5 Simple Steps to Stopping Limiting Beliefs in Their Tracks by Tamarisk Saunders-Davies, MBACP
A Dog’s Life: A Story of Perspective (and Stress) by Craig Harper, B.Ex.Sci.
Resilience and the Brain: Managing Emotions and Overcoming Trauma
Recovered Memories of Childhood Abuse by Jane Rowan
Anger Management Using the Compliment Sandwich by Dr. Lyle Becourtney, Ph.D.
Do You Need Other’s Approval by Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
How to Help Someone with Disordered Eating by Esther Kane, MSW, Registered Clinical Counsellor
Women and Stress: The Two Do Not Need to Go Together by Susan Liddy, CPCC
The Inner Child – A Modern Fable by Ross Bishop
Stress and the Economy by Sherry Gaba, LCSW
Marriage / Relationships»
The Pain of an Affair: Recovering from Infidelity by James W. Walkup, D.Min, MFT (2)
If you learn of infidelity in your marriage or relationship, your life can get turned upside down. You may even feel as though you are going crazy, in an emotional washing machine. If you have just found out about the infidelity, you feel like everything you had believed is now false. The person you thought you [...]
Advice»
Relationship Advice: Better to be alone or feel alone together? (0)
My partner & I have been living together for 14 years. I ignored earlier instints (red flags) and continued anyway. Suggested we go for counseling to deal with anger issues (family of origin issues), & to learn/practice better communication. Counseling refused several times over the years. I’m tired of emotional roller coaster & feeling emotionally [...]
Emotional / Mental Health»
Being in the Moment and Why it Matters (0)
Mindfulness. Presence. Being in the moment. All three of the above essentially mean the same thing – and practicing them can bring you more emotional and relationship health. It’s a practice, a reconditioning and training of your mind that can be done in meditation – or in every day life simply bringing your attention to things you [...]
Therapy»
What is Family of Origin Work? (1)
“What is family of origin work? Therapists will likely have slightly different interpretations of what it is – and how to go about doing the therapy work itself. My definition of “family of origin work” in it’s simplest form is, “healing from our past to be able to move forward in the present.” I have [...]
Guest Experts»
Cling Less, Love More by Rick Hanson, PhD (1)
Why? As a rock climber and a parent, I know some physical kinds of clinging are good – like to small holds or small hands! But clinging as a psychological state has a feeling of tension in it, and drivenness, insistence, obsession, or compulsion. As experiences flow through the mind – seeing, hearing, planning, worrying, [...]
About Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT»
Bio and Media Appearances for Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT (Comments Off)
Lisa Brookes Kift is a Marriage and Family Therapist – and author of The Premarital Counseling Workbook for Couples and The Marriage Refresher Course Workbook for Couples (Therapy-At-Home Workbooks®) – two of a planned series cost effective, do-it-yourself, therapist-guided workbooks for couples. She is the creator of The Toolbox at LisaKiftTherapy.com, providing tools for marriage, relationship and [...]
Therapy-At-Home Workbooks ®»
El Libro de Terapia Prematrimonial para Parejas por Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT (0)
The Premarital Counseling Workbook for Couples is now available in Spanish! El Libro de Terapia Prematrimonial para Parejas es el primero en mi serie de libros de terapia “Therapy-At-Home Workbooks®” que proveen una alternativa a la terapia tradicional que es costo efectiva, guiada por una terapeuta y con la facilidad de hacerlo uno mismo en [...]
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