Posts by Terri Dichiser
Individual Counseling for National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
If individual counseling is what you are seeking, it’s available at Take Charge, Inc., in Overland Park, Kansas. We are recognizing September as National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Did you know every 40 seconds, someone loses their life to suicide? On average, 129 Americans die through suicide every day. Suicide is the 12th leading cause…
Read MoreMarriage Counseling Helps Cope With Emotional Triggers
Marriage counseling can help you to manage emotional triggers that affect your relationship. Experiences from our past can make us oversensitive in our current relationships. A simple word or action from a partner can open up old wounds that have nothing to do with them. These emotional triggers often elicit out-of-proportion or inappropriate responses that…
Read MoreIndividual Counseling Can Help Understand Emotional Triggers
Individual counseling can help you to identify and cope with your emotional triggers. An emotional trigger is any topic or event that causes a strong reaction related to past trauma. The correlation may be obvious, but more often it takes a little work to figure out where your triggers come from. Once you identify your…
Read MoreIndividual Counseling: Why Does A Narcissist Bring Up Your Childhood Trauma?
Individual counseling can help you learn how to deal with a narcissistic partner in marriage and can help you learn why they continue to bring up your own childhood trauma. Trauma means an unhealed wound and the person needs to protect themselves constricting their ability to feel, be present and respond flexibly. Trauma isn’t defined…
Read MoreMarriage Counseling: Dealing With Fear Of Rejection In Relationships
Marriage counseling often deals with the fear of rejection in relationships, and figuring out how to make changes to address this fear is important. Fear of rejection often happens when one person feels extremely vulnerable in the relationship, which to a degree, is natural. People have a deep-seated need to belong and feel wanted and respected. If…
Read MoreIndividual Counseling Can Help Cope With Fears About Mass Shootings
Individual counseling at Take Charge, Inc. can help you and as you parent your children to manage complicated feelings and fears that arise around shootings. The recent school shootings have caused students, parents, teachers, relatives, and concerned community members to experience scary, complicated feelings about these tragedies, and it is important to talk about and understand…
Read MoreIndividual Counseling For Dealing With Fear Of Rejection
Individual counseling at Take Charge, Inc. can help you deal with and overcome fear of rejection. Most of us get a bit nervous in situations where we might experience rejection, but for some this fear can become overwhelming and keep us from moving forward in our lives. Fear of rejection can be caused…
Read MoreMarriage Counseling: How Fawning Impacts Relationships
Marriage counseling can help you to understand fawning behavior in your relationship and heal the trauma that causes it. Fawning is a trauma response that is typical in trauma-bonded relationships and common in codependency. Fawning behavior is an attempt to appease or please our partner to avoid conflict. When fawning, we prioritize our attachment in…
Read MoreStop People-Pleasing Behavior through Individual Counseling
Individual counseling can help you to understand and unlearn the people-pleasing behavior known as fawning. Fawning is a trauma response in which the individual seeks safety by deferring to the needs and wishes of others and forfeiting their own in the process. This compulsive mirroring of the expectations and desires of others causes the traumatized…
Read MoreMarriage Counseling: “Being Strong” Doesn’t Help
Marriage counseling can help you to strengthen your relationship by learning to be more vulnerable. As we discussed in our last blog, we are often told to “be strong” in the face of overwhelming or negative emotions, but we do this to our own detriment and often at the expense of our closest relationships. Hiding…
Read MoreIndividual Counseling Debunks Myths About Emotions
Individual counseling helps you to identify and correct inaccurate beliefs you have about your emotions that are holding you back. We all have been told throughout our lives that we must “be strong” but that has led to an epidemic of people who bottle up their emotions in unhealthy ways. Emotions serve important purposes in…
Read MoreMarriage Counseling For Emotional Neglect
In marriage counseling, we often find that the root cause of emotional neglect within the relationship is the childhood emotional neglect experienced by one or both partners. Being emotionally neglected as a child typically results in “emotion blindness”, or an inability to connect with your own emotions, which often extends to your partner as well.…
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