"Affirmations in Living"

A licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Dr Val's "Affirmations in Living" counseling service works with individuals, couples and families to reduce the stresses of life and to produce new and greater opportunities for self-growth, relationship healing, and productive living experiences.

Dr Val suggests a couple of questions that may help you determine whether you could benefit from counseling:

  • Do you find that your values don't quite match your priorities?
  • Are you putting time and energy into today's rat race only to discover that it isn't fulfilling you as a person or bringing you what you really want? Is your current relationship with yourself or another person suffering because of this?
    • If your answer to either or both of these questions is "Yes," perhaps counseling - or a brief course of therapy - could turn things around and open up new possibilities for the fulfilling relationships you know you want.

    Among the methodologies Dr Val employees is Imago Relationship Therapy, which gathers together many old and new healing therapies and applies them selectively and effectively to the realities of the modern world.

    She is also trained in PAIRS Relationship and Educational Skills for Couples and Singles.

    For those clients who have been influenced by the work of Dr. John Gray, author of "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus," and other best-selling relationship guides, Dr Val has undertaken extensive study that enables her to gear her work to the principles expressed and developed by Dr. Gray, bringing them into personal focus as determined by your unique life situation.

    Dr Val also conducts education, counseling and therapy groups

    . You may wish to introduce yourself - and perhaps your partner - to the benefits of counseling through group participation, which can be very beneficial if:
  • You want to get to the cause of your problems and dissolve them
  • You want to discover the hidden gifts in any situation and "make lemonade out of the lemons"
    • The combination of extensive and continuing training and day-to-day counseling experience gives Dr Val a broad range of therapeutic modalities to work with, as you can see from the list at the left.

    Of course, you probably have many questions, and Dr Val wants to answer them for you.

    Send a confidential message to Dr Val.