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Counseling and Coaching - A Time to Heal
“A Time to Heal” based in Sarasota, Florida is a place to
explore new possibilities through education and therapy to confront
old pain, heal, grow, and recover. We provide a unique counseling
service for people who want to make changes in their life and their
relationships.
Philosophy
We believe God desires that we live an abundant life able to
overcome life’s challenges. To the degree that we live in the past
because of hurts, wounds, strained relationships and shame or live
in the future with anxiety and fears, we cannot live abundantly. “A
Time to Heal” is a safe place where you can learn to move forward on
the road to life, health, and vitality as you heal from brokenness.
Our Mission…
to provide effective, professional counseling and coaching. With
emphasis on marriages, we help couples and individuals let go of the
past, live in the present and embrace the future.
History
“A Time to Heal” started presenting workshops in November 2004. Our
first workshop was SERENITY IN THE SUN featuring John Bradshaw, who
presented, Homecoming-Reclaiming, Championing, and Healing Your
Wounded Inner Child.
In 2006, “Together Forever” Workshops was formed to focus on
Relationship Intimacy--How to Discover, Refresh, Renew, Restore,
Maintain, and Strengthen Intimacy in your Marriage/Coupleship. What became very obvious over those years was:
- Couples were entering therapy at younger ages.
- Couples were seeking help earlier in their relationships.
- The issues bringing them into therapy were more intense than
in prior generations.
- Assignments given to couples weren't being completed.
- Once involved in treatment, often he would come alone, or
she would come alone--when they were both scheduled to come
together. There was zero "US-NESS".
What was strikingly different now is that couples used to wait
until the pain was unbearable to seek help because money was an
issue. Now, money isn't the issue -- TIME is the issue.
The methods we were using in therapy weren't working as well as they
previously did. We would listen to couples’ complaints and form
goals. We would teach three to five tools and then proceed to heal
the wounds from past relationships and marriages or their
childhoods. Generally, in the old model, a couple would have
completed this process in six to nine months, those couples were
committed and the time needed was acceptable. Our new generation of
clients did not want to take the slow process described above.
We now offer two day marriage and relationship intensives
designed to focus on INTIMACY within a small group setting of no
more than five couples. Here we give various tools to couples in one
weekend to produce HOPE with couples willing to clear out the
baggage of past wounds from previous relationships and their
childhoods. We help you navigate your journey. The entire process
needs to be explored and healed before you can truly be happy, first
with yourself and then with a mate.
Some of the issues we address are:
- Creating intimacy and trust.
- Overcoming codependency.
- Self-esteem and healthy boundaries.
- Loving without addiction.
- Depression, anxiety, and stress.
- Grief, loss, and loneliness.
- Resolving conflicts.
- Sexual difficulties.
- Childhood wounds related to alcoholism, incest and other
traumas.
- Effective communication and anger release.
- The ability to express emotion HEALTHLY.
- Money and power struggles.
- Exploring purpose, meaning, and spiritual growth.
- Clarifying commitments.
- Freeing creativity, spontaneity and joy.
- Eliminating harmful criticism and teaching healthy
criticism.
Over the last 20 years, we have come increasingly out of the
closet of denial: therapists and clients alike are more willing and
likely to stop idealizing family of origin relationships. People are
more able and willing to see -- and feel the pain involved in -- the
various forms of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse that is so
staggeringly prevalent in our society (Changes in the World of
Therapy, Jason Saffer) |
