Map: Winchester, Virginia 22601Divisions:
Map: Winchester, Virginia 22601
Our approach to mental health counseling and education emphasizes prevention, wellness, and positive mental health for individuals and couples. We bring over 30 years of experience with a unique orientation that blends traditional counseling and psychotherapy with Jungian Psychology, Imago Relationship Therapy, and Body/Mind techniques. Cost effective? If you can't afford prevention how can you afford illness? A year of counseling is less expensive than one hospitalization.
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Lorraine K. DeZarn, Ed.S. Counselor in residence. Counsels with children, adolescents, and adults.
Maureen Gorman, LPC
incorporates art, play, story and talk in therapy specializing in children, adolescents and family issues, particularly family changes.
Services:
A Time for Couples.
Services to help couples identify the unconscious factors in their relationship in order to heal, repair, and further the individuation of each partner in a safe, committed, and loving relationship.
The Couple's Workstation is an online membership website area designed for couples who are doing the kind of relationship work that we practice here at the Counseling Center for Imago Relationship Therapy. This may be used as a helpful supplement to counseling, or simply as a relationship enhancement tool that you can benefit from on your own. We are pleased to offer it to you as an additional service in the privacy and comfort of your home.
You may take a free tour by clicking on the following link: Gateway to the Couple's Workstation . Be sure you have turned on your speaker system! If you have any questions about the forms or processes, we would be happy to help! Call or email Geoff Byrd, above.
Psychological Type.
Using typology for increased understanding of oneself and one's partner furthers growth for individuals and couples. Learn how type affects communication styles, expression of needs and feelings, playing, "fighting", and other shadow elements.
Dream Study Groups. (Educational)
Dreams provide a deep and rich source of insight and understanding that connects us with a wisdom far beyond ourselves. As we unravel their meaning we become more aware of who we truly are.
Counseling Services.
Services are available for individuals and couples who may be experiencing stress, anxiety, depression, and for those who may be recovering from addictions, abuse, neglect, or co-dependency.
Additionally, specialized services are offered for Child, Adolescent, and Family Counseling.
Consciousness Development: "CD" groups.
Educational groups for Consciousness Development. (See Mind-Body-Spirit Groups under Seminars, below.)
Seminars: Descriptions of groups and seminars offered.
"Whenever we speak of a 'psychological relationship' we presuppose one that is conscious, for there is no such thing as a psychological relationship between two people who are in a state of unconsciousness." --- C.G. Jung.
"Human beings are not very keen on substituting reality for the allurement of fantasies. We prefer to go on looking for the perfect man or woman, that is the man or woman who will fit our ideal image and guarantee that we are happy and fulfilled, even though it leads to one disappointment after another, and adds more and more bitterness to our cup of life". --- John A. Sanford.
"We have not yet learned to handle the tremendous power of romantic love. We turn it into tragedy and alienation more often than we evolve it into enduring human relationships. But if men and women come to understand the psychological dynamics behind romantic love and learn to handle them consciously, they will find a new possibility of relationship both to themselves and to others." --- Robert Johnson.
Imago Relationship Therapy is the first systematic theory of marriage and marital therapy derived exclusively from the study of couples. Its aim is to help couples create a "conscious marriage". This entails helping couples identify and integrate their unconscious issues, so that the relationship may fulfill its natural purpose of mutual healing, collaborative self-development, and wholeness. The basis for healthy parenting, especially co-parenting, is found in the patterns learned in childhood and repeated in adult marital relationships. For "better or worse", these patterns are repeated (often unconsciously) in parenting our own children.
Imago Relationship Therapy provides the basis for understanding how relationships really work, taking into account that childhood experiences form an unconscious image (The Imago) that is then sought after in a partner. Unconscious images play a powerful role in the formation of identity and the choice of a partner. The unconscious forces that attracted us to our partner may also be the source of conflicts and power struggles that develop in the relationship. These patterns are then repeated in the parenting of our own children.
Imago Relationship Therapy provides a powerful and effective method for helping couples learn how to heal rather than continue to hurt one another, often unintentionally passing these hurts on to our own children. By becoming conscious of the childhood wounds that affect your relationship, you learn to become "wounded healers" for one another in a safe, intimate, and committed relationship, and conscious, healthy parenting together!
The Couple's Workstation is an online membership website area designed for couples who are doing the kind of relationship work that we practice here at the Counseling Center for Imago Relationship Therapy. This may be used as a helpful supplement to counseling, or simply as a relationship enhancement tool that you can benefit from on your own. We are pleased to offer it to you as an additional service in the privacy and comfort of your home.
You may take a free tour by clicking on the following link: Gateway to the Couple's Workstation . Be sure you have turned on your speaker system! If you have any questions about the forms or processes, we would be happy to help! Call or email Geoff Byrd, above.
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We offer administration and interpretation of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, individual and relationship counseling around type, as well as groups and lunch time discussions of typology related topics such as communications styles, behavior under stress, expression of needs and feelings, and integrating shadow aspects!
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"Bringing the contents of the unconscious realm into conscious awareness so that we can know ourselves and fulfill our destinies is the sacred mission of human beings. One of the best ways I know of to answer this calling is to examine our dreams. As we decode their mysterious symbols and find ways to fit their meaning into the unfolding puzzle of our lives, we integrate the spiritual and archetypal aspects of our experience and move closer to becoming completed individuals." --- Robert Johnson.
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Child, Adolescent, and Family Counseling is available for;
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Body/Mind/Spirit Integrative Health Education Groups:
Participants learn and practice a variety of mind-body techniques to increase self-awareness, reduce stress, increase immunity, and re-energize the Self!
BODY/MIND ENERGETIC LEARNING is based both on the wisdom of ancient healing traditions and modern psychoneuroimmunology, in which mysticism and science are co-creating a new, sacred healing art. While emotions link the mind and the body, the Source behind these patterns is energetic and Spiritual. Healing and high level wellness occurs energetically as transformative repatterning and alignment with higher energies in physical, mental and transpersonal dimensions.
These training groups are appropriate for persons experiencing emotional distress or chronic illnesses as well as those interested in proactively fostering health and happiness. Groups involve an introduction to various body/mind techniques such as biofeedback and relaxation, meditation and prayer, bio energetic exercise (Tai Chi, Qigong and Yoga), nutrition, cellular biology and the effects of consciousness and belief on health, music and artistic expression, relationships and support. Each participant will complete the program having developed a Personal, Conscious Health Plan.
Groups are limited to 6 - 10 participants and meet for 2 hours weekly in 2 four week segments or a weekend format.
Rather than a shallow approach or quick fix solution, taking the time to really explore the nature of personality gives individuals and organizations a grasp of themselves and others that is not only personally gratifying, but may well contribute to a more satisfying bottom line.
People who are more psychologically sophisticated are better able to accept the reality of things (and people) as they really are, rather than how they may wish them to be!
People who get along and work well together through an understanding and acceptance of individual personalities- their similarity and differences - are more productive, effective, and efficient!
Authentic Management is about discovering who people really are, and encouraging them to motivate and express themselves from within, rather than attempting to manipulate and control people's motivation and behavior from without.
Personality - Centered management is not about problems or pathology! It is about the natural and healthy growth and development that is the focus of good mental health, in the work place and at home, in personal as well as professional relationships. And learning about such things at work contributes to the value of the work place in every area of one's life; economically, personally, and even spiritually.
Licensed Mental Health Counselors may not only be helpful as trainers and consultants, but also have the expertise to provide a professionally administered and interpreted personality assessment. Counseling Associates offers certified clinical mental health counselors that are specifically oriented towards facilitating the process of healthy growth and development that Carl Jung so aptly named the Individuation Process
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