I’d like you to imagine an adorable two year old. Now imagine that two year old poking your arm because she wants a cookie. Think to yourself, ‘it’s not so bad, she’ll stop soon,’ or something like that. The poking … Continue reading
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How Parents Can Help Relieve Test Taking Anxiety
May 7th, 2012It is safe to say that high stakes testing in public education has become a prevalent issue for students and parents alike. While facing a standardized test is stress-producing for most children, there are some youngsters for whom it is … Continue reading
Communication with Teenagers: Tips for Parents
April 29th, 2012It has been said that being the parent of a teenager is similar to that of being a parent of a child from Mars. They look different than you, act differently from you, and speak another language. Yet the parent’s … Continue reading
Setting Boundaries For Teenagers While Increasing Their Freedom
April 14th, 2012“Sink or Swim.” If you have teenagers you know what I am talking about. When children reach the ages of 15-17 parents begin to wonder whether or not it is time to let them make their own decisions. Parenting teenagers … Continue reading
Blended Family Counseling: Using the Developmental Model for Addressing Blended Family Issues
March 21st, 2012In order to assist blended families, counselors can use the Developmental Model by Patricia Papernow (1993) as a means to understand the specific issues that a blended family encounters. This model allows for movement back and forth through the stages … Continue reading
Family Traditions and Rituals
March 14th, 2012When providing family therapy services, it is important to understand how a family system functions. An important assessment of this is the presence or absence of rituals. Rituals in families have many purposes. They can tell us how people … Continue reading
Stages of Grief and Loss Counseling Techniques: Ritual in the Grief Cycle
March 7th, 2012Researchers (Holmes and Rahe, 1967 ) have studied grief cycle processes and assigned stress levels to items. Loss of a spouse and loss of a child are the highest stress levels. Others that we may not often think about are … Continue reading
Marriage After an Affair: Ending an Affair and Beginning Marriage and Family Counseling
February 22nd, 2012An affair is survivable. Millions of couples choose to stay together for many reasons. More often than not there is still love and a longing for the marriage to continue and this is what brings couples to marriage and family … Continue reading
Affairs: Can a Marriage Recover?
February 16th, 2012An affair strikes a devastating blow to a marriage. Whether the affair was a one-night stand, an emotional affair, or an illicit affair – an emotional affair combined with a physical relationship – the effects of having affairs can be … Continue reading
Does Marriage Counseling Work?
February 7th, 2012In our marriage counseling Houston area practice, the following is a generalized scenario our couples often articulate as a common experience that led them to marriage and family therapy: Dirk finished the last of his paperwork when he heard Dee … Continue reading
