How Individual Counselling Can Help When Your Wife Is Always Yelling

Marriage is a partnership built on love, communication, and mutual respect. But when one partner is consistently yelling or being verbally aggressive, it can create a toxic and emotionally draining environment. If you’re a man in this situation, you may feel confused, hurt, or even powerless. While it’s natural to want to fix the relationship, individual counselling can be an essential first step in understanding the dynamics, protecting your well-being, and fostering positive change.

2025-06-24T02:09:53-07:00By Janel Ball|Relationships, Abuse, Mental Health|

Socializing and rejoining society after a pandemic

The summer is finally here and as vaccinations rise and covid cases fall, the doors leading back to society and to normalcy are opening, slowly, one at a time, revealing a bright big house full of airy rooms filled with people and friends and family we haven’t been with for a long time, along with all the lovely things that we can now do once again.

2025-06-24T02:10:15-07:00By Janel Ball|Relationships, Anxiety Disorders, Mental Health|

Men Can Experience Abuse

Yes, it is true that men can experience abuse. This can happen in many different types of relationships. The good news is help is available. Before you can understand abuse, you need to know what it is and how to recognize it when it occurs. What Is Abuse? Abuse is defined as one person [...]

2024-11-04T19:02:14-08:00By Janel Ball|Abuse, Educational, Healing Solutions, Men's Health, Mental Health, Relationships|

Assessment of Intimate Partner Violence and Its Mental Health Consequences

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2010), more than 1 in 3 women in the United States have been victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). This includes physical assault, rape, or stalking. However, even though heterosexual males remain the largest class of offenders, there is finally a growing recognition of the [...]

2024-11-04T19:02:18-08:00By Janel Ball|Relationships, Mental Health|

Top 10 Tips for Finding Love When You Have Emotional Problems

Dating can bring joy and passion or make you feel lonely and misunderstood. When you add emotional disturbances into the mix, things can get even more complicated—if you let them. But you're hardly alone in your confusion. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, in any given year, roughly one in four adults experiences [...]

2024-11-04T19:02:58-08:00By Janel Ball|Healing Solutions, Men's Health, Mental Health, Relationships|

When a Man is Ready to Commit

As a man, how do you know when you’ll be ready to commit? After working with male clients for 15 years, I have learned a thing or two about men. When it comes to commitment, I have a philosophy that three things must be in place for a man to commit to a relationship [...]

2025-05-14T05:28:46-07:00By Janel Ball|Relationships|

How Improving Our Communication Can Make Our Relationships Better

Over the course of our lifetimes, we develop hundreds of professional and personal relationships. Paradoxically, it’s often the people we consider closest to us—such as our partners, parents, children, colleagues, or friends—with whom we have the most conflict. For many people, this type of interrelational discord is a major source of stress. Professional help can be [...]

2017-10-27T21:40:04-07:00By Janel Ball|Relationships|

What Imagery Best Describes Your Intimate Relationship?

What Imagery Best Describes Your Intimate Relationship? Think about the question for a moment. Would you describe your relationship as an adventurous open air balloon ride drifting freely over a cloud filled sunny sky? Or would a dark room with rusted iron windows bolted shut be an apt description? Exploring Your Ultimate End-Point Establishing successful [...]

2017-10-27T21:40:13-07:00By Janel Ball|Relationships|

The Overly Involved Mother/Son Relationship

When a father is physically or emotionally absent, the parents frequently can't form a healthy bond with each other, much less with their children. Frequently, the mother may attempt to bond with the oldest son to satisfy her unmet emotional needs. Subsequently, the son's self-esteem becomes defined by his mother. Fortunately, individual therapy and [...]

2025-05-14T05:46:26-07:00By Janel Ball|Assertive Communicaiton, Relationships, Self-Care Strategies, Self-Esteem|

Gender Roles and How They Limit Us

Gender Roles and How They Limit Us Gender roles are forces that tend to separate men and women. We hear phrases like, "he is just a boy," or, "girls are fragile." We assign these roles to children who grow up to be adults who have limited tools to understand, let alone deal with, these [...]

2025-05-14T05:46:13-07:00By Janel Ball|Assertive Communicaiton, Educational, Men's Issues, Relationships|

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