The journey toward better living starts here.
Life is a balancing act.
Life’s responsibilities, changes, and emotionally painful struggles with their accompanying stresses, can turn a perfectly balanced life upside down. Attitudes, emotions, and behaviors adjust to compensate for the stresses. Experiences become magnified or minimized. And the body and mind respond with coping strategies that aren’t necessarily positive. A Balanced Life can help you identify and overcome a variety of problems, including:
How to get off the see-saw and put both feet on the ground.
Michael Mruz will thoroughly explore and discuss your problem, help identify its source, and determine the best ways to help resolve it.
Anxiety, Panic Attacks, and Stress-They can destroy your capacity to function at work, school, or home. Michael Mruz will help you face the fears, phobias, and anxieties that leave you feeling on-edge, stessed, nervous, and helpless. Releasing these problems will enhance productivity at work, school, and with your family, and free your inhibitions for better creativity.
Depression-Depression can block your sense of pleasure and life potential, cause hopelessness, gloom, guilt, lack of energy, and varied mood swings. Michael Mruz can help you overcome these painful struggles with a specific combination of cognitive-behavioral strategies and insight, accompanied with psychodynamic concepts and when necessary, pharmacological treatment.
Career, Education, and Achievement Coaching-Do you feel that your potential is not met? Are you confused about your life path and feeling like you’re on a treadmill? These may have roots in other problem areas, too, such as depression and anxiety, or emotional inhibition and life transition stresses that interfere with sorting things out and coming to a solution. Through personalized coaching, Michael Mruz can help you resolve these issues.
Separation and Divorce Stresses-Members of a separating or divorcing family can feel painfully alone, and find it difficult to have compassion for each other’s needs. Counseling as a family, couple, or individual can encourage long-term healthy effects. Each individual can learn to let go of the struggles involved in denial, anger, and pain, and build a secure future.
Alcohol and Substance Abuse-Drugs and alcohol can hold a person in limbo. Excess and preoccupation with something can keep you at a distance from other areas of your life. Michael Mruz can help you break the cycle of addiction and, if necessary, co-counsel you along with your involvement in a 12-step program.
Post-traumatic Stress-Surviving a traumatic event takes a lot of strength, and sometimes keeping it together results in stress. Michael Mruz uses an integration of compassionate and conflict-resolving strategies to help you deal with painful experiences in an embracing and secure way. The inner resources and strengths you already have will help you deal with the experience, accept it, and bring you to a better place in life.