Community Connexions

• Speaking and Conference - Mikel is available to speak to your church, conference or group.

Marriage Counseling

A Three Phase Approach

• Relationship Stabilization - This often occurs in 3-5 sessions where communication methods are established
  
  
• Relationship Improvement - Each spouse receives advocacy in order to reestablish positive sentiment toward their partner.
  
  
• Obstacles Addressed - Past injuries that have lead toward resentment are revisited in an atmosphere of positive sentiment and improved communication in order to remove obstacles that prevent the couple from achieving true intimacy.

Relationship Enrichment:

• Premarital
• Intimacy
• Covenant

Overcoming Relationship Difficulties:

• Divorce
• Affairs
• Pornography
• Anger Issues
• Parenting
• Extended Family
• Sexual Intimacy
• Communication
• Avoidance

Depression Counseling

Know the Signs:

• Feeling empty inside
• Tiredness and lethargy
• Loss of interest in what you would normally enjoy being involved in
• Change in eating habits with either a significant loss or gain in weight
• Change in sleeping habits with either insomnia or excessive sleepiness
• Feelings of worthlessness

Anxiety Counseling

Know the Signs:

• Feeling overwhelmed
• Agitation or restlessness
• Mind racing
• Impending feelings of dread or doom
• Loss of appetite
• Migraine headaches
• Hypertension ― high blood pressure

Personality Counseling

Know the Types:

• Relationships seem superficial
• Nagged by fears of rejection
• Feel like a doormat
• Afraid to speak up for self
• Periodic outbursts of anger over even small things

• Friends may note loudness in speech
• Known to adorn self with tattoos, unusual hair colors etc.
• Dress provocatively
• Live life as if on stage
• Flirtatious

• Relationships seem either wonderful or horrible with little middle ground
• Fears of rejection or of abandonment
• Thoughts of harming self or of ending life
• Presence of childhood abuse

• You might characterize yourself as a "loner"
• There is little interest in relationships with others
• People may find you emotionally "cool" or somewhat aloof
• You live life in your mind and experience rich fantasies of how life could be
• You spend much time in solitary activities such as playing video games

• Highly value self
• Expect to be highly valued by others
• Have few relationships
• Are easily offended by the comments of others

• Have strong fears causing you to avoid situations or settings
• Have a propensity toward perfectionism
• Preoccupied with orderliness
• Fears of touching objects other people have touched
• Fell time pressures to get things done

• Feelings of inadequacy or of being incompetent

• Rely on others for decision making
• May continue to live with parents much longer than most

• Feelings of inadequacy or of being incompetent

• Rely on others for decision making
• May continue to live with parents much longer than most

Dream Interpretation

Nightmares and Sleep Terrors

• Waking up in a panic

• Dreams give you a sense of dread or doom
• Dreaming seems bizarre leaving you confused

• You have a fear of going to sleepFeelings of inadequacy or of being incompetent

• Rely on others for decision making
• May continue to live with parents much longer than most