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Adult Therapy
Therapy may be an effective way to learn more about healthy and unhealthy relationships. Identify what type of environments nurture your development as a more whole person. Therapy may help you identify patterns in yourself and those around you. It is time well spent with an experienced professional with whom you can learn new skills, contemplate ideas, and give yourself a sacred space in which to grow.

Individual Therapy is helpful for solving problems, encouraging self-development and supporting individuals in discovering their inner resources, building self-esteem and developing new healthy patterns and solutions to life's challenges. Individual Therapy can help a person overcome such barriers as :

  • Low Self Esteem
  • Intense Anger or Rage
  • Unsatisfying relationships that make you feel unhappy, frustrated and not understood
  • Intense Sadness, crying, lethargic, loss of interest in pleasurable activities
  • Obsessing or ruminating over an idea or someone
  • Feeling anxious, uncomfortable and out of control
  • Feeling worried or uncomfortable about social situations
  • Trauma that makes you feel fearfulness, worried, anxious and potentially paranoid
Take the first step and enter therapy to explore your potential and gain understanding of your self and others.

Career Counseling
Have your ever felt like you woke up one morning, looked in the mirror and wondered who you were? Ever feel like you keep working longer days, juggling more assignments without the recognition and income you deserve? Ever feel like you hate your job and want to do something else but are trapped by financial obligations? Or maybe you feel like you are spinning your wheels trying to make it all work for your family, your clients, your boss and everyone but you. Are you having difficulty communicating with others, managing stress and anger on the job, or advocating for yourself in advancing in your career. Some days you may just want to throw in the towel and run away. Perhaps it is time to step out and get support in order to create a work environment and career that feels exciting and rewarding I am a certified Myers Briggs Type Indicator MBTI Instructor with 10 years experience in career testing and coaching. The Myers Briggs Type Indicator is one of the oldest and most successful instruments in identifying peoples STRENGHTS. It will identify up to 20 careers that would be most suited for you while remaining your natural self. Looking for that career where you go to work and you feel fulfilled and you say, “Wow, that day just flew by”, that is what it feels like to be in a career that matches your personality type. Stop being miserable in your current job and find the right job that fits you and your personality! It is time you felt good about going to Work!

Myers Briggs Type Indicator
“The oldest and most accurate personality exam to exist.”

  • Carl Jung, a Swiss Psychiatrists, started studying type in 1875. He created a theory stating that we are “hard wired” from birth. We contain innate patterns of behavior.
  • The Instrument was created to understand the difference between normal healthy people , not used to study severe pathology
  • 1917 Katherine Briggs started observing type. She and her daughter, Isabel Myers added to the theory during WWII.
4 Dichotomies/Preferences
  • Extraversion or Introversion
  • Intuition or Sensing
  • Thinking or Feeling
  • Judging or Perceiving

Domestic Violence
Domestic violence and emotional abuse are behaviors used by one person in a relationship to control the other. Partners may be married or not married; heterosexual, gay, or lesbian; living together, separated or dating. It can happen gradually and DENIAL is often a common defense mechanism associated wth Domesic Violence. Denial occurs because there is often shame and guilt that pairs the reality of the unhealthy relationship. People often suffer in silence while the physical, verbal,emotional and/or sexual battering continues. When you experience domestic violence, it can feel like not matter what you do,say, think, or feel, “you are wrong”. Many women die each year from Domestic Violence and one out of every four visits to the emergency room are related to domestic violence.

Just a few examples of Domestic Violence are:

  • name-calling or putdowns
  • keeping a partner from contacting their family or friends
  • withholding money
  • stopping a partner from getting or keeping a job
  • actual or threatened physical harm
  • sexual assault
  • stalking
  • intimidation
Domestic Violence NEGATIVELY IMPACTS CHILDREN through anxiety problems such as nightmares, flashbacks, startled responses, stomach problems and difficulty trusting adults. It also can be known to cause ADHD, Depression and problems in school. If you are feeling trapped, frustrated, angry, or stuck in an abusive relationship, Please REACH OUT NOW!! THERE IS HOPE AND THERE IS HELP.

Adult Depression /Anxiety Therapy & Counseling
Struggling with anxiety, depression, and grief can rob us of our self-esteem, power, effectiveness and joy. It often negatively impacts our relationship with self and others.

DEPRESSION:

  • feeling hopeless, helpless and life’s losing meaning and purpose
  • having trouble sleeping or wanting to sleep all the time
  • experiencing low self esteem
  • having difficulty concentrating or making decisions
  • experiencing low energy or fatigue
  • lost interest in activities that use to be enjoyable to you
YOU ARE EXPERIENCING DEPRESSION AND IT IS A PROBLEM THAT IS FOUND IN 1 OUT OF 4 AMERICANS. YOU ARE NOT ALONE AND THERE IS HELP. .

ANXIETY

  • worried all of the time
  • find yourself more irritable with yourself and others
  • feeling restless, keyed up or on edge
  • difficulty falling or staying asleep
  • muscle tension
  • heart palpitations /shortness of breath
  • headaches, sweating/chills, nausea or dizziness
ANXIETY IS BEOMCONG ONE OF THE FASTEST GROWING DIAGNOSIS, WHETHER IT BE THE PACE OF OUR SOCIETY, A CHANGE IN YOUR BRAIN CHEMISTRY OR YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED A LIFE CHANGING EVENT, YOU MAY GAIN CONTROL OF YOUR ANXIETY THROUGH THERAPY

Greif And Loss Therapy
Losing someone or something you love is very painful — and it’s something that almost everyone will experience at some point in their lives. Loss that goes unacknowledged or unattended can result in disability. But grief that is expressed and experienced has a potential for healing that eventually can strengthen and enrich life. There is no right or wrong way to grieve — but there are ways to make your grieving more complete and more positive. Kübler-Ross proposed these stages of grief:
  • Denial: “This can’t be happening to me.”
  • Anger: “Why is this happening? Who is to blame?”
  • Bargaining: “Make this not happen, and in return I will ____.”
  • Depression: “I’m too sad to do anything.”
  • Acceptance: “I’m at peace with what is going to happen/has happened.”
NOT EVERYOONE RESPONDS TO GRIEF THE SAME WAY, GRIEF IS UNIQUE TO EACH INDIVIDUAL DEPENDENT UPON PAST EXPERIENCES OF LOSS AS WELL AS CULTURAL BACKGROUND AND BELIEFS.

THERAPY CAN HELP EVALAUTE AND PROCESS

  • YOUR RELATIONSHIOP TO THAT PERSON, EXPERIENCE OR IDEA
  • HOW THE LOSS OCCURRED
  • YOUR COPING SKILLS AND BELIEFS ABOUT THE LOSS
  • LIFE EXPERIENCES AROUND THE SUBJECT OF LOSS
  • SUPPORT
TO LOSE SOMETHING OR SOMEONE IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT AND LEARNING TO COPE AND UTILIZING SUPPORT IS OFTEN NECESSARY.

THERAPY IS A SAFE PLACE TO EXPLORE YOUR EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL, COGNITIVE, BEHAVIORAL, SOCIAL, AND PHILSOPHICAL RESPONSE TO A LOSS.

NORMAL LOSSES
child becoming an adult
friend moving away
child leaving home/ empty nest syndrome
loss of an elderly person
loss of an old pet
belief
faith
ABNORMAL LOSSES
suicide
tragic or unexpected death of a family member, friend
early loss of a pet
health changes or handicaps at a younger age




Mark Brewer, MFT  1207 Carlsbad Village Drive, Suite O, Carlsbad, CA 92008   Phone: 760-500-3325