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MS Counseling Psychology, MA Counseling Ministry, California Baptist University

Depression often causes people to feel sad, empty, or hopeless, and can cause a lack of interest in life. It can also affect a person's thinking patterns and physical health.

Depression

Anxiety can mean nervousness, worry, or self-doubt. Anxiety disorder is a mental health disorder that entails excessive, repeated bouts of worry, anxiety, and/or fear.

Anxiety

ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) causes a hard time focusing attention and controlling restless or impulsive behavior. People with ADHD might have emotional outbursts, be forgetful, and/or find it difficult to stay organized.

ADHD

Children that experience parents and/or guardians that are avoidant, ambivalent, or resistant from an early age, may develop attachment issues. This can manifest as difficulty forming or maintaining friendships, romantic relationships and empathetic bonds throughout life, as well as other issues.

Attachment issues

Caring for a friend or family member (paid or unpaid) includes emotional support, housework, help with finances, medication management, and shopping. Can be stressful, making caregivers more vulnerable to things like anxiety, isolation, and fatigue.

Caregiver stress & support

Persisting health conditions causing significant barriers to daily functioning as well as discrepancies in how society responds to disabilities. Can impact people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and lead to feelings of isolation, uncertainty, and helplessness.

Chronic illness

Separation and divorce can trigger a range of mental health challenges, even when the split is mutually agreed upon. Prolonged challenges can lead to stress, anxiety, depression and more.

Divorce & separation

Transgender or gender non-confirming people experience the same mental health issues as anyone else. For some, however, social stigma, discrimination, oppression and the effort of understanding one’s authentic self can lead to anxiety or depression.

Gender identity & transgender health

Process of defining one’s own beliefs and sense of self. Evolves over time and can become a source of stress and pain, especially if the concept of self goes against social, cultural, or familial norms.

Identity development

A diverse range of sexual orientations and gender identities present unique challenges in relation to coming out to family members, confusion with identity, stigma, discrimination, and oppression.

LGBTQIA related issues

Panic attacks are acute conditions in which one experiences an intense bout of anxiety out of seemingly nowhere. This oftentimes stems from a perceived rather than actual threat. Symptoms may include heart palpitations, sweating, trembling, and shortness of breath. Panic disorder involves regular frequency of panic attacks (two or more) with a fear of experiencing more in the future.

Panic attacks & panic disorder

Parenting issues involve those associated with the child-rearing process. These may include safety, discipline, nutrition, finances, childcare, school, household rules, chores, daily routines, social activities, and relationships with extended family members. Because child-rearing practices vary by culture, cultural norms must be considered.

Parenting issues

Personality disorders entail a maladaptive way of behaving, feeling, and thinking that deviate from societal and cultural norms. They may lead to personal distress, interpersonal issues, harmful behaviors, and legal issues. Personality disorders include paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. They are treatable but not curable.

Personality disorders

Though not a formally recognized disorder in the DSM-5, sex addiction is characterized as an intimacy disorder in which an individual engages in a compulsive pattern of repetitive behavior directed toward sexual gratification that may lead to negative role, social, safety, or legal consequences. It is a progressive and pervasive condition in which one continues to chronically engage in sexual behavior despite the consequences.

Sex Addiction

Sexual health and dysfunction go well beyond the physical but into the cognitive, social and spiritual/religious domains of our being. Being sexually healthy entails feeling comfortable with one’s sexuality. This includes identity, orientation, performance, self-esteem, choice of partner(s), et cetera. It also includes congruence between one’s actions and personal values. Dysfunction may occur when one struggles with any aspect of sexuality and/or may entail a physical complication.

Sexual health & dysfunction

Step-family or blended family issues issues may include overcoming loss from a previous family situation, establishing a familial bond, setting boundaries, enforcing new rules, adjusting to relocation, learning to communicate in healthy fashion, finances, and household roles.

Step-family/Blended Family Issues

Common issues may include self-doubt, feeling a lack of support, financial concerns, medical concerns, housing concerns, significant lifestyle change, reduced sleep, increased stress, anxiety, and depression.

Transition to new parenthood

Veterans’ issues involve any issues associated with veterans and/or their family members (military families). Veterans oftentimes present with issues that are unique to the human experience. PTSD, suicide, and substance use prevalence are high with this population as a result of immense stress and trauma. Other issues may include adjustment to civilian life, re-integrating with family, medical care, mental health treatment, employment, and finances.

Veterans' issues

Issues related to infidelity, typically within a relationship. Can include infidelity by the person seeking therapy or a partner. Can include discussion of issues related to trust, communication, and questions related to why it occurred/is occurring and processing the events.

Infidelity

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Mindfulness Practices

Form of psychological counseling based on rebuilding trust and expressing dysfunctional emotion. Explores the connection between a person’s early attachment with primary caregivers and their ability to develop healthy relationships as an adult.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Short-term form of therapy focused on adult relationships. Explores patterns to create more secure bonds, rebuild trust, and reduce stress, helping people understand their emotions and communicate their needs in relation to each other.

Emotionally Focused Therapy

Form of therapy focused on self-awareness, self-determination, rational choice, and a continuous search for meaning. Operates under the belief that anxiety is natural and that the exploration of personal experiences can lead to psychological well-being.

Existential Therapy

Form of psychotherapy employed to help individual family members resolve problems within the context of the entire family. Used to help them understand patterns of interaction and develop new ways of engaging with each other.

Family Systems Therapy

Approach to psychotherapy helping people focus on the present rather than their perception of the past. Encourages the re-experiencing of emotions, sometimes through re-enactment. Goal is for clients to become more self-aware.

Gestalt Therapy

Form of counseling that helps people resolve ambivalence and insecurity into the motivation to meet specific goals like sobriety. Utilizes collaborative conversation, recognizing how difficult change can be while fostering an atmosphere of acceptance.

Motivational Interviewing

Approach that views people as objective experts on their own experiences, giving them the distance to make meaning out of their life. Therapist leads and empowers them to adjust and balance thought patterns and behaviors.

Narrative Therapy

Focuses on improving current circumstances by making better choices, avoiding discussion of the past. Based on belief that people can’t control how they feel, but only how they think and act.

Reality Therapy

Pastoral Counseling is a unique form of psychotherapy that has the option of using spiritual resources as well as psychological understanding for healing and growth

Pastoral & Faith Based Counseling

An approach to therapeutic work well-versed in areas specific to the neurodiverse community, with the understanding that autism, ADHD, dyslexia, Tourette’s syndrome, OCD, dyspraxia, and other related conditions are not problems to be cured or solved, but individual neurotypes with unique strengths, needs, and challenges.

Neurodiversity-Affirming

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Grief is a reaction to an emotionally significant loss and often comes with symptoms of depression or anxiety. These symptoms can remain intense and last for a long time after a loss, making it difficult to move forward with a healthy lifestyle.

Loss/Grief

Many medical professionals have extremely difficult jobs. When the result of one’s work is a matter of life or death, stress is typical. Medical professionals’ mental health is oftentimes impacted by experiencing vicarious trauma, working long hours, feeling underpaid or unappreciated, and believing that the well-being of others is more important than their own. This may lead toward distress, compromised performance, resentment, poor mental and/or physical health, and burnout.

Medical professionals' mental health

Spirituality and religion, to a great extent, shape our moral principles, beliefs, and values. They have a role in shaping our behavior and in our relationships. Issues may include questioning one’s faith, loss of faith, struggling to find meaning, and living a life incongruent with one’s belief.

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