Isabel Kirk

Master Degree in Professional Counseling

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Online Counseling Psychotherapy Expert

Isabel Kirk Quick Facts

Main Areas: Relationships, Dating, Grief & Loss, Eating Disorders, Personal Growth
Career Focus: Author, Individual and Online Counselor

I am a bilingual mental health counselor psychotherapist offering face-to-face and online counseling services. I work with people from different ages and backgrounds and a broad range of issues: relationships (marriage & dating), mood disorders (depression & anxiety, stress), trauma, body image & eating disorders, self-esteem, domestic violence and addictions. I am also devoted to the field of positive psychology and prevention by offering my support to people during processes of change and common life transitions. I specialize in grief and loss including issues that surround immigration. In addition, my orientation offers an excellent opportunity for healthy, interested individuals to seek positive self-improvement, change, and emotional balance so people can live their lives to the fullest. Psychology is part of our everyday lives. Questions about relationships, parenting, feelings, loneliness, drinking too much? and many more are in our minds 24/7. So I believe everybody can benefit from counseling to find better solutions to problems or just to have a better life.

I invite you to visit my blog at http://onlinecounselingandeverydaylife.com">Online counseling and everyday life

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Swine Flu: Remaining Calm in Cases of Potential Mass Panic

Like any other threat to the basic need of survival, the recent Swine flue alert is causing fear in people. While a reasonable fear of death is a normal human reaction to a threat, excessive worrying and paranoia are not. The Swine flu alert can understandably trigger a sudden loss of security ...

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Emotional Preparation to Become a Mother

There are thousands of articles about the physical preparation that a healthy pregnancy requires and very few about the psychological aspects of it. I titled this article “How to emotionally prepare for motherhood” because the psychological changes that start before your become pregnant do not ...

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Dealing with Everyday Life Grief

What comes to your mind when you think of the word grief? Most people think of death. Even if you google it, the listings that come up are related to the emotional response that surfaces from the death of a love one. There is very good information and help out there related to that topic. So the purpose of this article is to talk about the silent discounted grief that is part of our daily life but we don’t even know is there for the most part. Believe it or not we all grief since we are born and our emotional health depends on grant part on the mastering of this process.

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Emotional Cleansing: The Need to Vent

Cleansing, detoxifying diets, exercising… what else do we do to purify or clean our bodies? It is somewhat common to hear people say that they are engaged in one of these practices to clean themselves from toxins and other harmful elements. They usually express to feel more energized and thinking clearer after one of these periods. Our bodies naturally let go of toxicity when we exhale and when we go to the bathroom. My question is what do we do with the emotional toxins that negative emotions, stress and pain accumulate day after day?

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Love…what is love all about? That is the question

In this month when we celebrate love, I wonder what we are celebrating and what love is all about. Love…what’s love? That is the question. A word that causes the biggest happiness but can also cause the biggest misery in our lives, especially when we don’t know what it means, misuse it to achieve personal goals, or to cover up personal deficiencies. I see that everyday when people come to my office justifying their abusive, comfortable or unconscious behavior in the name of LOVE. Providing a definition for love is most difficult.

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Emotional Preparation During Pregnancy to Become a Mother

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Incorporating Change into Your Life

Change! Such a loaded word. What comes to your mind when you think of the word change? Stop for a minute and try to answer that question. What types of feelings does it bring up in you? Hope, excitement, joy, or on the other hand, fear, anxiety, loss, or to make things more complicated, a combination of both? I really like this anonymous quote “Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely,” because I feel it very much encompasses the point I would like to make in this article.

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Forgiveness: How and Why

Forgiveness is one of the most difficult things to do while at the same time one of the most needed in the world. There are plenty of people sick of anger, either toward others or to themselves. Forgiveness involves letting go and surrender of judgment and condemnation while engaging in a ...

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Calming Your Inner Critic Will Help You Improve Your Self-Esteem: Learn How

I just came back from a professional workshop about calming your inner critic and I couldn’t wait to share this interesting topic with you. Where to begin? Well the structure of the human personality is very interesting and complex. Fascinating and confusing, lovely and irritating, logical and irrational… and all at the same time. Our inner selves have different parts and that is why we all experience internal dialogues. Many people who come to my office feel they are going crazy or wonder if they are normal because sometimes this dialogue could be too intense or constant.

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It is not about winning or losing

Wow…the Winter Olympics are gone but the idea of how many good lessons we could learn from them keeps gravitating in my head. The most important is the idea of persistence and trying again vs the typical win or loose model, not only when pursuing an Olympic medal but in life. Stop for a second and think if you are one of those people for whom the word looser tends to come often into your mind? Or do you constantly deal with a feeling of winning or loosing in life even when things are small and maybe not so important? If so, this article is for you.

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Healthy Boundaries = Healthy Relationships

Relationships are a beautiful thing but they can also be challenging. I love a cartoon that reads as follows: “Relationships: a mess worth making.” It very well illustrates how many times relationships can be messy or unhealthy. The main cause of unhealthy relationships? Unhealthy boundaries. ...

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A little bit of empathy, a big benefit for your health

Every human being needs to get around satisfactory human relations, both in the family and other areas. Your emotional well-being will depend largely on the capacity you have to achieve this objective. In 328 BC, Aristotle said humans are social animals. Nowadays, more and more evidence is ...

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Counselor Psychotherapist Isabel Kirk

Website to expose my face-to-face and online counseling services practice.

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Bilingual Psychology Services - In person and online

I am a Bilingual Mental Health Therapist (English & Spanish). I work in person and online with individuals, couples, and groups from different backgrounds and situations, helping them not only to solve their problems but also to have more fulfilling lives.

January 23, 2009