Emotional cutoff is not necessarily a conscious decision. It’s more like a switch that flips in your head.
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Gottman Method Couples Therapy
Couples need a solid foundation of love and friendship, and walls made of trust and commitment. On this foundation and between these walls, the whole relationship is built. Establishing or restoring these is where counseling begins.
Solution-focused therapy: The power of language
Talking about times when there was no problem serves to remind you that, hey, it wasn’t always like this, and it doesn’t have to continue to be like this. And perhaps most importantly, it helps you begin to envision a future without the problem.
You’re not talking to yourself, your Internal Family is
Internal Family Systems therapy seeks to resolve the conflict between our parts by treating them like any other quarreling family members. The idea is that returning your internal family to its natural state of balance and harmony allows our true Self to emerge.
How can CBT help?
When our thoughts are positive, our feelings and actions tend to be. When our feelings are positive, we do and think good things. When we take positive action, our thoughts and feelings follow along. Whichever leads, the others follow.
What is an LMFT?
Even if we are sitting across from one person, we are still considering how change in that one person will result iinchage in that person’s spouse, friends, children, etc. We tend to think we are not sitting across from only one person, even when there is only one person sitting across from us.
How to choose a counselor
So many different credentials, all those initials. How do I make sense of them all? How do I know which type of counselor or therapist is best for me?
Michael D. McVey 