Group Sessions Work!
- Co-Parenting Classes: New Monday classes begin May 14, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
- Parenting Classes: New parenting class for 1-4 year olds begins May 9th, 5:30-6:30 pm. Parenting class for children ages 5-12 begins June 6th 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Finding Hope When Life Feels Out of Control
When emotions or relationships become unmanageable, the result may be sleepless nights, constant anxiety, guilt, worry or fear, hopelessness and angry outbursts. Or you may feel simply numb and detached, as if the world outside were a million miles away.
But please know that none of these feelings is permanent. They are not a life sentence. And you don’t have to go through this alone.
How Are You Coping?
If you’re managing problems in ways that offer some relief in the short term, but also bring shame, new troubles, and renewed pain, consider an alternative.
Counseling That Can Change Your Life
Research shows that talking and working with a caring, ethical and trained counseling professional can help. The marriage and family therapists and interns at Main Street Counseling Group are qualified to help if you’re suffering from the symptoms of emotional difficulties, trauma, abuse, and damaged relationships in families and couples.
We use proven methods of therapy to affect the thoughts, feelings and behaviors that may now seem automatic to you. Our process is respectful, creative and honors cultural diversity.
Positive Change Worth the Effort
The benefits from working together can be remarkable:
- Improved physical health, energy and optimism
- Greater calm, confidence and focus at work, school and home
- Renewed feelings of intimacy and safety with loved ones
- More respect for yourself and others
- Curbing or ceasing destructive habits and addictions
- More effective communication and relationship skills
Call Us Today
Please call us at (805) 648-2805, or contact us to learn more about how we can work together to help you generate stability and success in your life and important relationships.
Focus on Growth…
The Journey Back From Domestic Violence
First you struggled to find safety. Yet have you found peace of mind?Guilt, anger, sadness, anxiety and stress often show up in the aftermath of abuse. For example, do you:
- Feel guilty or “selfish”, at times perhaps not even knowing why?
- Blame yourself for any part of the abuse you endured, or for staying in an abusive relationship?
- No longer feel satisfaction or pleasure in your favorite activities or with family and friends?
- Find that anger or stress regularly interfere with relationships, sleep, work or taking care of children?
- Have nightmares, flashbacks, or startle easily?
- Often or easily feel overwhelmed and stuck?
"Unlearning" the Trauma of Abuse
The feelings and behaviors listed above often come after someone has gone through a physically and/or emotionally abusive relationship. In some ways they are like habits that are learned.Many of them, such as fearfulness, are taught by the person who perpetrated the abuse, as a way to control you. And some behaviors were learned as a way to cope with the abuse itself, to make sense of and survive what felt like an unreal and unbearable situation.
Yet however these habits showed up, they can be unlearned. Click here to read more about how this process works and what benefits you can expect.
Please note: these habits can't be unlearned if you are still living with abuse. If that's the case, please stop here and read this page.