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Celebrating Over One Year of Experiential Process Group Therapy!

By aliahealycross | by aliahealycross

For the past 14 months I have been holding space in my home office, facilitating Group therapy. This is both a professional and personal accomplishment that I feel proud to share with current clients, prospective participants and others who would like to know: What is Experiential Process Group? Our Group has consisted of between 4-7 members who each commit to at least 12 consecutive Group sessions. About six months or so ago, we started calling…

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Soon-to-be-Divorcee Offering Couples’ Counseling

By aliahealycross | by aliahealycross

               I don’t have a lot of experience counseling couples. The majority of my background involves treatment of adult individuals, with some experience working with pre-teen children. Occasionally, I have worked with an individual who wanted to bring their partner into session in order to enhance their own therapeutic process. After one of these sessions went terribly wrong (think: new-to-me partner dominated the conversation and then had a full-blown panic attack/temper tantrum when I pointed…

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The Beauty of Group Therapy

By aliahealycross | by aliahealycross

It’s been a little while since I’ve written in this blog. Dear Readers, I haven’t forgotten you nor have I forgotten how much I enjoy this new hobby! I’ve been busy. When I say busy, I mean bought my first house, got my private practice up and running and have continued my work at the Outpatient Clinic. I thought that it would be easiest to get back into the writing groove again by writing about…

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Red Flags of Domestic Violence & Green Flags of Healthy Intimate Partner Relationships

By aliahealycross | by aliahealycross

Love shouldn’t hurt. It shouldn’t try to control your actions and behaviors by exerting power over you. The same is true for our partners. Unfortunately, Domestic Violence (DV) is prevalent in the United States. 1 in 4 American women and 1 in 5 American men will be in a Domestic Violence relationship, or have experienced DV in some form, in their lives. But people aren’t walking statistics. They come to therapy to try to process…

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