Michael Van Dam is offering a ten-week group course for school-aged children designed to help children cope with and adjust to the impact of divorce. Having lost control of important areas of their lives, children of divorce often become anxious and distrustful. They can avoid closeness as a means of creating safety for themselves. The group setting is particularly valuable in deterring children from withdrawing socially and from suppressing anxiety and shame driven thoughts and feelings. The children will find comfort in learning that "they aren't the only one". A new normal will be established that will help the children proceed with reassurance, confidence, and hope.
Date: January 10 - March 13
Time: Tuesdays, 4:30 - 5:30 pm.
Cost: $250
For registration, contact Michael Van Dam, LCSW
vandam.michael@gmail.com
801-815-6152
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
SSA Parent Support Group
SSA Parent Support Group
Christy Cox LCSW
We are offering a Parent Support Group for parents whose children have Same Sex Attraction. The group not only offers support and an emotional exchange with other parents, but also offers information and tools in dealing with the feelings of grief, loss, and confusion. Christy has had 7 years of group and individual counseling with this population and has a close and caring understanding of the deep challenges that individuals and families face.Christy Cox LCSW
Tuesday, December 13, @ 5:00 - 6:15 pm. $25/Group.
We meet the second Tuesday of each month at Resilient Solutions, Inc, 1355 N. Main, Ste. 1, Bountiful, Utah. Contact Christy Cox, LCSW, 801.243.4959 for details.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Children of Divorce
See that the "children aren't forgotten" when divorce occurs.
Children who live in divorcing families often experience their primary relationships as "unpredictable and double binding". These children manage the resulting anxiety by narrowing their feelings and ideas about themselves, other people, and relationships into "very simple and rigid patterns". They become distrustful and begin to avoid closeness as a means of creating safety for themselves. They become distrustful and hard to reach such that they are difficult to engage (see "High-Conflict, Violent, and Separating Families" by Vivienne Roseby, Ph.D and Janet R. Johnston, Ph.D).
I am am now offering an interactive group designed to demystify children's responses to divorce, to reduce anxiety and shame related to their family experience, to know that "they aren't the only one", and to establish a "new normal" to help them proceed with assurance, confidence, and hope in their lives. As a Certified Music Therapist, I will incorporate musical interventions into the group format.
For information, contact Michael Van Dam, LCSW
vandam.michael@gmail.com
801-815-6152
Children who live in divorcing families often experience their primary relationships as "unpredictable and double binding". These children manage the resulting anxiety by narrowing their feelings and ideas about themselves, other people, and relationships into "very simple and rigid patterns". They become distrustful and begin to avoid closeness as a means of creating safety for themselves. They become distrustful and hard to reach such that they are difficult to engage (see "High-Conflict, Violent, and Separating Families" by Vivienne Roseby, Ph.D and Janet R. Johnston, Ph.D).
I am am now offering an interactive group designed to demystify children's responses to divorce, to reduce anxiety and shame related to their family experience, to know that "they aren't the only one", and to establish a "new normal" to help them proceed with assurance, confidence, and hope in their lives. As a Certified Music Therapist, I will incorporate musical interventions into the group format.
For information, contact Michael Van Dam, LCSW
vandam.michael@gmail.com
801-815-6152
Saturday, November 5, 2011
SSA Parent Support Group.
SSA Parent Support Group
Christy Cox LCSW
We are offering a Parent Support Group for parents whose children have Same Sex Attraction. The group not only offers support and an emotional exchange with other parents, but also offers information and tools in dealing with the feelings of grief, loss, and confusion. Christy has had 7 years of group and individual counseling with this population and has a close and caring understanding of the deep challenges that individuals and families face.
Tuesday, November 8, @ 5:00 pm. 1 ½ hours.
$25/group session
We meet the second Tuesday of each month.
Resilient Solutions, Inc.
1355 N. Main, Ste. 1
Bountiful, Utah 84010
Contact Christy Cox, 801.243.4959 for further details.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Mindful Grieving
Mindful grieving informs us to allow ourselves to feel what is there, without judgment. For me, there was sadness there and I needed to nonjudgmentally acknowledge it, feel it, and let it be. It was important in that moment that I didn't resist it or strive to make it any different, but just feel it as it was. Read the full text here .
Contact Becky Andrews, LPC, Fellow in Thanatology, to learn more about the upcoming groups that can support you to Mindfully Grieve. Becky can be reached at 801.259.3883 or email: becky.lpc@gmail.com
Contact Becky Andrews, LPC, Fellow in Thanatology, to learn more about the upcoming groups that can support you to Mindfully Grieve. Becky can be reached at 801.259.3883 or email: becky.lpc@gmail.com
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