I am honored to be the newest member of the therapists at Chinn Street Counseling Center. I would like to introduce myself. I have been a licensed MFT since 1977. I have enjoyed working with individual adults, couples and families in private practice. I have led men's groups and marriage workshops, father-son and father-daughter retreats. The vision I hold for my work at Chinn Street includes men's groups for those who have been in a career for many years and have lost their sense of purpose. Another group I plan to lead will deal with the stress and strains put on a meaningful career by the many, rapid changes and growing financial demands each of us must now face. I have a high regard and desire to work with the issues and complexities of the transition phase of late adolescent males into men who need support in this important life change.

If you are interested in individual, couples, family counseling or a men's group please call me: Milton H. Woolley: 707-481-4343. More about Milton...

In this instructive book, Geshe Michael Roach, an ordained Buddhist monk, and diamond merchant, outlines a strategy for achieving personal and business success. Combining his business experience with excerpts from ancient Buddhists texts, he integrates spiritual principles with practical suggestions which are as applicable to the business world as they are to personal and emotional growth.
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The ability to skillfully navigate the world of social skills and emotional understanding is a work in progress for most of us. Emotional Intelligence is a phrase that endeavors to enlarge the concept of valuable human traits and capacities. It is an IQ about people and the world of feelings. How can we as parents build on our children's innate orientation to the emotional world?
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At the center of co-dependency lies low self-esteem and low self-worth or, in different words, negative beliefs about my lovability and my contributions in this world. Because the term co-dependency is used so frequently these days, some critics say it is a catch word that really doesn't describe anything at all or that, because most of us fall into this category, is null and void.
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LifeStory Therapy™ is autobiographical writing under the guidance of a professional therapist and writer. Increasingly, memoir writing is used therapeutically for spiritual and emotional healing. For some, it is easier to write than to talk. For others, it feels too shameful to speak. Often it is scary to feel the pain of opening too much. My own introduction to memoir writing developed spontaneously out of a need to heal the overwhelming loss of my family's summer home--a loss so profoundly deep that my grief only surfaced in dreams. Because I recognized that my loss was deeply buried, I began writing the story of our home, opening with a dream.
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As I see individuals and couples in my practice who are trying to improve relationships, I often observe that they are having difficulties in balancing their personal needs with the needs of the other person in the relationship. Caring about the other person's needs at the expense of caring for our own puts the relationship out of balance, and caring for our own needs without consideration for the other person's puts it out of balance as well. Relationships function best when couples find a way to include both their needs and desires.
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Chinn Street Groups:

Separation/Divorce/Transition Group for Women: ongoing weekly support group for women in any stage of separation from a long term relationship. Facilitated by