
Couples Counseling and Adverse Childhood Experiences
Those who grow up with adverse childhood experiences may have more complicated perspectives on how people interact with one another due to their lived experiences. Childhood security and stability are not a given and can limit one’s perspective to the struggles that those that grew up with less than deal with.

Group Therapy for Adverse Childhood Experiences
A therapy group is a community of strangers drawn together through the desire to explore the consequences of life events, to share what we do not feel comfortable revealing elsewhere. A chance to be anonymous and known at the same time. A fresh look. A way to get out of the communities that have defined us, that keep us in a place where we can get stuck. Exchanging experiences with others opens up paths out of our stories into new stories with others. It literally rewires our brains. Learning from others expands your own potentials. Group therapy offers a way to move onward from lives we did not choose.

Landscape of Intention
Intention as a a road trip, is it about the destination or the trip? Is it possible to plan a “better” road trip in hindsight, when it seems easier to know where to sleep & eat and which roadside attractions are worth the effort?

Where There is Talk, There is Life
Whatever the reason for the group, whatever it is that brings the members together, when the facilitator focuses on inviting everyone to express their thoughts and feelings and demonstrates a sensitivity to everyone’s experience in the here and now, the group will follow.