Dr. Barbara Cunningham offers insightful counseling to survivors of homicide, specializing in helping sibling survivors move through their grief and their loss (read about her model of practice at http://www.Cunninghamtherapy.com).
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San Diego Relationship Counseling: Grief and Complicated Grief in Sibling Survivors of Homicide
Posted in Affordable Psychotherapy, Affordable Psychotherapy San Diego, Challenge Model, counseling, Counseling San Diego, couples counseling, Couples Counseling San Diego, marriage counseling, Marriage Counseling San Diego, psychotherapy San Diego, relationship counseling, resilience, Uncategorized, Wolin & Wolin, tagged affordable relationship counseling, bereavement, counseling, grief, grief and loss, Marriage Counseling, psychotherapy, sibling loss, survivors of violent loss on March 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Lessons to Our Daughters: What is Demi Moore Teaching Hers?
Posted in Affair, Affordable Psychotherapy, Affordable Psychotherapy San Diego, counseling, Counseling San Diego, couples counseling, Couples Counseling San Diego, Demi Moore, Divorce, Drug Addicition, Drugs, Eating Disorders, marriage counseling, Marriage Counseling San Diego, psychotherapy San Diego, relationship counseling, Relationship Counseling San Diego, Relationship Tips, resilience, Uncategorized, Wolin & Wolin, tagged addiction counseling san diego, Affordable Relationship Counseling San Diego, counseling, counseling san diego, Couples Counseling, couples counseling san diego, couples counseling sliding fee scale, Dr. MFT, LGBT, Marriage Counseling, marriage counseling san diego, Premarital Counseling San Diego, psychotherapy San Diego, Relationship Counseling, relationship counseling san diego on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In my private practice in San Diego, I work to provide quality services for marriage counseIing, relationship counseling, and individual psychotherapy. Oftentimes, I listen to young girls and women of all ages obsess about their weight, their appearance and their disappearing youth. I try to provide a safe holding environment as they work to relieve themselves of the social pressures to be the prettiest, the skinniest, and the sexiest version of themselves they can create. I coach them to make their life purpose revolve around less superficial and dangerous values.
As today came to a close, I had a moment to reflect upon society’s demands to value appearance over substance.
Affordable Relationship Counseling: Survivor or Thriver?
Posted in Adult Children of Alcoholics, Alcoholism, Challenge Model, counseling, Counseling San Diego, couples counseling, Couples Counseling San Diego, Damage Model, marriage counseling, Marriage Counseling San Diego, psychotherapy San Diego, relationship counseling, Relationship Counseling San Diego, Relationship Tips, resilience, Uncategorized, Wolin & Wolin, tagged addiction counseling san diego, Affordable Relationship Counseling San Diego, alcoholism counseling san diego, counseling, counseling san diego, Couples Counseling, couples counseling san diego, couples counseling sliding fee scale, couples therapist, couples therapy, Dr. MFT, Marriage Counseling, marriage counseling san diego, relationship counseling san diego, Relationship Counselor San Diego on August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
At Affordable Relationship Counseling in San Diego, CA, Dr. Barbara Cunningham offers a resiliency or strength-based approach to counseling, whether she is treating individuals, couples, and marital partners. She views challenges as a natural and an expected part of what it means to live a life. When we expect life to be nothing but rainbows, smooth seas, and laughter, we set ourselves up for bitter disappointment. Life is a fabric, a woven tapestry of good with bad, difficult with easy, happy with sad, sickness and health. Having realistic expectations going in to life transitions, such as marriage, parenting, and career changes, is part of the ability to function well. Some people become so paralyzed by change, transitions, and challenges that they never move forward–they are frozen in whatever place they were emotionally before the onset of the change, transition, or challenge. Others merely “get through it.” And then there are those who seem to thrive and prosper as they sail from navigating stormy sea after stormy sea. Who are these thrivers and how did they get that way? Differences in the way one thinks about life and the way one lives in one’s relationships can make one’s life look very different. How we think about things affects how things come out in many cases.
So what about those people who thrive as opposed to merely surviving through their life challenges? Wolin and Wolin (1993) discuss such resilient people in their book entitled THE RESILIENT SELF: HOW SURVIVORS OF TROUBLED FAMILIES RISE ABOUT ADVERSITY.
