Linda Miller-deBerard leads clients to relief from depression and anxiety leading from relationship issues. Linda has more than 20 years of experience as a state-licensed counselor with a master’s degree. She is independently licensed in Texas and provides various services including assessments and a variety of psychotherapeutic interventions (counseling sessions). Confidential Care Professional Counseling, based in Colleyville, Texas, specializes in treatment of women’s issues, marriage counseling and mood disorders. Here, she talks about everything from communicating better with your partner to recovering from divorce.
What is an Initial Marriage Counseling Meeting?
Many people are wary of attending couples counseling, but it’s not as scary as you might think. The first session here at Confidential Care Professional Counseling is all about getting to know you as individuals, and pointing out what you think bothers your partner about you. It might be an untraditional approach, but it works!
Committing to Couple Time
Taking time to be together as a couple is vital when it comes to sorting out your shared problems. Accommodating the other person is also important, which means participating in activities you might not find interesting, but which your partner really cares about.
How to Communicate Better with Your Partner
You might think that you and your partner talk together nicely. But your partner cannot hear you if he or she perceives that he or she is being attacked, judged, blamed or criticized. Learning how to communicate in a safe, open and tolerant environment is key when it comes to getting your relationship back where it belongs.
Marital Solutions Right For You
Finding solutions that work for you as a couple is what it’s all about when it comes to couples counseling. At Confidential Care Professional Counseling, time is taken to make sure that you have the right type of therapy you need to thrive as a couple.
Effective Couples Counseling
Effective counseling teaches people not only to deal better with the present, but to see how the past affects every part of their lives. Healing each other based on what you have learned from each other’s pasts is also one way to build upon a better and ultimately stronger relationship.
How to Be a Good Listener in a Relationship
It’s important to have the channels of communication always open in a relationship, and for each partner to be more than willing to listen in an open and receptive way. You need not only to understand your partner’s feelings but also why he is feeling that way.
Safe Communication in Relationships
If you are having problems in your relationship, things can feel a lot worse if you are unable to talk openly with your partner, without the feeling that you will be criticized or blamed. Being able to communicate safely together is the first step in making things better. Learn how here.
How We Choose Our Partners
You may think that once you have found your “soul mate” that everything will be easy sailing for the rest of your life. Not so. We are unconsciously attracted to both negative and positive characteristics, and once the romantic euphoria has worn off, we have a completely separate, individual person to deal with whom might not be what we initially imagined.
Healing Stress Through Your Relationships
Women in particular are so stressed these days that this inevitably takes a toll on our lives. As a result, we can suffer from anxiety, sadness and even flagging libidos. If this is the case with you, get help before things get even worse. It’s never too late to get even healthier than you are today – and happier!
Signs Your Relationship May Be In Trouble
If your relationship seems to take a back seat to everything else or you find yourself constantly bickering and squabbling over trivial matters, your relationship may need a kick-start. Couples counseling is one way the two of you can learn to re-connect and get things back on track.
Can Every Marriage be Saved?
People who come to Confidential Care Professional Counseling are encouraged to make every attempt possible to save their marriage. But in cases where saving it would be detrimental, especially when children are involved, sometimes divorce is the only answer.
What is Collaborative Divorce?
Collaborative divorce is a relatively new concept in which both partners are encouraged to make decisions about their divorce themselves. They work together with a team of neutral parties to hammer out the details, in hopes that it will be a much less antagonistic effort than a traditional divorce.
What is Divorce Recovery?
If you are going through a divorce, there is no doubt you will travel through several emotions, including denial, anger, bargaining and acceptance. Things can be made a lot easier if you have someone to talk things over with. At Confidential Care Professional Counseling, you will have the opportunity to talk with a trained professional, and help make the transition much easier.
All About Cognitive Therapy
Cognitive therapy is one way people can begin to feel less stressed and relieve anxiety that may be plaguing their lives. It’s a simple thing, helping you learn that how you perceive things is how they are. Change your perceptions and your world will change as well.
Does Short-Term Therapy Work?
Short-term therapy can work for some people and not for others. It’s a loaded question – certain types of therapy fit certain types of people, and most can benefit only from tailor-made sessions that help their particular problems.
How Therapy Helps Relieve Anxiety and Stress
Anxiety and stress can blight lives, so it’s important to do something about it if you feel you are becoming too stressed or anxiety-driven. Often, just taking the time to verbalize your problems to a happy listener can make all the difference. And a trained listener is even better.
Counseling to Become a Better Parent
Parenting, for most people, is the hardest job they will ever face. Unfortunately, it’s also a job for which the majority of us have no training. Sometimes it can help to talk to a professional if you believe your child has problems, as well as changing the home environment and the way you deal with your child can have a tremendous impact.
How Counseling Can Improve Self-Esteem
Self-esteem should come from the inside, and you should not judge yourself based on outside indicators such as job, relationship or looks. Every person should work on building up his own self-esteem, as it is an important building block contributing greatly to how we feel about ourselves and our lives.
What Individual and Family Counseling Can Offer
If you want to feel better about yourself, improve your sense of self-esteem and learn how to manage stress better and reduce anxiety, counseling could be what you need. It is also recommended to help people cope with grief and loss, divorce recovery, and sexual issues.
Therapy for Sexual Abuse
Dealing with the aftermath of sexual abuse can be difficult. Many people can’t remember exactly what happened to them, and many blame themselves. Getting a good counsellr to talk things over can help, not to force you to bring up repressed memories but to get over the blame and move on with your life.
