Lisa Kift

MFT

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Lisa Kift Quick Facts

Main Areas: relationship issues, family of origin work, stress management, anxiety, anger-management, trauma, depression, premarital education
Best Sellers: The Premarital Counseling Workbook, The Marriage Refresher Course - for couples
Career Focus: psychotherapist, writer, media consultant
Affiliation: Califo ia Association of Marriage and Family Therapists

LoveAndLifeToolbox.com is proudly one of the first emotional, mental and relationship health resource websites created by a licensed psychotherapist in private practice. In The Toolbox you have access to a huge arsenal of potential tools to put into your own "toolbox" in the form of:

Lisa is the creator of Therapy-At-Home workbooks, mini-guides and other self-improvement products for individuals and couples.

The Premarital Counseling Workbook for Couples

The Marriage Refresher Course Workbook for Couples

Family of Origin Work: Untangle Your Unhealthy Roots

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Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT has a therapy practice working with individuals and couples in Marin County, CA., MarinTherapyAndCounseling.com.

Free Articles & Book Excerpts

5 Steps to Create Positive Change in Your Relationship

http://loveandlifetoolbox.com/5-steps-to-create-positive-change-in-your-relationship/

The Under the Radar Relationship Killer

http://loveandlifetoolbox.com/the-under-the-radar-relationship-killer/

Be Your Own Therapist: 3 Questions to Ask Yourself

http://lisakifttherapy.com/article_10_characteristics_of_successful_relationships.html

It's True: Happiness is Emotional and Relationship Health

http://loveandlifetoolbox.com/its-true-happiness-is-emotional-and-relationship-health/

Ask the Therapist: My Boyfriend's Job is More Important Than Me

http://loveandlifetoolbox.com/ask-the-therapist-my-boyfriends-job-is-more-important-than-me/

Ask the Therapist: My Boyfriend has Alcohol and Mental Health Issues

http://loveandlifetoolbox.com/ask-the-therapist-my-boyfriend-has-alcohol-and-mental-health-issues/

Ask the Therapist: Something Feels Off in My Relationship

http://loveandlifetoolbox.com/ask-the-therapist-something-feels-off-in-my-relationship/

Lisa Kift Books

The Premarital Counseling Workbook for Couples

http://loveandlifetoolbox.com/the-toolbox-store/the-premarital-counseling-workbook-for-couples/

The Marriage Refresher Course Workbook for Couples

http://loveandlifetoolbox.com/the-toolbox-store/the-marriage-refresher-course-workbook-for-couples/

Family of Origin Work: Untangle Your Unhealthy Roots

http://loveandlifetoolbox.com/the-toolbox-store/family-of-origin-work-untangle-your-unhealthy-roots/

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Driven Into The Ground: Stress Management Strategies For Professionals

In this fast-paced, dog-eat-dog world we live in, super-achievers often find themselves at the top of the heap in their professions. They’re the ones who eat, breathe and sleep their jobs, race out of the house, briefcase and PDA in hand, occasionally a quick kiss to the spouse and kid on the ...

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How to Reconnect with Your Spouse

I don’t subscribe to the notion that “marriages should be easy.” What I do believe is that marriages are hard work and they require time, attention and nurturing to continue to flourish. If you consider how much people change over the years, think about how a relationship would inevitably ...

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Childhood Experience and Adult Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Adult anxiety has many faces, manifestations and levels. The anxiety disorder I’ve had the most contact with in my experience as a therapist is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and from here on when I speak of “anxiety” I will be referring to this. I work from a family of origin perspective, ...

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Healthy Relationships: Assessing the Emotional Safety

Couples seek relationship counseling for numerous reasons. As a professional who works with many different couples with a variety of issues, I’ve identified one similar thread that runs through all of them. Their relationships lack in varying degrees of “emotional safety.” Typically, the ...

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Quick Tips for Executive Stress Management

None of has unlimited time. Professionals or executives often find themselves in a pressure-cooker environment as they manage people, make costly decisions or determine directions of their organizations - on top of their obligations to family and friends. How they manage their time is critical ...

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5 Secret Qualities Of Happy People

If there's one thing that we all seek - it's happiness. I've never met a person who has told me they didn't want to be happy, have you? When I do individual therapy, I have the opportunity to sit down with people as they present their conce s to me - whatever they may be. They usually seek ...

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What Is Family Of Origin Work?

I've been asked this question enough times that I decided to expand on the topic in this article. Therapists will likely have slightly different interpretations of what it is - and how to go about doing the therapy work itself. My definition of "family of origin work" in it's simplest form is, ...

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Quick Couples Assessment Checklist: How Strong Is Your Relationship Foundation?

In my work with couples as a Marriage and Family Therapist, I’ve concluded that there are certain aspects that determine the strength of a couple’s relationship foundation - that is, the relationship’s ability to stand strong in the face of the things that life throws out, be it normal daily ...

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6 Great Reasons To Get Premarital Counseling

Most couples spend more time planning their weddings than their marriages! With divorce rates at an all time high, it seems that couples are facing more challenges than ever in preserving their relationship stability. In my relationship counseling work as a Marriage and Family Therapist, I’ve ...

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Premarital Counseling - Invest In The Future Of Your Marriage

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3 Quick Tips For Anger Management

Anger is one of the four primary emotions and has a very good purpose of alerting us to our boundaries being crossed by others. It serves us well when it's expressed in a healthy way. However, when anger becomes screaming, ranting, raving, or becoming physical with another person, you may have a ...

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Top 5 Relationship Tips

I've written a lot about healthy relationships and what aspects successful couples have that make them unique. As I continue my couples therapy work I continue to gather more information about relationships, the importance of good couples communication, their most significant sticking points - ...

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Love And Life Toolbox: Happiness is Emotional and Relationship Health

LoveAndLifeToolbox.com honors the connection between emotional and relationship health. “The Toolbox” is packed with articles and tools by Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT and other helping professionals, to support your growth in both areas.

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"Happiness is emotional and relationship health."

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How to get started

More of Lisa's tools for emotional and relationship health can be found at LoveAndLifeToolbox.com

Learn about Lisa's psychotherapy practice in Marin County, Califo ia at MarinTherapyAndCounseling.com

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I'm offering online therapy services to residents of Califo ia.

Learn more at Califo iaOnlineTherapyAndCounseling.com