Oct 21, 2019
2 min

The Johari Window

I’ve had several conversations with my boys lately about the stress of school and pressure to “put on a happy face” at school even if they are feeling tired, overwhelmed, or otherwise no cheerful. This leads to a discussion of self, who are you?, do you think your friends what you to be?, do YOU want to be? I thought back to my group counseling practice and used one of my favorite self-awareness exercises to help them navigate the constant internal questions we have when inte

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Laura

Oct 11, 2019
1 min

Understanding Domestic Violence

This subject is very close and important to me. After my graduate degree I spent a little over a year counseling both victims and perpetrators of Domestic Violence (DV) / Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and here's what I learned: Intimate Partner Violence is not about anger, it is about power and control. There is no way for a victim to change the pattern of behavior of the abuser. Abusers spend a great deal of time and effort systematically breaking down their victim, this i

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