The "Safe Filter"
The "Safe Filter"

Relationship Counseling for Healthy Boundaries and Healing Co-dependent Patterns in Long Island,NY. Schedule a session with Anxiety and Relationship expert Esther Goldstein LCSW today.

What does it mean to feel safe? You feel safe when you know you're cared for, that you're protected from danger and you have someone who has their eye out for you. When you're choosing who to bring into your life, it's important to know how to assess the healthy people from the potentially dangerous people. 

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EMDR Consultation for Complex Trauma, Dissociation and Attachment Issues
EMDR Consultation for Complex Trauma, Dissociation and Attachment Issues

EMDR Consultation for therapists treating complex trauma, attachment wounds, loss and dissociation.

You know that EMDR can change people's lives.

You took the training and have learned the protocol. You know that there are many different ways to help clients heal, and EMDR has been working. But, you've recently hit a few sessions where you kept looping.  Where the processing simply wouldn't budge and you're not sure what is wrong.

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Reparenting Yourself and why it's Important
Reparenting Yourself and why it's Important

Regardless of age, we all have an inner child. A younger version of self. A part that holds the past experiences alive and affects your day-to-day interactions. If you had your needs met as a child and knew your worth, you may have an easier time identifying, requesting and trusting in relationships. 

 

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Forgiveness. Can I?
Forgiveness. Can I?

Carl Rogers wisely says, “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

Forgiveness is one of the hardest lessons to learn and even more difficult to implement. At the same time, forgiveness is one of the first steps necessary in order to create a shift, a change, steering towards a new direction for yourself.  How is it then, that we forgive ourselves for bad choices, habits, broken relationships, or having been stuck in the muck of "just getting-through-ness" for a while? 

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