Counseling Keys

How counseling and its mental health focus aids in faster healing, recovery, adaptation, and overall satisfaction in career, family, and other relationships in one’s life.

by Kimberly Key, M.A.

Overcoming the Impact of Divorce and Moving on Today's Children

Whether you're going through a high-conflict divorce, parenting after a relocation or parenting in the most secure and healthy situation, here is critical information that every parent must know. Please share this with a parent that you know if you don't have children. They'll appreciate it. Read More

Tips for Starting Over and Rebooting Your Life

It's never too late for a life reboot. If you're reading this on the first New Moon of the New Year, you'll discover the essential recipe for creating resolutions. If you're reading this at another time, try it out on any other special day (like a first day of the week, a birthday, anniversary, or any special day that you declare as your life reboot day). Read More

Illuminating Hidden Causes of Workplace Stress

From Wall Street to tiny cubicles across the U.S., employees real needs may be getting overlooked. Read More

Adapting to an Empty Nest and Sharing Parenting Pearls Learned Along the Way

It's back to school time. Here is some empathy for empty nesters and some parenting pearls for those still raising their children. Read More

Overcoming Unemployment, Reclaiming Spirit

U.S. unemployment is high-9.1%. A healthy economy has an unemployment rate around 4%-6%. While there are many theories as to why our unemployment rate is so high, I'm not an economist or a politician, so I'm not going to debate about the causes. I would, however, like to offer help to the people who are dealing with the devastating effects of unemployment (and underemployment). Read More

Mother Nature's Impact on Mood and Creativity

Sometimes weather blues can be a benefit for creativity. Read More

Is Your Therapist Re-Traumatizing You?

Life can throw a bunch of curveballs at you. You can suffer from discrimination, grief from lost loved ones, abuse from loved ones, losing your job, financial collapse, environmental toxins and natural disaster, and health degradation. All of these are a normal and real side effect of living. How you handle these difficulties is key to your mental health and overall quality of life. Read More

How Love Controls Us-A Biological, Narrative & Evolved Explanation

Love brings out the worst and best in us. Its influence touches everything--it inspires art, poetry, endless stories, and has led to the creation of architectural marvels, lifesaving inventions, continuing the species, and at its worst, incited wars. Here's an explanation of why and how love controls human behavior more than any drug. Read More

Parenting Tips to Raising Children in an Evolving World

How we raise our children today will determine the state of our world tomorrow. Read More

Confronting Hidden Forms of Discrimination

Discrimination is real, but is there something you can do to disarm it? Read More

Children’s Expectations: What Your Child Would Tell You if They Could

President Barack Obama says to live up to our children's expectations. Learn the top three myths about children and what they really expect--if they could tell you. Read More

In Defense of Marriage

Examining why 50% of people stay married and what they get out of their lifetime commitment. Read More

How the Evolution of Psychology Gave Birth to Counseling

For a discipline that's only around 130 years old, psychology has a lot of practitioners sporting a number of different titles (and I'm not talking about the local bartender down the street, although sometimes they can be quite excellent listeners). I'm talking about psychotherapists, therapists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, marriage and family therapists, and counselors. Read More