CONSCIOUS LIVING
Counseling & Education Center
Experienced, Respectful Counseling
The Conscious Living Counseling Center provides experienced and respectful counseling services
for individuals and couples.
Please explore the site and learn more about Individual and Marriage/Couples counseling services. You are welcome to call and
discuss your situation.
Counseling Focus Areas
Depression or Chronic Apathy
There are different causes of depression. Treatment can depend on medical history, personal history, nutrition, activity level and coping patterns. It is important to take a comprehensive approach to treating depression.
There is not one cure for resolving the symptoms of depression. Treatment should address the various reasons for depression and include a personalized care plan.
Anxiety and/or Panic
Anxiousness is a natural, healthy emotion; however, sometimes anxious feelings become too intense and frequent. When excessive feelings of anxiety are present, it becomes very difficult to feel like yourself.
Anxiety disorders are very common and treatable. Common types include: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder.
Couples & Marriage Counseling
There is a significant correlation between healthy relationships and mental health. Spending time and energy on learning relationship skills and nurturing relationships is important for everyone.
Unhealthy relationship patterns tend to follow individuals from relationship to relationship. Learn how to shed these patterns and replace them with healthier relationship skills.
Identity Work & Purpose
Counseling can help you be less distracted by the stories other people have told you about yourself. Many people live with the belief that they are not enough. Identity work includes life planning, understanding and defining what's important to you, and defining your place in the world. Identity work can also include exploring issues around sexual orientation, gender identity, social status, and ethnicity.
Chronic Pain & Medical Conditions
Living with chronic illness or a medical condition presents many unique challenges. There is no doubt that medical science benefits those living with illness/pain, but there are limits to only focusing on the body.
Counseling for those living with a chronic condition is not about treating psychological illness, but helping people live with a very difficult situation and medical condition. It is still possible to live a good life even though it may be a difficult life.
Trauma
It is impossible to experience some events and not be deeply impacted. Sometimes individuals are unable to integrate an experience and feel frozen by the traumatic
event/situation. Wholeness includes being present with all our wounds in a way that does not include fear or avoidance.
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is the most common diagnostic category used to describe symptoms arising from emotionally traumatic experiences. The traumatic experience involves actual (or threatened) death or injury to the individual or others. The traumatic experience is one where the individual feels intense fear, helplessness, horror or betrayal.
Treatment for trauma-based concerns includes emotionally-oriented counseling to process and make sense of past experiences, building skills for coping with the emotional outcome of trauma, and body-centered therapy to assist with releasing stored tensions that resulted from the trauma.
Anger Management
Anger management is a goal-focused process designed to teach both awareness and new coping techniques. Anger is a normal, healthy emotion and individuals develop problems when they are unable to express anger or express it too often.
Anger management counseling teaches individuals how to recognize signs/triggers of anger and practice action steps to calm and manage anger in an emotionally positive way.
Coping and Stress Management
All adults need to have some sense of direction and the skills to cope with daily life stressors. Without coping skills and stress management planning, most people feel like days move by without direction or purpose, they're living on auto-pilot, or they don't have the choice to live a stress-managed life.
Grief and Loss
Grief and loss is greatly misunderstood in our culture. It is a profound emotional reaction to change and/or death of a loved one. Grief often presents with intense mental and physical symptoms. Individuals commonly respond to grief by trying to fix, ignore, or minimize the feelings surrounding loss. All these approaches deny the reality that grief demands to be recognized and shared.
Individuals need to make room and create time for grief. Our losses need to matter to us. Grief Counseling is the process of understanding how our grief changes us and defines us.
Neglect and Shame
Adults that have grown up in situations of neglect are more sensitive to the emotion shame. Developing a shame-based identity can set in during childhood as a defense mechanism against parents/guardians who are failing them. Children need to look up to their parents for survival, and it's difficult for a child to understand when a parent is incapable of providing what's needed. The result- the child internalizes this as their fault.
On a deeper level, the child comes to believe that their needs are not as important as others, they are unimportant, or they are not worthy of having boundaries. With this defense, children can keep their parents as the constant beings that are needed by the young. Children often grow into adults unaware that the defense response is still impacting day to day life and relationships.
Harm Reduction
Harm reduction is a practice designed to reduce the harmful consequences associated with high risk behavior. The center provides harm reduction counseling for the person engaging in high risk behavior related to sexual activity (unplanned frequent partners, unprotected sex, doing acts that one does not want to do). Concerns about sexual behaviors need to be explored in a safe, nonjudgmental environment.
Women's Concerns
Common concerns for women include reproductive concerns, managing PMS and PMDD, empowerment, healthy boundaries in relationships, self-worth and body image.
Men's Concerns
Common concerns for men include understanding anger, comparing self to others, defining worth and self-esteem, and nurturing intimacy in relationships.
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Conscious Living Counseling & Education Center
Individual and Couples Counseling for adults in the Fargo-Moorhead area. Quality, effective counseling in a private setting.
Counseling Services
Counseling can assist individuals with life's challenges. Counseling provides an environment that nurtures personal change, brings about deeper self-awareness, and assists with reaching goals for potential and wellness.
Counseling can also be treatment-based to reduce the symptoms of anxiety, depression and other mental health disorders. Counselors work with a wide range of clinical concerns and adhere to a professional code of ethics.
There are many approaches to effective therapy and counseling. Most important, is that the approach is tailored to meet the individual's needs and supports the outcomes desired by the client.
Licensed counselors at Conscious Living Counseling are dedicated to providing confidential and effective care. We welcome any questions you may have about the counseling process.
Individual Counseling
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Couples or Marriage Counseling
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Address: 26 Roberts Street North, Suite B105, Fargo North Dakota Telephone: 701-371-6211 Email: askus_fargocounselor.com
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