What kinds of topics do people talk about in counseling?
- General life stressors- identify and express your thoughts and feelings and brainstorm solutions to problems.
- Family of Origin Issues- investigate how family dynamics may be replaying in your life today.
- Career planning and workplace issues- establish a long term career plan, practice self promotion skills to increase visibility, and learn to demonstrate interpersonal diplomacy in the work place.
- Health Issues- improve mood by tending to your body and physical health.
- Intimacy Issues- better solve conflicts and nurture connection in love and friendship.
- Codependency Issues- stop neglecting your own needs and feelings in order to feel loved by others.
- Coming Out Issues- not everyone will be supportive. Who is it important to come out to and why?
A Note on Healing and Transformation
Depression and anxiety are often not merely chemical imbalance issues; they are often a necessary part of our transformation cycle-- a calling to understand ourselves better and to make changes in our lives and belief systems.
'I am not what happened to me. I am who I choose to become." - Carl Jung
What is Walk and Talk Counseling?
Walk and talk counseling is just what is sounds like. Rather than sitting indoors and on a couch, a client and therapist walk and talk outdoors.
Research shows that as little as 20 minutes of outdoor walking increased the same neurotransmitters that antidepressants target like serotonin and norepinephrine, as well as Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) which promotes synaptic growth and is now believed to play an important role in treating depression.
Walk and talk counseling is just what is sounds like. Rather than sitting indoors and on a couch, a client and therapist walk and talk outdoors.
Research shows that as little as 20 minutes of outdoor walking increased the same neurotransmitters that antidepressants target like serotonin and norepinephrine, as well as Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) which promotes synaptic growth and is now believed to play an important role in treating depression.