Restoring Minds Counseling

08/19/2025

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💖 Happy National Couples Day! 💖 August 18th is all about celebrating love, laughter, and the one who makes life sweeter. 🥂✨ Whether you’re sharing inside jokes, building dreams, or working through challenges together, today’s a reminder that strong relationships are worth celebrating....

05/28/2025

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05/28/2025

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05/07/2025

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Do you ever feel that your wife doesn’t respect you? Maybe she has become controlling or critical. Does she ever tell you how to drive or what to wear or how to wipe off the counter? When you first met, she was fun and adventuresome and just wanted to be with you. But somehow that has changed. Wha...

03/22/2025

Four Ways to Improve Communication in Your Relationship
When a couple comes to see me for relationship counseling, one of the most common things they tell me is that they need help with their communication. Usually that means that they argue, bicker, fight or stonewall each other because one or both get their feelings hurt or they feel criticized and defensive. It can be exhausting and discouraging to feel like your relationship is so hard and you constantly fight. What I have found is that many times, we assume we know what the other person will say so we don’t actually listen to them but are thinking about what we need to say to defend ourselves. Here are three things you can practice to greatly improve communication in your relationships. Read more here: https://www.restoring-mindscounseling.com/work/4-ways-to-improve-communication-in-your-relationship

03/03/2025

Accelerated Resolution Therapy
An exciting new therapy to resolve trauma, PTSD and other mental health issues
See my new blog on this amazing treatment: https://www.restoring-mindscounseling.com/work/accelerated-resolution-therapy

02/14/2025

Stress Hacks- A review of two stress management tools
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Everyone seems to be under massive amounts of stress these days. From the constant doomsday reports on the news to our hyper scheduled yet sedentary lifestyles can leave us feeling frazzled and downright worn out. When we are chronically stressed our physical and mental health suffer. Exercise, eating whole organic foods and prayer and meditation or well known to calm our system. There are also some great inexpensive stress management items you can add to your stress management tool box. Two of these are under $50 and can be found easily on Amazon.com. Read more here: https://www.restoring-mindscounseling.com/work/best-two-stress-management-tools-going-viral

02/10/2025

5 Tips to Manage an Anxiety Attack
Do you find anxiety and worry is consuming your thoughts? Do you struggle to sleep at night because stressful and worrying thoughts keep circling around in your mind? Have you had moments when you experience unexplained panic, rapid heart rate and difficulty breathing? Anxiety, worry and stress are very uncomfortable emotions to experience. Sometimes people who experience anxiety attacks feel that there is something medically wrong with them but be reassured, anxiety is not dangerous even though it’s very uncomfortable. Read more: https://www.restoring-mindscounseling.com/work/5-tips-to-manage-an-anxiety-attack

01/29/2025

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Trauma and the resulting PTSD negatively affects people throughout the world; the soldier returning from war, a child victim of sexual assault, the mail car...

01/29/2025

Accelerate Resolution Therapy
A quick and easy solution for PTSD, Trauma and more
Accelerated Resolution Therapy, or ART, was created to help those who have experienced trauma to recover and heal. It does this through a natural process of the brain called memory reconsolidation. With treatment, you can change the way the traumatic memory is stored and replace negative images in the brain with positive images and sensations. The ART session begins with the patient bringing a past traumatic experience to mind and visualize the memory from beginning to end. The therapist’s hand moves the patient’s eyes from side to side, to help engage the visual part of the brain, and mimic REM- the dream stage of sleep during which memories are stored. Rapid Eye Movements allow the patient to reshape their memories and move them to long-term storage away from the forefront of the mind. The entire time the patient is in control, guided by the therapist, and only sharing what they choose. Meanwhile the therapist will help the patient stay relaxed and calm, processing any strong emotions that may come up during visualization. There’s no need to bring up specific details about your experiences that may be too painful to share.
The next step of ART is for the patient to imagine what they’d rather remember in place of the traumatic memory, continuing to use eye movements to facilitate the process. Voluntary Image Replacement is how negative images begin to be replaced with positive ones and is an important part of what makes ART so effective. Within just an hour to an hour and a half session, the patient is able to go through an entire memory, the emotions connected to it, and find relief.
ART has been used to treat patients with post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, trauma from sexual abuse, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, physical and mental challenges, addictions, grief and job or relationship issues.
If you’re feeling stuck and unable to move forward in life because of a traumatic event or a job that has exposed you to painful images and experiences, OCD, anxiety or phobias we urge you to give Accelerated Resolution Therapy a try and discover the hope and freedom from healing that so many of our patients have already experienced. To learn more, go to: https://www.restoring-mindscounseling.com/accelerated-resolution-therapy

01/22/2025

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01/22/2025

Is it better to get Relationship and Couples Counseling or Relationship Coaching?
When you first fall in love and the feel-good hormones are high, it’s easy to think that this feeling will never end and “love” will carry you through any bumps in your relationship road. Even if you have struggled in previous relationships, you think that maybe this time it will be different. Unfortunately, when the “honeymoon” phase wears out and everyday life becomes mundane, all those little things you ignored at first start to become more important. You may find yourself irritated at your spouse or partner, you may begin criticizing each other, which makes you defensive and you end up in fights. Sometimes it seems like the fighting, hostility and/or stonewalling is more prevalent than the good times and you wonder if you made a huge mistake. Maybe you wonder if you just aren’t compatible, or you question your motivation for getting together such as you were desperate to get out of your parents’ house or you were just immature and didn’t know better. You worry that if you don’t make changes soon, you will end up breaking up or divorced.
You decide to get some professional help but how do you decide what kind of help to choose? You could go to a relationship or couples counselor or you could choose a relationship coach. Is there a difference? If so, what and how do you choose?
How is Relationship Coaching different from Relationship Counseling?
Relationship counseling typically explores relationships by looking for patterns of early childhood attachment problems, psychological disorders, personality problems and wound healing. It works towards symptom reduction and increases personal insight.
Relationship coaching focuses on setting goals, understanding and expressing desires, getting new perspectives, learning skills, improving listening, inspiring personal change and making improvements in communication.
Typically a relationship counselor has a masters degree and holds a professional license such as a Licensed Marriage and Behavioral Therapist or a Licenced Professional Counselor. They can also provide relationship coaching.
A relationship coach often does not have a professional license and may or may not have a coaching certificate or education in the area of evidence based practices. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be helpful.
When looking for professional help to salvage your relationship, consider finding a relationship counselor that has experience in both counseling and coaching techniques. This way, you get the best of both worlds with evidence based research and techniques as well as helpful goal setting, accountability and inspiration.