Any counselor will tell you that one of the most common problems observed when people come for help is poor communication skills in their relationships. This isn’t their fault…communication is a skill many of us never formally learned.

While we don’t provide couples counseling, we do help our clients with relationship conflicts to help them understand and develop skills in this area. Every relationship has conflicts. In some relationships, conflict is a serious problem; in others, differences seem to be resolved without creating a major incident.

You will have the greatest success if you read the first blog post: Counseling Insights: What Makes You Procrastinate? and take some time to observe your own procrastination patterns. Once you have accomplished that:

Choose a few of the strategies we use in counseling for depression (or even anxiety counseling) outlined here. Keep working at it until you understand what you need to do to stop putting things off.

Procrastination is a frequent subject that comes up in our counseling sessions & is always frustrating because it results in wasted time, lost opportunities, disappointing work performance, and generally feeling bad about yourself.

First, let’s start off with the good news that depression may be preventable for many people especially when counseling is provided early. It is especially important to take proactive steps if you are aware that you have predisposing factors to depression & are feeling depressive symptoms for 2 weeks or more.

During counseling for depression, we can help you: