ELAINE KORNGOLD, Licensed Professional Counselor | Certified Brainspotting Therapist | Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapist | ADHD Counseling, Financial Therapy, Career Counseling | 503-770-0810 | AskCounseling@outlook.com
This article describes ageism encountered by older adults searching for jobs or trying to improve their current career position. “Ageism is one of the most unfair paradoxes in the labor market: People put in decades of hard work and then … Read more
This article describes the potential life-long impacts of trauma experienced during infancy. Experts in infant mental health (from the prenatal period up to age 3), state that very young children who experience exposure to domestic violence, natural disasters such as … Read more
This article describes millions of people being affected by trauma, but not getting properly diagnosed and properly treated. PTSD symptoms experienced after delivering a stillborn baby include: numbness, vivid paranoia, bursts of anger, inability to differentiate between the past and … Read more
Adult clients with ADHD had often experienced trauma in the past, especially if their ADHD was not diagnosed until adulthood. Just having an undiagnosed ADHD in childhood can result in many traumatic experiences, such as feelings of inadequacy, or not … Read more
Traditional talk therapy is considered a top-down approach because it works primarily with the neocortex (on top of our brain) where speech and language live, and encourages people to think their way through their emotional responses in their subcortical or … Read more
Here is an interesting recent article that describes a groundbreaking Canadian study on what makes sex great. The researchers at Ottawa University realized that while there seemed to be an infinite number of books about bad sex, there were very … Read more
A colleague of mine from Atlanta wrote about offering Brainspotting treatment to a client with a traumatic background and ADHD who was coping by analyzing and intellectualizing. “Sara came to me for Brainspotting after years of therapy. She states: ‘I … Read more
During Brainspotting therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy sessions, we may ask clients to notice where in their bodies they are experiencing their feelings. For some clients, that’s a difficult question. They may have spent decades trying hard not … Read more
This article describes mental health symptoms of menopause that many doctors don’t talk about. As a result, people are not always aware that they are going through menopause. “… new research shows that perimenopausal and menopausal people also experience brain … Read more
This article describes how the decline in the financial markets due to the Coronavirus Pandemic is impacting people who are either close to retirement or are already retired. “For older people, the coronavirus crisis has been an appalling shock. Many can’t travel … Read more