Category: Counseling Services

Coaching Coaching Services Counseling Services Depression Divorce Individual Counseling coaching • counseling • Couples • Divorce • Intimacy • Post Divorce Challenges June 30, 2020 By Sawayer 0 Comments

Post Divorce Adjustment

Divorce occurs in approximately 50% of formal marital unions.

Sometimes it happens in the early years of marriage and sometimes it happens after decades. In either case, your pain and confusion from such loss can be devastating.

Legal process, involving adversarial attorneys, depositions, filing, witnesses, testimony, and attorney’s fees can leave you traumatized and usually financially busted.

It’s common to go over the experience repeatedly in your head, long after the divorce is FINAL legally.

Irrespective if you initiated it or your former spouse did. explaining what happened to children, relatives, and co-workers is difficult to say the least.

Divorce can make you feel isolated and rejected while it is occurring and long after it is over. This can lead to difficulties in your daily functioning for quite some time and often involves unexplained anxiety and depression, and even occasional suicidal thoughts, which drains you emotionally and spiritually.

Counseling or Life Coaching in these situations is NOT a luxury, it’s pretty much a necessity. Compared to the costs of paying for lawyers and court hearings because you have no choice, counseling is something you do because you want to.

Divorce is a stigmatizing and draining process, so virtual counseling and coaching to deal with your emotions can be a useful, confidential and convenient process, where you are discussing issues in the privacy of your own space, without interruptions.

As a Professional Counselor and Expert Level Coach, I can offer you solutions that help you to cope so that you can function optimally.

As someone who has personally experienced the trauma related to divorce, you will be talking to someone who really understands the reality you are experiencing. I survived and so can you!

If you are having emotional or physical symptoms that may require you considering prescription medications, I can work with your chosen medical provider, if the need arises.

You don’t need to go through the confusion and pain all by yourself. Find a competent Professional Counselor or Expert Level Life Coach to walk with you toward the future.

8 Things You Should Do When The Divorce Is Final

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/8-things-you-should-do-when-your-divorce-is-final_n_57b768d6e4b0b51733a38119

Counseling Services First Responder Mental Health Suicide Prevention Traumas PANDEMIC • SUICIDE PREVENTION May 6, 2020 By Sawayer 0 Comments

Links To Interesting Stuff

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By incorporating links that are relevant to the areas of content discussed on the Sawayer Logistics web page, I am able further educate blog readers, using interesting materials created by other knowledgeable experts in the fields of mental wellness, logistics, coaching and counseling. As time goes on and readers request more types of information, the list of links will grow. Feel free to make suggestions for links that you think fit the topics I present here.

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Why A clinical Social Worker Quit Being A Therapist

NAMI – National Alliance on Mental Health

https://www.nami.org/Home

Suicide Awareness and Prevention Training

https://texassuicideprevention.org/training/video-training-lessons-guides/ask-about-suicide-ask/

Covid19 and Mental Health

https://www.apa.org/topics/covid-19/grief-distance

Vision Boards and Goals

https://www.ellevatenetwork.com/articles/8006-using-a-vision-board-to-set-and-achieve-your-goals

Decision Matrix To Help Make the BEST Choices

Counseling Services Couples Counseling Individual Counseling We all need help occasionally • Where Do We Begin April 21, 2020 By Sawayer 0 Comments

Couples Counseling or Couples Coaching

Often times, couples are interested in getting some outside counseling or coaching when they are unable to solve the problems that life is presenting for them in the moment.

If WE as a couple go for coaching or counseling, many questions will get asked about what it means to go for outside help.

Does going for coaching or counseling as a couple mean we have somehow failed?

Individuals who are coupled up may have many questions about either couples coaching or counseling.

They may ask about the differences between counseling and coaching. Coaching is a term that for many people does not conjur up images of being mentally ill as counseling does for some people.

There are questions about how exactly coaching differs from exactily?

What about questions of how often we will have to go and for how long?

And of course the money question of how expensive is it and can we afford it?

Is remote video counseling or coaching over the internet secure?

Is video counseling or coaching as effective as face to face counseling or coaching?

Let me answer some of the questions with a simple list

Internet Coaching and/or Counseling works just as well as face to face counseling does.
Counseling is past oriented and deals with many historical couples problems in an attempt to deal with current problems.
Coaching is future oriented and deals mainly with visioning positive and measurable couples goals. It is very HOPE oriented
Being willing ask for help is a sign of maturity and growth, not a sign of failure and certainly not a sign of mental illness.
Making changes to your lives together is challenging and will require a committment to several months of work, but it is a work of love.
You will know when you have improved as a couple and are ready to try again on your own to re-experience the connection you yearn for.
Its natural to have feelings of embarassment or shame when you open up your relationship to a counselor or a coach. In the beginning that is perfectly OK and normal. Once you begin, you will wonder why you had those feelings at all.
Your partner may really love the fact that you have made changes as a partner, as result of going through couples coaching or counseling.
The journey on your counseling path, is the best journey you will ever take!

Here is a link that further explains how couples coaching and couples counseling differ and where they share common ground!

https://marriageteam.org/coaching-vs-counseling/

Don’t forget to schedule an appointment on https://live.vcita.com/site/y55xiudxuyugs7f0 We are ready to help!

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Coaching Services Counseling Services Mental Health Coaching vs. Counseling April 21, 2020 By Sawayer 1 Comment

Expert Life Coaching or Professional Counseling?

I am often asked what the difference is between seeing a counselor and seeing a life coach. It’s a great questions and the answer is pretty straight forward. Here at Sawayer Logistics, we provide both counseling services and coaching services.

What is Life Coaching

Life coaching specifically focuses on the present issues you are needing guidance on with a view toward growth and toward the future.

There is very little looking back at individual histories and problems. Also, the life coach can be certified by a recognized certifying agency.

This usually means that they are aware of the ethics of providing coaching and what are the best ways to coach.

Since there is not any State license required at the present time in any of the States, to work as a life coach, we are less limited to who we can see and where we can provide our coaching services.

This means that thru the technology of the internet, we connect thru the secure video platforms of Zoom.com, Doxy.me or Vsee.com, which allows me to see you wherever you have the technology to make the video connection.

In order to earn my credentials as an Expert Level Life Coach, I had to take a series of training courses and tests in order to be certified. This is not a one time process and we are always involved in continuing education.

What is Counseling

In the State of Texas, becoming licensed as a Professional Counselor requires a Master’s Degree in a related field, thousands of hours of training and education, enduring a supervised practicum and taking a state examination.

Re-licensure happens every two years and each counselor must show that he or she has taken the required courses in Ethics and Jurisprudence plus additional training hours in counseling related areas.

Individual Counseling by a licensed counselor is a bit more restricted than being an Expert Level Coach.

How is it restricted? Well, first of all, as a Licensed Counselor in Texas, I am not at present able to provide therapy services in other States or Countries.

Having said that, there is strong governmental interest as a result of the Covid19 Pandemic to change those restrictions and allow any duly licensed Counselor in one State to practice across State Jurisdictions, with the appropriate oversight.

Paying cash or using insurance to pay for counseling makes a difference

Individual counseling is also affected by the way you pay for it. If you are a “private pay” client and don’t use your health insurance, we don’t have to give you an official diagnosis and provide that to your insurance company to justify payment.

If you are using insurance or your EAP program for payment, then we are usually asked to provide them with reports and diagnosis. Also, they often set a limit on the number of sessions they will pay for up front. They can extend the number of sessions, but normally it is a set number.

Let me emphasize that as long as you acknowledge that you are freely seeking counseling, then it doesn’t matter who pays because your looking for a solution to a difficult problem.

Still some people see having any kind of personal problem as an embarrassment and fear social repercussions if the word gets out that they are seeing a mental health professional.

On the other hand, when there is some “involuntary” pressure to get counseling, that is something to discuss in the very first counseling session. You are free to chose, and I am here to assist you!

Individual or Couples Counseling, as opposed to coaching, is also focused on problems and on the historical issues that may have contributed to the present problems being experienced. Of course, like coaching, the goal is growing in your coping skills to enjoy a better future!

In both the private pay and insurance pay scenarios for counseling discussed above, you will have to sign consents for release of any information and releases of liability paperwork.

At Sawayer Logistics we provide you with information on counselor standards and ethics, information on the fee schedule and other information about the counseling process you need as a consumer.

That’s about it as far as how the individual or couple counseling differs from life coaching.

If you have questions, send me an email and I will be happy to respond. Here is the link for further reading!

https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/whats-difference-between-therapist-life-coach-0823165