The mood disorders depression and anxiety may be visualized as a
continuum, with some persons experiencing an "anxious
depression." At Beyond the Horizons Consulting we offer a variety
of meditations and other relaxation techniques for anxiety. We treat
depression through challenging belief systems and separating what is
realistic from what is unrealistic in the patient's belief system.
For both conditions we offer cognitive-behavioral therapy and specific
behavioral assignments.
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Solution-focused therapy is brief therapy: By harnessing the forces of
the unconscious and through healing metaphors, we can often resolve deep
emotional issues in a short time period. The use of family
constellations, going back several generations, can often bring unique
insights which allow the patient to move forward rapidly in positive
directions.
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Jean Eva at Soft Skills for Tough Issues combines several techniques to
get couples to talk honestly to each other not only about their
perceptions of events, but more importantly about their feelings.
Emotional Intimacy is the heart of all forms of intimacy.
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Family Counseling
Jean Eva applies a unique treatment plan to each family who comes for
therapy based on the needs of each individual in the family but also
predicated on increasing the strength and health of the marital
bond.
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Parenting Education and Support
Parents learn their parenting techniques from how they were parented!
There are four basic styles of parenting, and couples choose theirs in
response to either tacitly agreeing with or clearly disagreeing with how
they were parented. We deal with such issues as family meetings;
appropriate consequences for misbehavior, instituting a reward system in
the family; helping parents work with children's emotions; and many
other helpful topics.
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Grief Counseling
Jean Eva helps patients work through the five steps of grief as
outlined by Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross. Grief may result from losing a
person (either to death or divorce; losing a valued friendship; losing a
work situation; or any other loss. The grief process is different for
each person. Therefore the time needed to process the grief and move
forward with one's life depends on the individual's personality
and circumstances.
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Work and Career Issues
Jean Eva is a Key Affiliate with Cigna Healthcare and is also a
provider with many Employee Assistance Programs. She has mediated many
disputes in the workplace and has also worked with individuals who come
on their own or who have been mandated to counseling for workplace
issues. She is also a Career Coach who uses both the Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator and the materials from Target Training International to help
individuals move ahead on their career path or choose a new one
compatible with their personality.
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Stress Management
Stress is synonymous with living in today's fast-paced, electronic
world. However, identifying the stressors in a patient's life and
dealing with them individually by making appropriate life style changes
is a most helpful step in living a more sane life. Sometimes the
stressors can be the result of trying to be a supermom, super-wife or
super-employee, in which cases we will look at codependency
issues.
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Jean Eva is not a Substance Abuse Professional. However, as a Marriage
and Family Therapist, she is quite aware of how substance abuse and
other addictions affect all members of the family. Here at Soft Skills
for Tough Issues we take into effect the genetic and brain-based aspect
of addiction, but we also utilize the deeper aspects of a patient's
psychological history to aid in recovery.
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Conflict Resolution and Mediation
Much of the work we do at Soft Skills for Tough Issues is conflict
resolution between partners or in the family. Jean Eva has also been
successful in developing plans to resolve conflict in the workplace. At
Soft Skills for Tough Issues, we help all parties to see each
other's perspective by validating everyone involved in the
mediation. We then pursue an Interest-Based mediation protocol wherever
possible.
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Please see our webpage entitled "EMDR." EMDR goes beyond talk therapy in accessing images, beliefs,
emotions, thoughts and body sensations to aid in healing from traumatic
events, such as being physically attacked, being raped, having lived in
a war zone, or having experienced traumatic events during
childhood.
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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a powerful personality type
indicator which validates a person's choices, feelings, thoughts,
and life style. It can be successfully used in couple's therapy, in
career counseling, and with workplace teams. Jean Eva is a Certified
Administrator of the MBTI. (Please see the MBTI webpage for more
information.)
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