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Individual Counseling
At Isenberg & Associates and Dunham Counseling, we offer counseling and coaching to work through life difficulties. People simply need an experienced objective person with whom they can confidentially share their particular life problems, aspirations for the future, sort through their choices and make decisions.
We are trained to listen for what you are really saying, and ask the relevant questions that you are not asking, but which will help in decision making. We help you think and feel through problems and hopes so you can respect your choices and plan for the future.
Life Coaching
Over a lifetime people pass through many transitional and developmental periods. These times of change create increased emotional stress and can lead to anxiety and even a depressed mood. Life transitions feel unstable and sometimes out of control. But these times can always offer a great opportunity for self growth. It is during these times when an objective therapist can lead you to a better understanding of strengths to help you to move forward.
Isenberg and Associates and Dunham Counseling Center offers a confidential and therapeutic relationship which provides a safe and relaxed environment to talk through life’s problems, share deep concerns and sort through your opportunities for the future. Often just having an objective person to ‘bounce ideas off of’ can lead to new insights and exciting ways to overcome obstacles. A therapist helps you to ask the right questions and think through problems to enable you to feel more energized and confident with your choices in life.
Psychotherapy
Understanding oneself is often a life-long journey. Unresolved issues can follow you through life and often create problems in an attempt to resolve these issues. In this attempt, you may only recognize the damage that is done to yourself and to others well after the fact. You may not even be aware what role your own actions, thoughts and expectations play in a pattern of life’s disappointments and feelings of never seeming to get what you need or want out of life.
You may find yourself being angry, hurt, disappointed or depressed. Perhaps you turn to relationships that don’t work, choose the wrong people to depend on, lose trust in others or even avoid facing your issues by using drugs and alcohol. You might find that life is just not what you want it to be and it may seem that you aren’t moving ahead, or are just not happy. When issues seem repetitive, you may consider psychotherapy with someone who can offer the depth and perspective needed to change your self-defeating behavior so you can get more from your life's experiences.
Psychotherapy is an effective way to handle those feelings and to learn to understand the self-defeating patterns that prevent you from getting what you need in life. A trained, confidential and supportive therapist can help bring healing, a deeper understanding and a new perspective to help you make new choices for a better life now and in the future. Healing may take time but the investment can provide meaningful and purposeful life change.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Certain psychological issues of anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, anger, or feelings of low-self worth often require specific interventions. At Isenberg & Associates and Dunham Counseling Center, we have several therapists trained in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy techniques to help you identify and change patterns of thoughts that lead to negative emotions and expectations in life.
Thoughts and feelings are deeply connected. We all learn automatic patterns of thought and assumptions that affect our outlook, expectations and feelings. Often these automatic-thought patterns become distorted by negative perceptions and can lead to depression or anxiety or they may just rob you from seeking what you need out of life.
Most often people are not even aware of automatic thought patterns. These thoughts and assumptions happen so fast that it can be difficult to identify them easily. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy seeks to help to identify problematic thoughts and assumptions to correct the inaccurate self-talk that negatively affects life perceptions and mood. Once problematic thoughts are identified, you can learn to reframe the thoughts with more realistic assumptions to begin to overcome negative patterns that prevent you from moving forward in life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has years of study and research to support that it is an effective treatment, especially for anxiety, panic, phobias and depression.
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