Circle Counseling

05/14/2025

Have you experienced one of these poor people? As a therapist, I needed to do some study. I plan to present on sociopathy in the fall.

You decide whether a sociopath is president, Regardless, that 4% of the population has an out-sized influence on us all. What we don't know is hurting us.

05/07/2025

“By returning to inner silence, solitude, and stillness in these few minutes a day, your amygdala will be smaller. We know now you will be much less reactive and forgetful. We know you will have a larger insula, more gray matter, and overall much smoother connections to your very human pre-frontal cortex. You will have greater awareness and insight and focus and even compassion.” -- Carolyn Oates

It is in the pause, even brief turns, that our brains change and our feelings find meaning and our outlok expands. Jesus leads by example.

04/22/2025

Welcome to the team Carly Koenig!

01/20/2025

Thoughts on mentalizing -- it is fundamental and may be bigger than generally credited.

Mentalizing, if we boil it down, is just thinking about wat we think and feel, and feeling about what we feel and think -- with a clear mind and balanced heart.

10/01/2024

It is hard to get to the love you want unless you can see your defensive patterns and the patterns built into your relationships. Defensiveness sounds like a simple topic, but it is as complex as the love it undermines.

Defensiveness is a love killer. But let's not confuse that mechanism with our need to be consciously defended against what is bad for us. Love good trouble.

09/17/2024

Metaphors matter. Some personality styles are harder hit by faulty thinking than others.

Seeing ourselves as an ecosystem within an environment is not too hard to imagine until we want to change and see how our mechanistic metaphors thwart us.

09/04/2024

Welcome to Madequor Tetteh-Ocloo, our newest therapist!

08/13/2024

Finally all done on South Broad!

07/03/2024

I've witnessed so much anger this week. We might want to ponder that.

Some of us are angry because God won't deal with our anger. We've got to grasp it before we can let it go. Jesus will be with us all the way.

06/08/2024

Finally getting the window in on South Broad.

04/08/2024

Dr. Rod White collects some popular research findings about the impact of siblings on our adult feelings and patterns.

Research on how siblings impact our development and well-being is no longer scarce. But your awareness might not have kept up with all the good thinking.

01/20/2024

Dr. Gwen offers some help for when can't stop correcting ourselves and others.

I often hear myself say to my clients something like, “Let’s try to set aside correcting your thoughts and your feelings and focus on noticing them fully so we can explore them together and see where that leads us.” So often, as I am getting to know someone, I find that we get sidetracked by [...