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Counseling - A Time to Heal

One of the gifts resulting from the "inner-child" movement is the realization that healing our wounded inner-child is the key to COMPLETE recovery.

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.

A Time To Heal provides a unique counseling service for people who want to make changes in their life and their relationships. We serve people with a variety of sexual orientations, from all age groups and ethnic backgrounds.

A Time To Heal started presenting workshops November 2004. Our first workshop was SERENITY IN THE SUN. We featured John Bradshaw, who presented, Homecoming-Reclaiming, Championing, and Healing Your Wounded Inner Child.

Other speakers were: Ted Klontz, PhD. Onsite, Nashville, Tenn., Beth Moran, RN, ARNP, Integrated Wellness, Sarasota, FL., Joy Freeman, D.C., PhD., Express Yourself, Sarasota, FL., and Conni Olson, RN, LCSW-C, A Time To Heal, Sarasota, FL. The workshop was a tremendous success. That success encouraged Conni to produce and present future workshops.

In 2006, Together Forever Workshops will focus on Relationship Intimacy--How to Discover, Refresh, Renew, Restore, Maintain, and Strengthen Intimacy in your Marriage/Coupleship.

Conni Olson, Director and Sr. Therapist of A Time To Heal, had been challenged over the past four years with the changes she has observed in her practice in couples seeking couples/marital counseling. What became very obvious over those years was:

1. Couples were entering therapy at a younger ages.
2. Couples were seeking help earlier in their relationships.
3. The issues bringing them into therapy were more intense then in prior generations.
4. Assignments given to couples weren't being completed.
5. 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 was 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 the 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 didn't want to take the slow process described above. This is why we decided to give more workshops and to focus on INTIMACY this year. Here we will be giving 25 to 30 tools to couples in a weekend and those tools will produce HOPE, until there is time and the couple is willing to clear out the baggage of past wounds from previous relationships and their childhoods. I hope you can join us for a workshop and this exciting 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:

1. Creating intimacy and trust.
2. Overcoming codependency.
3. Self-esteem and healthy boundaries.
4. Loving without addiction.
5. Depression, anxiety, and stress.
6. Grief, loss, and loneliness.
7. Resolving conflicts.
8. Sexual difficulties.
9. Childhood wounds related to alcoholism, incest and other traumas.
10. Effective communication and anger release.
11. The ability to express emotion HEALTHLY.
12. Money and power struggles.
13. Exploring purpose, meaning, and spiritual growth.
14. Clarifying commitments.
15. Freeing creativity, spontaneity and joy.
16. Eliminating harmful criticism and teaching healthy criticism.

Over the last 20 years, a form of Higher Power (who we choose to call God) has been let into the therapy room in many therapy offices. We have invited God to A Time To Heal and into our therapy rooms. In the past, there was an artificial and stilted separation of spirituality from therapeutic growth. Now, there's more of an understanding of the need to integrate and honors one's spiritual self - there is growing diminishment of that sense of split from spirit, soul, and emotional self. More and more, we are coming to understand that the issues we face, the problems and dilemmas that we encounter in ourselves and our relationships, are meant to help us grow - to grow into the loving beings we were born as. (Changes in the World of Therapy, Jason Saffer)

Also, over the last 20 years, we have come increasingly out of the closet of denial: therapist 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. The therapy profession has facilitated this expansion of awareness and emergence from denial by increasingly embracing the "growth model" for human development versus the more medically-oriented "pathology model." (Changes in the World of Therapy, Jason Saffer). We at A Time To Heal adhere to these beliefs and are proud to be part of the expansion of awareness and change.

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