Silver Lining Counseling & Mediation, LLC

This week, I met with a Dad who described his kids as “feral!” Can you relate?? Having trouble getting through to your kids? This book is a must-read!

•Cope with your child’s negative feelings, such as frustration, anger, and disappointment
•Express your strong feelings without being hurtful
•Engage your child’s willing cooperation
•Set firm limits and maintain goodwill
•Use alternatives to punishment that promote self-discipline
•Understand the difference between helpful and unhelpful praise
•Resolve family conflicts peacefully

Domestic Violence against men is grossly underreported.

Help for Men Who are Being Abused

Help for Men Who are Being Abused - HelpGuide.org Men are abused by their partners a lot more often than you may think. Learn how to identify the signs and get the help you need to escape an abusive relationship.

A fantastic collection of experts' wisdom from The Family Law Section of the Virginia Bar Association.

Spare the Child from Virginia State Bar on Vimeo

Is your relationship healthy? Take this short quiz to find out!

Relationship Satisfaction Test / Quiz Relationships are deep and dynamic. This test can capture feelings about your relationship health as it stands today. We hope the information here will help bring you closer to the goals you have for your relationship—and closer to your partner.

Feeling angry? We can help! Anger is not inherently bad. It can be a protective factor and give you the energy you need to make necessary changes in your life. Silver Lining offers anger assessments and anger management programs in 1:1 format for both women and men. Contact us at (502) 709-9050 or [email protected]

Are you co-parenting with a narcissist?
Here’s a worthwhile read from Psychology Today:

Co-Parenting With a Narcissist A narcissist can manipulate you into believing you are the problem. It is painful, especially when kids are involved. Here are five tips to help.

This is a pretty good article about how and when to introduce your kids to a new partner:

How and When to Introduce Your New Partner to Your Kids Bringing a new partner into your family is risky if kids aren't ready or the new love isn't rock solid. Here are tips for when and how to do it so that your family will blossom.

Want to become a better father? We can help! We offer the Nurturing Father’s Program in 1:1 format and will teach you:
*The secrets for creating safe, loving, stable, and nurtured families.
*Positive discipline tools taught through a uniquely father-friendly method for successful child behavior management.
*Effective family communication techniques to strengthen the father-child and father-mother relationships.
*How to stop fighting and arguing by using proven-effective strategies for conflict resolution and problem solving.
*How to achieve cooperation and teamwork in family life.

The mental health of dads matters! Here’s a great article from a few years back about why we need to include fathers in conversations about family wellbeing.

The Mental Health of Dads Matters Fathers struggle and suffer with mental health difficulties at about the same rate as mothers, but we are in the dark ages when it comes to supporting their emotional wellbeing.

Research shows that LGBTQ young adults who report high levels of family acceptance also report higher levels of self-esteem, social support, and general health compared to their LGBTQ peers who report low levels of family acceptance. If you are a parent or caregiver to an LGBTQ+ youth or young adult, we can help you develop the skills you need to support them. Contact us at (502) 709-9050 to schedule an appointment.

Patrick Young, LPCC is now accepting new clients (16+) at our Georgetown, KY location. To schedule an appointment,
contact Patrick at (502) 709-7407 or [email protected].

We are thrilled to welcome Patrick Young to our team! To schedule an appointment call/text Patrick at (502) 709-7407 or email [email protected].

A note from Patrick:
I am a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) with over a decade of experience in counseling individuals on their healing journey. I graduated from the University of Kentucky in 2012 with a Master's degree in Rehabilitation Counseling and have worked in many different settings including inpatient, residential, and outpatient treatment.

With a specialization in substance use and co-occurring disorders, I've had the privilege of assisting countless individuals in their goals of gaining and maintaining sobriety. In addition to my specialty in substance use, I work closely with the LGBTQIA+ community, offering a safe and affirming space for exploration and growth. I also specialize in eating disorders, ADD/ADHD, young adult life transitions, and navigating the complexities of the grieving process.
My approach pulls from many different areas, but it is fully collaborative, and I work together with each of my clients to develop a personal plan to address and cope with the concerns that bring them to therapy.

Our new office is open in Fort Myers, FL and we are happily accepting new clients.

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Great article on Parental Alienation!

The Role of Anxiety in Parental Alienation In divorce, some children unconsciously absorb one parent’s intense anxiety.

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Try not to get caught up in the terminology. Open your mind to the concepts.

A good reminder for when your child is feeling stressed or anxious... ❤️

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This Free Poster suggests 10 different tips to help kids make and keep friends! Let me know if you'd like the link to get the PDF and I'll DM/PM it to you 💜

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/healing-from-addiction/202303/long-term-cannabis-use-cognition-and-the-hippocampus?mibextid=unz460

Why executive function is needed in the classroom for higher learning development... https://ilslearningcorner.com/2016-07-8-executive-functioning-skills-child-cant-complete-tasks-stay-organized-school/

It’s not easy to be a cycle breaker.

You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging - Brené Brown

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An exert from Divorce: Using Psychologists’ Skills for Transformation and Conflict Reduction by Jeffrey Zimmerman

"The civil wars of adversarial divorce leave behind the wounded. After relationships fail and the legal process is complete, the court typically steps away. Parents often say the process has battered them. They may have spent years and much of their savings bitterly fighting with one another, sharing, and perhaps exaggerating, each other’s faults on the record in the public forum of the courthouse. Consequently, children often are left with parents who are hateful
to one another and essentially unable to work together (i.e., communicate and make pertinent parenting decisions). In essence, in order to divorce, parents are expected to do vigorous battle in an adversarial system and then work together to do the most important and difficult job of their lives–raise children."

"Court orders finalizing the divorce usually require parental cooperation and collaboration. They are based presumably on the expectation that parents can recover from the battle so they
will be able to communicate and work together. It seems though that this is a set-up for failure because in many respects, we are asking the impossible of parents: to be vigorous adversaries
and then coparent effectively. We would not expect two pilots in a bitter lawsuit to copilot our aircraft safely. We would not expect two surgeons who were in a contentious “divorce” in their practice to assist one another in the operating room. Yet we expect parents to work together, in essence, as the board of directors” of the family to help their children both cope with the divorce and deal with the other challenges they face."

Beautifully written statement by an Ohio attorney about the barbarism of divorce fighting.