Christine Glenn, PhD
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We know what we are, but
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Effective counseling for emotional change, self understanding and personal growth
We tend to think about change when we are experiencing painful emotions or when we are struggling with a major decision or conflict. Counseling provides a time, a place and a process for reflecting on who we are and who we are becoming. Self-understanding and change become more conscious and certain.
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Are you finding it difficult to remain grounded and positive as you work with changes in your life? Change may be part of life but that does not make it easy. Change can be precipitated by outer events (e.g., relationship issues, divorce, illness, finances), by changing inner needs (e.g., what is the focus or meaning of my life now), or by the need to adjust to thinking styles such as ADD.
Change often leads to a series of personal questions - What do I need now? How does baggage from my past influence me today? How can I deal with the physical stress, anxiety and/or depression I am feeling?
Self-reflection and change may lead to long-term work. This generally involves dream work, body-focused techniques and other approaches to the unconscious as well as conscious reflection and problem solving. I can guide you through this process and help you resolve your questions more quickly.
I work on a short-term basis with people who choose to focus on specific problems or who want supportive coaching through job, career or life-style decisions.
Orientation: Jungian depth psychology; Existential psychology; Insight and solutions focus.
- Books I Recommend
- He, by Robert Johnson. A fanciful but brilliant introduction to symbolic thinking and the language of dreams.
- The Way of Woman, by Helen Luke. Essays examining some problems of living from a psychological perspective.
- In the Ever After, by Allan Chinen. Essays on midlife as reflected in folktales.
- Waking the Tiger, by Peter Levine. Discussion of the effects of trauma on the body and the need to heal both physically and psychologically.
- The Wounded Woman, by Linda Leonard. Powerful perspective on the father-daughter relationship.
Reflection promotes understanding.
Dreaming promotes vision.
Commitment promotes change.
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