Inspired Life Counseling - Group Private Practice

Happy December!!! 🎉🥳 For this month's resolution we want to help teach people how to love themselves unconditionally, and watch their relationships flourish as their self-esteem improves. Boundaries, healthy communication, apologies and repair, and aliveness are all impacted in positive ways when our sense of self becomes more positive. This positivity has a direct impact on the relationships around us.

How To Love Yourself Unconditionally Many of us struggle to love ourselves, especially when we screw up or make a mistake. You can learn to hold yourself warmly despite your imperfections in my ...

A nagging wife... Ugh, that term! There are two sides on this coin. How do you stop your wife from nagging? How can a partner hear a wife's heart when they're complaining about something that needs to change without labeling them as a nag? Dr. Cloud shares his wisdom on the topic in this video.

Learn how to identify complaints as cries for help instead of criticism | Dr. Henry Cloud Minor issues can become major problems if left unchecked in a marriage. Are you struggling with arguments that seem to have no resolution? Henry Cloud teache...

Our clinician, Marti Tourville, AMFT has a few tips on improving ones mental health. An at home how-to guide. :)

https://www.inspiredlifechico.com/how-to-healthy-mental-health.html

It's easy to beat ourselves up when we do something wrong. We screw up, we hurt others, we disappoint ourselves, and we have a tendency to repeat the same negative statements about our character or worth over and over. We pull ourselves down when we do this and virtually create an international situation to keep messing up.

How To Stop Judging and Start Loving Yourself Join my free training on How To Stop Judging and Start Loving: Fundamental Lessons in Self-Esteem on Wednesday, October 18, 2023, 12-1:30pm ET.Register for F...

We all fail. It's so scary to try because we have to face the critical voice inside us saying, "I knew you couldn't do it. I knew you were a..." (Insert character assassination statement). You end up telling yourself this failing is evidence of of the validity of that character assassination statement. We'd be afraid of failing, too! Dr. Henry Cloud has a few thoughts on how to get through this.

Learn how to fail well and use it as an opportunity to improve | Dr. Henry Cloud One of the greatest life lessons you can learn is how to fail well. Dr. Henry Cloud talks about how to lose well so that you aren’t stuck every time you fail...

Sometimes exciting and good things bring with them complex emotions. "Yeay! It's almost Thanksgiving and I can see my favorite cousins!" and also, "Dread! Thanksgiving means everyone is going to ask me why I haven't met their expectations for my life." In the one had is joy and in the other hand is dread. If we could just feel one emotion at a time then making decisions on if or how we show up would be a lot easier! Here's an article by our own associate therapist, Lauren Heinrich, AMFT.

Multiple Emotions all at Once! - Inspired Life Counseling By Lauren Heinrich, AMFT Change is a part of life. Sometimes it feels good, like getting a promotion. Sometimes it hurts, like having to end a relationship. We tend to categorize our transitions as “good” or “bad” and expect the emotions we feel to match. It can really be confusing if our fe...

It's important to identify "Am I doing this? Why?" and also "Is my partner doing this?" and then start to explore where to go with that realization next. Self-esteem, boundaries, growth, healing, all of these things can have a positive impact in what you're allowing in your world.

Safe people do these 3 things!

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Dr John Townsend is the co-author of the famous book, "Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No to Take Control of Your Life." He has a pdf on his website for anyone to view or download to help them determine what they need from a relationship. Boundaries are meant to keep the good in and the bad out, but it's easier to identify the good we want to keep in when we have sat and really thought about what that actually is. And sometimes we need a jumping off point.

Relational Nutrients (new layout) - Dr. John Townsend Relational Nutrients Welcome! I hope you will find benefit from using the relational nutrients in your conversations. Save to your smartphone or download and print for easy reference. – Dr. John Townsend Download 3 QUADRANT 1 BE PRESENT   ACCEPTANCE Connect without judgment. ATTUNEMENT Respond to...

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Thanksgiving 🦃 is right around the corner, and with it comes the potential of heated conversations and hurt feelings - ours & theirs! Terry Real's video on how to give an effective apology is RIGHT ON ✌️ He also gives us tools on how to bring up an issue that deserves an apology so the other person is more likely to hear it and own what they did wrong. Even if you don't think you need it, it might arm you for when others at the dinner table start bickering!

How To Make A Genuine Apology When you hurt someone or break their trust, a heartfelt apology can be the first step toward healing and rebuilding your relationship. However, simply saying...

The office has been getting a lot more calls for relationship counseling lately. There's something in the air. This article is poignant because it highlights what a partner can do to address things before they go too far, and helps you understand and look out for signs when one of the partners in the relationship might subconsciously be heading toward the door without even realizing it yet...

https://divorce.com/blog/walkaway-wife-syndrome/ #:~:text=Walkaway%20wife%20syndrome%20isn't,walk%20away%20at%20any%20moment.

5 Signs of Walkaway Wife Syndrome | Divorce.com If you suspect your wife may be experiencing walkaway wife syndrome, here’s everything you need to know about the situation.

Doing my due diligence at the Partnership Symposium to make sure our clients who are being forced to switch insurance providers have as smooth as possible experience - as much as we can have control over on our end! To my clients who I had to cancel so I can be here, thank you. A great many of our clients appreciate you, too. ♥️

Why would someone go to therapy for themselves when it's the marriage or couplehood that needs work? Why would they get individual counseling when the whole family needs it? This mom on Tik Tok describes her experience so beautifully!

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What is happening in the Gaza-Israel conflict is so scary. There are people in our community who are suffering in silence, and we want you to know we're here for anyone needing to process and talk. We are here to support you. We see what is happening and you don't have to walk through this time alone. ❤️

Our amazing office manager, Shelby Gregory,has been working hard to get us in-network with TriCare and Medicare so we can better serve some deserving people. ILC is owned by a Marriage and Family Therapist with an office of mostly pre-licensed therapists, it hasn't been a priority since both federal agencies don't allow services from anyone who isn't licensed, even if they've graduated with their master's degree and are "apprenticing" or "precepting" under her license.

But with four of them finishing their hours by the end of the calendar year so they can take their licensing exams it makes sense that the office can now support any demand that going in-network for TriCare (the military's insurance) and Medicare creates.

We are STILL negotiating and working with Medicare (they don't make it easy, that's for sure) so we can't help Medicare clients just yet. Currently, Medicare excludes Jessica Wilkerson, LMFT, the owner's, license from seeing clients. The law states that only LCSW clinicians can serve Medicare clients, but in 2024 the law changes and LMFTs will be able to apply and help as well. They are finally opening up and giving their patients more variety to be able to get help! With that being the case, we're able to apply to be an in-network member.

Up until now, we've been out-of-network with all PPO & HMO networks, but it breaks our hearts to turn away members and vets of the military. Therapists don't like broken hearts... so we fixed that issue! ❤

We are excited to announce that we are officially in-network with TriCare West! We are humbled by the opportunity to provide excellent support and care for our military members and vets. ❤️❤️❤️

Jessica Wilkerson from Inspired Life Counseling is representing Northern California at the EMDRIA conference in Washington DC this week. She's lucky to keep getting to know Roy Kiessling! Last summer, Roy and his team came to Chico to train about 30 therapists in EMDR.

Inspired Life Counseling's owner is in a training on utilizing EMDR with Spiritual Abuse. Whether a church has rejected or hurt someone; a family member used the Bible to condemn and judge someone as broken, wrong, or irredeemable; or it feels that someone's faith is shattered because of what has happened to them or someone else who they care about, people are hurting, and in deep pain and loss. This is a sacred space in one's heart where hope and grief live and which are especially impacted by trauma.

People often consider themselves spiritual even when they have no part in organized religion. Spiritual trauma and abuse is about the pain associated with a variety of experiences in the spiritual realm.

It is in Jessica's hope that she will be able to bring healing to her clients and education for the clinicians at ILC so we can go deeply with our clients to help them heal some of their deepest pain.

Many people have heard that EMDR is very helpful for healing trauma, anxiety, marriage stress, and more! But articles and explanations get so science-y that the beauty of it gets lost in translation. Here's a video that explains EMDR in a great way!

How EMDR works? Look at this animation (English)

Inspired Life's Business Development Manager, Aidan Ortega, is graduating with his BS in International Business & Logistics today. Our entire office is cheering him on and proud to have him as a part of our team.

Every therapist at Inspired Life has been trained by EMDRIA approved trainings. If EMDR is something you'd like to learn more about here's an article!

https://eyemovementdesensitizationandreprocessing.com/2023/01/09/after-effects-of-emdr/

We've been getting multiple calls a day, every day looking for sessions after work or on weekends. Instead of turning people away we want to help them better! We're currently hiring one full-time clinician and multiple part-time therapists. You can learn more at www.inspiredlifechico.com/careers

It's the last day of Part A for the Milton H Erickson Foundation hypnosis training. I can't wait to go out and play in the snow afterward! It's taking a lot of dedication to learning hypnosis not to let my inner child go play in the snow!!! - Jessica Wilkerson, LMFT