ME and WE in Couple Therapy When you expand your therapy practice to include couples work, there’s a commonly overlooked shift to be made, and it’s more complex than it sounds. Your focus and the way you practice changes with the expansion to couples work. It’s exciting, you talk to […]
What’s THE Problem
What’s THE Problem? While this might seem like a simple question, in couple therapy practice it’s anything but easy to answer. Couples go to therapy when something happens. Something they can’t resolve on their own, that causes enough distress they’re willing to talk to a therapist about it. You’ve met […]
What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You!
What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You! When you start working with couples you don’t know, what you don’t know. I don’t like this statement any more than you do, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true. I was not impressed when my supervisor said it to me, but I […]
Increase Client Retention
Increase Client Retention: Helpful Tips for Couple Therapists If you are a Therapist who works with couples you know how hard it is to get them to come to sessions regularly and to attend long enough to actually help them. Maybe you follow their lead, keeping them happy while you’re […]
Therapy for Women: the benefits
Therapy for Women: the benefits Therapy for Women: the benefits For many women the challenges of life can get overwhelming. Whether it’s family issues, work struggles or a combination of things, it’s common to feel this way at times. However, there is hope. Therapy for women has many benefits. With […]
New & Updates
News & Updates February 2023 – In this Issue Happy Valentines Day Valentines Day is a day of celebration for some and not so much for others. Whatever this day holds for you I encourage you to practice being kind and gentle with yourself. What does that look like? Maybe […]
Can I Trust My Gut?
Can I Trust My Gut? It’s hard to believe we are at the last of the four part series already. We’ll wrap up today with a brief review of what we’ve covered and a discussion about “trusting” your gut. Let’s move on and explore the question “Can I trust my […]
Blue Monday
Blue Monday Even though “Blue Monday” is in the rearview mirror (thank goodness) some of you may still be feeling its blahs. Wisdom Wednesday is here to brighten your day with an exploration of its pleasant ways of communicating. Inner Wisdom – it makes you – YOU inner wisdom – […]
Gut Reaction
Wisdom Wednesday Last week, in the first Wisdom Wednesday post, I invited you to tune into your “inner wisdom.” To observe it and to create a habit of paying attention to it. Take a moment now to recall what your observed during the week. Today we’ll go a bit deeper […]
Wisdom Wednesday
WISDOM WEDNESDAY is a four part series. One for each Wednesday in January 2023. Sign up to our email community at www.oakridgecounselling.com and get the remaining topics delivered to your inbox each week We all have “Inner Wisdom.” Call it a gut instinct, a way of knowing or even an individual […]