New Living Counseling

10/22/2025

10/13/2025

Boundaries are most definitely not about living in the past, revenge, punishing people, and/or being a "bad" or "mean" or "uncaring" person: Absolutely NONE of that. Boundaries are about personal empowerment and clarity including, but not limited to, concretely defining and pointing abusive behavior in others that will no longer be tolerated in the present and the future (NOT the past). We can't set boundaries for past abusive behavior because of the undisputed observable reality that past events cannot be changed; However, moving forward we certainly can set boundaries.
Human abuse is anything but love: It is as simple as that.
May your life be free of human abuse.
Namaste ❤️
Credit: What is shown below courtesy of psychologist Henry Cloud

10/11/2025

Facing a life-threatening situation and/or the risk of serious harm, whether physical, mental, or both, coupled with experiencing terror combined with helplessness increases the chances that the person, in this case children, will experience traumatic stress.
Trauma is NOT an event: It is what happens inside one because of an event or a series of events that do not necessarily have to be life threatening.

09/24/2025

Via this post Dr. Frank Anderson debunks some of the most common myths about forgiveness INCLUDING self-forgiveness that, unfortunately, continue to circulate among us; For instance, forgiving another person, for the much hurt that the person caused you, DOES NOT automatically mean that you must continue a relationship with the person. Doing so is your own prerogative, not anybody else's.

09/22/2025

🆕Registration is open for an EMDR Therapy Novice / Certification Group that begins next month October 3rd, 2025.
Group Facilitator: Hector Pereles, LPC, LMHC (myself), EMDRIA Approved Consultant in Training
Come to enhance your professional development, knowledge, and skills in the clinical application of the standard, evidence-based EMDR therapy protocol. EMDR therapy consultation can help you become an EMDR expert: The expert in anything was once a beginner!

The group:
✅Features a four (4)-meeting commitment cohort
✅Focuses on helping further develop Francine Shapiro’s evidence-based EMDR therapy standard protocol knowledge and skills (e.g., conceptual, procedural)
✅Includes case consultation with topic presentation, case conceptualization, treatment planning, written case summaries, and near verbatim transcripts of the 8-phased standard EMDR therapy protocol
✅May address screening and assessment of dissociative disorders
✅Group consultation hours count toward EMDRIA EMDR Certification

📆Friday Group Dates: October 3, October 24, November 14, and December 5, 2025
⏳Friday Group Duration: Ninety (90) minutes
⏱ Friday Group Start Time: 12:00 PM U.S. EST (which is 11:00 AM CST, 10:00 AM MST, and 9:00 AM PST)
💲Fee: $140 (one-time payment for the four groups) or $44 per group (if paid in installments)

One-time/drop-in consultation groups are available too: Group date(s) / time(s) are to be determined according to demand. You may contact me directly about this.
Individual consultation meetings are also available at a relatively affordable cost.
For more information and/or if you’d like to register for any of these groups, you may contact me at:
hector@newlivingcounseling.com
Voice / Text at mobile number 470-239-0686

09/19/2025

Assertive communication and kindness certainly are NOT mutually exclusive conditions that can absolutely be learned and practiced. Believing that they are mutually exclusive is a popular myth. It so happens that attacking, shaming, and diminish someone in order to stand up for yourself is NOT assertive communication: It is something else (e.g., aggressive communication).

09/11/2025

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09/08/2025

An EMDRIA Certified Therapist™ has engaged in at least 20 hours of consultation with an EMDRIA Approved Consultant™ for EMDR and has practiced their skills with at least 25 different clients in at least 50 EMDR sessions. An EMDRIA Certified Therapist™ has voluntarily met standards of consultat...