Our select clients receive the very best of today’s technologies, discoveries in neurology, performance coaching, and counseling strategies. Our system of high performance neurofeedback is a completely natural process, restoring our client’s feelings of clarity, focus, peace, and sleep. Our brains can get stuck in repetitive, even ritualized behavior patterns. We can get stuck in bad attitudes, believing lies about ourselves, and destructive habits. While talking therapy, or psychotherapy, may be helpful in some ways at addressing these problems, High … Read More
What To Say, and What Not to Say, When Someone Has Died
Our words are powerful – they can bring “life” or “death, “ “blessings” or “curses.” It is so very important for us to learn to speak in the language of the Kingdom of God. For so many years we learned how to speak the language of the kingdom or darkness, or secularism, or fatalism. But in order for us to represent the Kingdom of Light, Life, and Freedom – and to speak to others on behalf of the Great King … Read More
The Real Truth Behind the Lies That We Believe
Improving Your Life Today, By Getting Rid of the Lies that We Believe From Our May 2016 Newsletter Having been a pastor and a professional therapist in Bear Valley Springs, Tehachapi, and Bakersfield for over 25 years, I have had the opportunity to meet and work with some really great people. One of my favorites is Sherry Rose, a pastoral counselor in Bakersfield, and a good friend of mine. She has written a new book, a 30 day devotional titled … Read More
10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DEPRESSION : COUNSELING TEHACHAPI NOTES
HERE ARE 10 IMPORTANT THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DEPRESSION 1. Depression is a pervasive and persistent sadness or low mood, causing feelings of low self-esteem, and loss of interest or pleasure in enjoyable activities. It is disabling to people. It impacts one’s sleeping, eating, work, school work, mood – everything. Anti-depressants alone help 33% of people, but 67% also require counseling with a professional therapist, counselor, or psychologist. About 20 million people suffer from some form of Depression … Read More
Child Development Workshop at Local Tehachapi School
I recently had a great time with about 25 parents and teachers at Valley Oaks Charter School in Tehachapi presenting information on Child Development, Teenage behaviors, and Strategies for Success as we raise the next generation. Thank you to Tom Karnes, and Margo Hayes, for allowing me to help out and present at the VOCS “Winter Camp” for parents. The topics that I covered were: Developmental Stages Adolescent Brain Growth and Social Development Tips for Parents National Longitudinal Study of … Read More
Improve Your Child’s Sleep, Focus, Concentration with This Digital Fast
Sometimes in order to get healthy we need to fast. Fasting can include foods, or a number of other things that we like. In the section to follow I am going to suggest that part of getting our children and teenagers with ADHD healthy is going to require that they fast from their Digital world for a few weeks. For our children, teenagers, and young adults the digital world is almost as important to them as food and sleep. In … Read More
ADHD and Alternative Treatments : Do They Work?
When Laura’s son was diagnosed by their pediatrician with ADHD, she didn’t know what to do. As a nurse she was aware of both the benefits and the potential problems with medications – any medications – and she didn’t want her 8 year old son to have to take a stimulant medication like Ritalin for the next several years. So she called and asked for some advice. Nearly 10% of children and teenagers in the United States meet the diagnostic … Read More
10 Power Tools to Overcome Stress | Counseling Tehachapi
Stress at Work : Causes Customers, co-workers, and real life Can we do more with less and not break? When Stress Comes : What is Happening to Me? What is the “fight, flight, or freeze” response? Physical, emotional, and cognitive responses to stress, immediate and long-term Release of Adrenalin, Cortisol, and elevated Cholesterol Power Tools to Manage and Over-come Stress Seeking Peace : “All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.” Breathing and relaxation … Read More
Can ADHD Medications be Used for Eating Disorders? Tehachapi Counselor Questions
I have a new client coming in to my office for counseling in Tehachapi tomorrow. She called for an appointment because she said that she “was addicted to eating,” and this concerned her. I had met her at an event in Stallion Springs before, and in that brief conversation she had mentioned that she knew I was a counselor in Tehachapi for those with ADHD, and that she had always wondered if ADHD was a part of her life. So … Read More
ADHD and Making Good Decisions for Your Child
I just saw my 950th client who has ADHD. I’ve been counseling people with ADHD for a lot of years here in Tehachapi, and Bakersfield. Like so many others he is twelve years old, nice and friendly, but struggling at home and at school because paying attention and staying focused eludes him sometimes. He and his parents are looking for some way to improve his life – his grades, his impulsive behaviors, his relationships. ADHD is pretty common, and it’s … Read More
8 Barriers to Counseling Even When You Know You Need It : Reason #1
30% of all people could benefit from professional counseling today. There are 8 reasons main why they won’t come. The top 8 reasons are: The advice of friends and family members; The fear of being seen as either weak or crazy; The fear of the unknown – what actually takes place in a counseling session? The fear of having to actually express emotions; Concern that counseling won’t work, and will waste both money and time; Having been “burned” in the past … Read More
5 Great Reasons to Bring Your ADHD Child or Teen to Counseling
I recently wrote about this on the ADHD Information Library at http://newideas.net and I thought I’d bring the article over here to my personal site for counseling in Tehachapi. I sat in my car waiting for my son to get out of his drama class in Tehachapi, and I read an article about ADHD kids and the treatments that they receive, or don’t receive. The point of the article was that even though most kids diagnosed with ADHD will receive … Read More