Layout Image
  • Welcome
  • Services
    • Women
    • Children
    • Groups
    • Classes
  • About
    • Testimonials
    • Dreams
  • Fees
    • Diagnostic Srceenings
  • Contact
    • Forms
    • Map
  • Resources
    • Your Thoughts
    • EBook – Dream Analysis
  • Blog

Connect With Me

Twitter FaceBook LinkedIn

Get Free Report

Your Child's Anxiety
Increasing Life Satisfaction and Decreasing Stress

Blog Topics

  • Anger
  • Dreams
  • Motivation
  • Self Esteem
  • Self-Care

Certified In:

The Brain and Behavior by the Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior (IAHB)

Coufounder of:

The Development Center

The Development Center, LLC is a company dedicated to the Mental Health field in the development of business excellence through a mentoring process that specializes in private practice and leadership development.

Office Hours

Mon-Friday 9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Phone: (360) 718-8544

Loading Quotes...

Archive for Goals

What Is Motivation?

By admin · Comments (0)
Monday, April 27th, 2009

How can you tell if someone is motivated?

Motivation refers to the initiation, direction of intensity and
persistence of behavior (Green, 95).
Motivation means to move, deployment of energy is often evidence of motivation.

This motivation is the desire and willingness to do.

Indirect motivation-action satisfies an intermediate goal which can
lead to satisfaction of a need; money.

Direct motivation-action satisfies the need; job satisfaction.

To produce the highest level of motivation, extrinsic and intrinsic
goals
need to be combined.

Extrinsic goals are:

  • Reinforces that come from outside of your self.
  • External rewards such as praise, money (when value is placed on money)
  • Food, toys, etc. (yes many people are and do get rewarded with food) Read More→
  • Share/Bookmark
Comments (0)
Categories : Motivation
Tags : Goals, Motivation

Children

By admin · Comments (0)
Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Individual Counseling and Support for Children

help for kids - Counseling

  1. Help with Autism, Asperger’s, Non-Verbal Learning Disorders and ADHD
  2. Individualized behavioral and developmental-based counseling
  3. Play therapy, art, cartooning and narrative stories to help children achieve self awareness/insight for positive visible changes
  4. Increase positive peer relations to decrease bullying and teasing, improve conflict resolution, problem-solving and social skills for children with Autism, Asperger’s, Sensory Disorders, Non-Verbal Learning Disorders and ADHD
  5. Teaching self monitoring and self management skills for children ages 6 to 16
  6. Providing parenting and family support with periodic consultations as needed
  7. Helping children and teens with feelings of sadness, irritability, low energy and anger outbursts that sometimes result from poor peer relations.

Free Report – Your Child’s Anxiety

For help with Children and Teens contact me.

  • Share/Bookmark
Comments (0)
Categories :
Tags : action, awareness, camas counselor, cognitive therapy, conflict resolution, coping skills, counseling, counseling services, emotions, family therapy, feelings, Goals, guidance, insight, kids counselor, Motivation, play therapy, self management, Therapist, vancouver counselor, vancouver therapist, Well Being Coach

Professional Services

By admin
Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Professional Services AvailableCounseling and Life Coaching Services

  • Specializing in Women’s issues, worries, confidence, self esteem concerns, sadness, grief, trauma, situational stress and relationships
  • Children’s Therapy including Social Skill Building
  • Dream Analysis with Authored Workbook
  • Lucid Dream Facilitation (PTSD)
  • Personalized Exercise Programs
  • Workshops, Parenting Consultations

Available are the screening tools from Dr. Amen who has identified 7 different Anxiety and Depressions and 6 different types of ADD/ADHD.

The 7 different types of Anxiety and Depression:

  • Pure Anxiety
  • Pure Depression
  • Mixed Anxiety and Depression
  • Over focused Anxiety and Depression
  • Temporal Lobe Anxiety and Depression
  • Cyclic Anxiety and Depression
  • Lights are low Anxiety and Depression

The 6 different types of ADD/ADHD:

  • Classic ADD
  • Over focused ADD
  • Temporal Lobe ADD
  • Limbic ADD
  • Ring of Fire ADD
  • Share/Bookmark
Categories :
Tags : adjustment disorder, anxiety therapy, anxiety treatment, asperger's, autism, camas counselor, cognitive therapy, consultations, counseling services, depression disorder, depression treatment, dream, Dream Analysis, dreaming, Dreams, family therapy, Goals, grief, health & wellness, individual therapy, kids counselor, loss, lucid dreaming, lucid dreams, Motivation, nightmare, nightmare resolution, nightmares, professional counselor, PTSD, sadness, self awarenesss, self knowledge, Stress, vancouver counseling, vancouver therapist, womens counselor
In Touch Counseling 203 SE Park Plaza Dr. Park Tower II Suite #105 Vancouver Washington 98684
Copyright © 2010 All Rights Reserved
Website by: Premium Websites, LLC