Find a Therapist in Shady Side, Maryland.

Do you wonder what "normal" is? Do you feel like there's a rulebook for life that you never got? Do you spend a lot of time trying to make other people happy and wishing they would do the same for you? I can help. I help my clients to change the ways they've always thought and felt about themselves so they can choose a new, more balanced life. You'll be amazed at how much better you can feel!

Are you ready to take things to a deeper level to heal from emotional pain and to experience lasting change? Sharing our struggles with another person while receiving support and encouragement can be a solid beginning to the healing process. Once greater trust and rapport is established, we can begin to face things at a deep emotional level to see where you have the most trouble and where the core pain lies. Once we can see, we have the choice to face. This takes courage and committment from both of us, but it can be done.

“The Golden Rule” can be a helpful guide to psychotherapy: treating others as you would like to be treated, with gentleness, pacing, and respect. If a counseling session is likened to conversing with a knowledgeable advisor on the doorstep of your home, psychotherapy can be like inviting that advisor into the “parlor” or “living room” of your inner world based on trust, at-ease-ness, and confidence in your advisor’s insight. My approach to psychotherapy is interactive and strengths-based, starting with cognitive (thought-based) or behavioral coping skills, and moving into awareness of family of origin themes and the impact of past trauma when needed to activate more enduring personal growth in the client.

You look for psychotherapy when something is wrong, when you are fed up with not being able to get something you need. At the same time, there are some good things in your life and you have strengths. I will listen to you carefully and become your ally. Together we will discover how you are creating what you don't want, and come up with strategies to go toward what you do want. I have much experience and many great tools to put at your service. My satisfaction is to see my clients become more in charge of their lives - and happier!

Individual counseling can be a wonderful and healing way to work through life's little and major struggles. Let Carol Corcoran, LCMFT, LMFT work with you to better see your negative internal patterns and relational patterns that keep you stuck or in unhealthy, unsatisfying relationships within and with those that matter most. Resources may be recommend outside and inside the therapy session to help you forge your path to a newer and healthier you. To learn more go to http://www.creatinghealthyconnections.com/newsite/individuals.htm