Cross Creek Counseling

read moreSacramento Counseling by California Marriage and Family Counselors. Organize your thoughts, review past correspondence, seek comfort or guidance from previous communications; these are the benefits of e-therapy. The barriers to traditional 50 minute face-to-face sessions include, finances; working single parents who only have time for themselves at 9:30 pm; the individual who lives and works in a small community - the therapist, minister, doctor, city employee in that small community. Flex work schedule?

read moreSacramento Counseling by California Marriage and Family Counselors. If someone tells you they are thinking about suicide, you should take their distress seriously, listen nonjudgmentally, and help them get to a professional for evaluation and treatment. People consider suicide when they are hopeless and unable to see alternative solutions to problems. Suicidal behavior is most often related to a mental disorder (depression) or to alcohol or other substance abuse. Suicidal behavior is also more likely to occur when people experience stressful events (major losses, incarceration).

read moreSacramento Counseling by California Marriage and Family Counselors. Stress is a natural part of life. The expressions are familiar to us, "I'm stressed out, " "I'm under too much stress, " or "Work is one big stress." Stress is hard to define because it means different things to different people; however, it's clear that most stress is a negative feeling rather than a positive feeling. You may feel physical stress which is the result of too much to do, not enough sleep, a poor diet or the effects of an illness.

read moreSacramento Counseling by California Marriage and Family Counselors. Imagine living in a fast-moving kaleidoscope, where sounds, images, and thoughts are constantly shifting. Feeling easily bored, yet helpless to keep your mind on tasks you need to complete. Distracted by unimportant sights and sounds, your mind drives you from one thought or activity to the next. Perhaps you are so wrapped up in a collage of thoughts and images that you don't notice when someone speaks to you. For many people, this is what it's like to have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD.

read moreSacramento Counseling by California Marriage and Family Counselors. People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) suffer intensely from recurrent, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) or rituals (compulsions), which they feel they cannot control. Rituals such as hand washing, counting, checking, or cleaning are often performed with the hope of preventing obsessive thoughts or making them go away. Performing these rituals, however, provides only temporary relief, and not performing them markedly increases anxiety.

read moreSacramento Counseling by California Marriage and Family Counselors. Road rage; soccer parents go nuts.it is difficult not to hear about someone "losing it." Sometimes that "someone" may be our loved ones or us. At Cross Creek Family counseling we are court approved to offer anger management classes and individual therapy. Why are we losing our tempers more and in such extreme ways? We live in a fast paced society without a lot of societal constraints on behavior. The world we live in and our efforts to keep up eat away at our internal constraints and suddenly we are so angry we can't see straight.