Navigating the complexities of relationship & family dynamics requires patience, understanding, and expert insights that are designed to empower you with the knowledge & skills to foster healthy relationships and create a harmonious family environment.
IT’S TIME TO GET HELP…..!
Finding Balance in Your Life...!
Finding Balance in Your Life...!
Relationships 101 & Emotional Baggage:
The vast majority of frustrations in life have to do with relationships. Whether it’s friends, family, spouse / partner, or co-workers, the problems come down to our emotional baggage. And the baggage impacts the internal relationship with ourselves - the most important relationship!!!
What programming did you receive in childhood witnessing the family dynamics? My clients find that the solutions require de-bugging and re-writing the program they absorbed at home, at school, in the neighborhood.
Most conflict in life come from unmet needs, boundary violations or something with our expectations. Negative feelings triggered by the actions or inaction of others remind us of our childhood pains and we react.
HURT PEOPLE HURT PEOPLE…..
I love to help clients figure out the pieces of their puzzles and then how to resolve & rearrange those pieces using new tools and perspectives.
Sometimes it’s learning how to gather the shattered pieces to glue back together.
Sometimes it’s about learning to express & release the pent up hurts & pains in a way that doesn’t hurt self or others. This requires developing inner peace!
It always comes down to developing healthy communication and conflict resolution skills. Even if you grew up in a healthy, happy home, humans seem to struggle with communicating their needs and feelings without hurting others.
We learn how to react in various ways to protect ourselves from pain in childhood. Clients discover that those methods typically sabotage our goals and relationships.
LET’S FIGURE IT OUT TOGETHER!
Let me show you how this is Common Sense made Obvious.
About
Your Therapist
Duane has over 35 years of experience in human psychology and behavior. His marriage also began in late 1989 and continues. You can learn from the lives of thousands of clients he’s helped……and even from his own life experiences and marriage lessons learned along the way.
IT’S ALL ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS !!!
Born in 1965, Duane moved often as a kid, which provided plenty of challenges and adventures. It required developing new friendships, and losing them too, especially before the internet came around.
We are social creatures and need to feel valued, loved, needed, and important. The relationships of life sometimes caused pains that we cannot understand. It’s this emotional baggage we need to understand so that we can more consciously navigate our lives and relationships.
Duane has experience working with:
Adults & Teens
Private - Voluntary
Individuals & Couples
Intellectual disabilities
Chronic & enduring mental health issues
Court-Ordered - family violence & anger management