on service members and family members.
• Relocation stress - adjustment methods.

Anger, Depression, Anxiety

• These common and natural feelings, unchecked and uncontrolled, can grow to take over our lives - adversely affecting relationships and physical health.