“Knowing that the problem is the problem frees us up to speak without reservation about how it is affecting us.”

Corona Virus Online Therapy for Essential Workers

http://www.coronavirusonlinetherapy.com

I a member of  mental health network offering free and sliding scale counseling to members of the essential workforce who continue to work despite exposure risks. This includes people such as medical providers, grocery store staff and many other services. 

I am offering $25-50 sessions through CVOT. Visit the site and sign-up today. Spread the word about CVOT!

Is this different than counseling with you?

I created this separate section on my website to emphasize that good counseling meets people exactly where they are and how they are. A person’s needs really dictates all good counseling services. When someone is in crisis or overwhelmed by the immediate situation, we focus on managing, prioritizing and resourcing that person for the NOW. Sometimes that is exactly what counseling is. 

So yes, this is a counseling service designed to meet the needs with compassion, creativity and lots of care.

Sometimes that means bringing members of the support network with the person’s permission into session to also learn helpful ways of dealing with the hardships and stress of the pandemic.

What do these services include?

These services are designed to manage the daily stress and many changing challenges of the pandemic. The hope is by doing do we will also interrupt potential trauma from taking root.

Trauma, meaning a disconnected, intrusive and overwhelming feeling of unsafety and it’s beliefs and behaviors, breeds in that isolation imposed by that shutting down function that is triggered when it gets overwhelming or it gets unheard or held by those around we are in contact with, in physical proximity or online.

Knowing that the problem is the problem, and that we are NOT the problem can go a long way to freeing up our inner resources that may have been shut down.

If we have been caught up in critical inner dialogue or outer relationships at this high stress time, we run this risk of shutting down.

Most of us have some fearful core beliefs or worries about ourselves, others and the world that are easily triggered right now. These can escalate our fear, shame, self-protective behaviors and outer aggression.

It’s the shutting down and isolation that is created, whether it is exhibited or just a felt inner experience, that worries me as a counselor right now and that I want to help address.

Some of the practices and interventions I use regularly with people include

• Monitoring & intervening in thought processes & mood cycles (CBT)

• Body scan/Relaxation

• Taking emotions & stress temperature

• Unblending & relating to parts (IFS work)

• Improving relationships

• Breathing practices

• Tapping/EFT

• Journaling

• Mapping

• Music Map

What is the group meeting or consultation about?

I am offering a group meeting option with this set of services so that support networks can become catalysts for the kind of self-care that reduces the likelihood of chronic trauma and long term stress response disruptions.

Long term stress and overwhelming events increase the likelihood of depression and anxiety problems later. We know that social isolation increases the likelihood of these difficulties as well so it treats the problem by creating connections.

Be safe, Be well. Be kind- inside & out.

             Kristina

Corona Virus Online Therapy for Essential Workers

Free & Sliding Scale

I a member of  mental health network offering free and sliding scale counseling to members of the essential workforce who continue to work despite exposure risks. This includes people such as medical providers, grocery store staff and many other services.

www.coronavirusonlinetherapy.com 

Please ask me about this service if you are in this high risk group. Visit the site and spread the word to those you know as well.