Holiday Stress and Family Dynamics: A Therapist’s Guide to Maintaining Balance
Parenting with Empathy: Fostering a Caring Environment at Home
Every parent dreams of a home brimming with warmth and understanding. Yet, creating such a nurturing environment requires more than just good intentions. It demands empathy: the ability to step into our children's shoes and see the world from their perspective. Keep reading as we explore how parenting with empathy can transform your family...
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How Relationship Counseling Can Save Your Marriage
Statistics show that between 40 and 50 percent of marriages in the U.S. end in divorce. Couples who are in failing relationships often feel stuck, frustrated, powerless, and believe divorce is their only option to find happiness. But divorce doesn’t have to be the...
The Connection Between Inflammation and Depression
As the awareness for whole body health continues to grow, we must take a closer look at the connection between inflammation and depression—and how individual counseling combined with holistic healing can help with both. Depression Does Not Cause Inflammation...
5 Tips for Helping a Loved One Who Could Benefit From Counseling
It is excruciatingly painful to watch a loved one struggle with mental health issues while knowing they could benefit from professional counseling. Naturally, you'll want to introduce the idea of professional counseling to your loved one. Thankfully there are...
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Coping with Our Suffering: Grounded Mindfulness
Mindfulness can be defined as a quality or a skill of mind and heart characterized by an open, compassionate...
Coping with Chronic Illness and Pain
Chronic illness and pain often cause challenging and difficult life adjustments, decisions, and demands. We...
Love and Intimate Relationships
Love is a fundamental aspect of human experience. What is love? What is love in intimate relationships?...
Daily Temperature Reading
1. Appreciations 2. Information 3. Puzzles 4. Complaints with requests for change 5. Hopes, wishes and...
Listening to the Body
One of my therapy specialties in my individual counseling practice in Washington DC, Bethesda, and Reston is...
Exercise and Mental Health
Exercise can help prevent or manage a wide range of diseases; these may include methodic syndrome,...
Changing Habits One Step at a Time
Six steps to healthier living in Reston, Washington DC, and Bethesda – let life and wellness coaching and...
Myths, Illusions, and Solutions: Relationship Pitfalls and Saboteurs
At a Caring Approach, Couples Counseling in Bethesda, MD by Dr. Durana, we help couples develop relationship...
Tools, skills and resources for relationship success and satisfaction
A Caring Approach offers couples counseling and marriage counseling in Reston, VA, Washington, DC, and...
Disruptive Relationship Cycles In Distressed Couples
Traps and Exits We all have vulnerabilities, sensitivities or wounds that are inevitably triggered in...
Basic Issues Underlying Relationship Problems
At A Caring Approach in Bethesda, we work with couples and families to decrease stress, and to improve...
Exploring Personal Beliefs in Counseling
Our experience of reality is determined by the beliefs that we hold about ourselves and the world. Beliefs...
About A Caring Approach
Dr. Durana draws on a wide variety of successful psychotherapeutic methods when working with patients. A combination of holistic therapeutic services may be needed to confront the challenges in your life, and A Caring Approach will help you create your own wellness strategy using methods to manage your progress.
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