20 Jul
Family Systems therapy helps individuals, families, communities, and organizations solve major life problems through understanding and improving human relationships. This theory is based on the knowledge that couples, families and their individual members function as an entwined emotional group that influence and are influenced by each another’s behaviours and choices. Counsellors/Therapists know that the relationship [...]
Jill Arnold is a Registered Clinical Counsellor based in White Rock, BC
Misunderstandings create additional stress when the person you are trying to communicate with does not get what you are saying. You can improve your odds of being understood by following these 5 tips. 1. Be clear in your own mind what you are wanting to accomplish. 2. Be calm when you present your point of [...]
Anxiety symptoms can be linked to chronic stress at work, ask yourself if you: 1. Wake up dreading going to work. 2. Have difficulty going to sleep on Sunday night thinking about going back to work 3. Notice that uncomfortable emotional or physical symptoms disappear when you are on vacation. 4. Feel physically tense and [...]
It has been long studied and understood that occupational stress contributes to anxiety symptoms. Factors that contribute to these symptoms often include: 1. Little decision making ability over systems in place even if they don’t seem to make sense to you. 2. Interpersonal challenges, working with people who are demeaning, demanding or unpleasant 3. A [...]
Intense anxiety and panic attacks are much more common than you think. But intense anxiety and panic attacks are often so unexpected that many people are often diagnosed for the first time at the emergency room. Why? Because they believe they are actually having a heart attack. Based on my experience as a therapist specializing [...]
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