by Steve Lowe | May 29, 2020 | Counseling
Garry Barber, Ph.D. – Director of Counseling Center I think I can say with a high level of confidence that only a few people who read this article had any experience with quarantines and wide-spread social distancing before 2020. We have all been on a steep...
by Steve Lowe | Mar 31, 2020 | Counseling
Garry Barber, Ph.D. – Director of Counseling Center Life is filled with difficulties that we must face and find effective ways to process and act upon. We are always coping with some stressor, some pressure, some challenging person, some nagging question. The...
by Steve Lowe | Dec 20, 2019 | Counseling
Garry Barber , PhD – Director of Counseling Center “‘…and they shall call his name Immanuel’ (which means, God with us).” Matthew 1:23 ESV Object Permanence is a term used in developmental psychology to describe what happens in games of peekaboo like those I...
by Steve Lowe | Oct 1, 2019 | Counseling, Grief Management
By: Bill Wattenbarger, PhD In life, things happen. These events may be physical, material, relational, social or even spiritual but in every case, the first response to these experiences is emotional and comes in two flavors: sweet or bitter. We evaluate events as...
by Steve Lowe | Jul 1, 2019 | Counseling
By: Bill Wattenbarger, PhD Parenting adolescents can be an especially hard thing. But truly, it has never been harder to be an adolescent than now. Small children are taught to obey their parents. Parents must take authority because life is dangerous, and a child...