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Counselling is a helpful & effective way to enhance your quality of life. In counselling you can:
- learn how to deal with stressful times in a way that works
- glean understanding and purpose from difficult times
- increase your ability to
cope by learning new skills
- experience personal growth
through new insights and
learnings
- break old patterns/habits and
addictions
- improve your sense of self-
worth
- learn to communicate more
effectively
- resolve conflicts
- grow emotionally, mentally
and spiritually
- become the type of person you want to be
What About Faith?
As you can see from the Fresh Hope web site, Beth Murray is a woman of faith and a committed Christian. What does this mean for you as a client? If you do not have a faith orientation, you will benefit from having a psychologist who is firmly grounded in values, morality and respect for humankind. You can expect your sessions to include basic values of respect, dignity and care. Having the faith perspective brought into the counselling is at your discretion and request.
If you are a Christian, you will find that the counselling you receive will line up with Biblical principles and will incorporate aspects of Biblical counselling -- such as having the therapist pray with you, refer to the Bible for guidance and encourage growth in the spiritual aspects of your life.
Do you have a healthy relationship with food?
Take this short test:
1. Is food consuming your life -- do you spend hours a day
thinking about food or exercise?
2. Is your time and energy used up by trying to determine
what you will eat and when?
3. Does your relationship with food effect your relationships
with people?
4. Do you avoid going out with friends because you are afraid
that you won't be able to eat what you want to eat?
5. Have friends or family commented on your eating habits?
6. Does it take you a long time to grocery shop because you
are reading labels?
7. Are you frequently unhappy with how your body looks --
believing that you need to lose weight.
8. Have you found yourself getting upset or angry with friends
who prevent you from following your routines with eating?
9. Do you find yourself lying about what you have/haven't
eaten?
10. Do you choose foods based on calories rather than taste
or what you are craving?
If you answered "yes" to more than one of these questions, you may have issues with food that effect your quality of life.
Important Note on Eating Disorder Treatment Philosophy
At Fresh Hope, we believe in 100% recovery from eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and eating disorder not otherwise specified). This is an important distinction because therapy is approached with a firm belief that recovery and healing is completely possible. This is not a "condition" you need to live with or learn how to manage. There is hope! If you are ready to do whatever it takes to get better, we can help you get there.
Beth Murray has successfully worked with many eating disorder clients who now experience freedom from their eating disorder pasts -- walking firmly in recovery and no longer meeting the diagnostic criteria for an eating disorder.
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