I find an increased intake for counseling leading up to holiday seasons such as summer vacation, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. This relates primarily to the added stresses of those season, mainly related to angst over meeting relatives or having to spend more time with a spouse. Stress comes when a situation goes beyond normal abilities [...]
Tags: angst, Anxiety, Christmas, cope, coping, Easter, holiday, relatives, stress, Thanksgiving, vacation
Kids absorb the stress within family relationships. In this video, relationship expert Norm Quantz briefly touches on 3 principles that parents can live by to help DEstress their children. Consistency, even though it is not perfect, can keep children from the anxiety of constantly preparing themselves for the inconsistencies lived and taught by conflicted parents. [...]
Tags: Anxiety, children, communicating, emotional, mental, Parenting, stress
In this final video on Dissociative Identity Disorder and Multiple Personality Disorder, Norm talks about the more normal side of disconnecting.
Tags: Anxiety, DID, disconnecting from reality, dissociative identity disorder, mpd, multiple personality disorder, online counseling therapy, Psychological Abuse, relationship authority
In this video Norm talks about healthy friendships and he also talks about some unhealthy friendships and the different ways they can affect you.
Tags: Anxiety, counseling therapy, crisis, Friends, friendship, healthy friendships, relationship authority, relationships, stress, support
Norm uses his personal experience of a violent and distructive hail storm to illustrate the repercussions of trauma that he sees daily in his private practice with his clients. The serious effects of sexual abuse, assault or childhood trauma, car accidents and sudden deaths are all traumatic emotional events which have lasting effects.
Tags: Anxiety, assault, coping method, effective therapist, emotional truama, mental health professional, online counseling, online video therapy, physical trauma, relationship authority, sexual abuse, violation
