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Expertise
I am able to answer questions about relationships, parent, child, self-help, marriage, counseling, depression, sexual abuse, rape trauma, bereavement, grief, death of loved one, child abduction, conflict at work, separation, divorce, break-up, fear of remaining single, infertility, childlessness, anger management, verbal abuse, family violence, repeating unhealthy relationships, substance abuse, addiction, childhood abuse, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, loneliness, co-dependency, porn addiction, religious alienation, bi-polar disorder, homelessness, anti-social personality, foster care, borderline personality disorder, psychology, mental health, counseling skills, adoption, bankruptcy, insomnia, agoraphobia, social anxiety FREE PDF DOWNLOAD "Counseling In A Book" http://www.ctihalifax.com/images/CounselingInABook.pdf
Experience in the area
I have been a counselor for over 30 years in private practice and hospital settings. For deeper understanding and healing childhood experiences affecting adult life and relationships with self and others see the reader-friendly source http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Counseling-Skills-therapeutic-statements/dp/1442177993
Organizations
College of Professional Counseling and Therapy at http://www.counseling-skills.com
Publications
author, "Effective Counseling Skills" at http://tinyurl.com/yen574x and "Loss and Grief Counseling Skills" at http://tinyurl.com/35da8ov
Education/Credentials
MSW in psychiatric clinical social work
What do you like about this subject?
I find the struggles people face are challenging, interesting, and gratifying to assist.
Something controversial or provocative about this subject
I believe everyone has the ability to self-heal and that many adult problems are in fact understandable childhood ways of coping with pain that have been brought forward into adult life. The key to much healing is to give oneself the healthy parental caring that was missed in childhood.
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Recent Answers from Daniel Keeran
2013-05-13 Research question:
most anything might trigger PTSD depending on the circumstances and individual: angry outbursts, addiction, difficulty with concentration, guilt, depression, suicidal thoughts, reliving the trauma, mental
2013-05-09 Extreme Empathy:
You may have weak emotional boundaries so that your emotions are easily projected onto others or you absorb the emotions of others. This is a common feature of Borderline Personality Disorder. To understand
2013-04-27 interview help?:
• In what setting do you practice? How long have you been practicing? private practice 30+ years • What are your specialties or areas of clinical focus? individual, couple, family, internet
2013-04-24 Sexual Deviancy:
First, you need to believe that you have the ability to choose what you do and think. Then you need to choose to stop looking at porn. The thoughts and masturbation are not wrong in themselves, but because
2013-04-18 multiple personality disorder:
Dissociative Identity Disorder.... Bourru and Burot called Louis Vivé's states "variations of personality," seeing them as successive trance-like states. Their view was influenced by the great theorist
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