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

I believe that just putting conflict aside and avoiding conflict, that itself is often an escape mechanism. When you put conflict aside you reduce the opportunity for personal growth. There is a reason there is conflict present;

Tags: children, coping method, dealing with conflict, escape mechanism, marriage therapy, online video therapy, positive thinking, relationship, relationship authority

The subject of dissociation and dissociative identity disorder in terms of how people cope with life is quite broad and often misunderstood by general public.In this video I describe how dissociation might begin, how it becomes a necessary escape and how it becomes a hindrance to personal growth.

Tags: Anxiety, coping method, dissociating, Dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, distance therapy, escape, Mental Health, online video therapy, relationship authority

In this video I talk about anxiety as a coping method. When it becomes evident that something is going on, but often times it isn’t obvious enough for a person to know what it is.

Tags: Anxiety, anxious, cause, coping, coping method, Mental Health, online counseling therapy, overwhelming, relationship authority, stress

Addictions can be described as a habit that has become detrimental to a person’s life. There can be an emotional or physiological addiction or a combination of those two. An addiction is something that is causing interference with healthy living and enjoying life and is now in control of [...]

Tags: Addictions, addictive habit, coping method, emotional addiction, online help, physiological craving, relationship authority, therapy, transferring