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Keeping the Spark In Your Relationship - Couples Advice from Therapist Donnella Lincoln - AZRI
Therapy & Counseling Tips

Keeping the Spark Alive

I’ve always thought of butterflies as a mixture of excitement and anxiety. Butterflies flutter when you’re standing onstage right before performing in a big show, right before jumping out of an airplane, or right before going on a first or second date with someone you really, really like.

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What Is Bilateral Stimulation - AZRI
EMDR

What Is Bilateral Stimulation?

Bilateral stimulation is simply an alternating sound, sight, or feeling that you experience. Bilateral Stimulation is the base mechanism used in EMDR Therapy. In short, you practice dealing with the triggers of depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues, and over time you become de-sensitized to the triggers.

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Therapy Plus Integrated Care for Chronic Illness in Arizona - AZRI
Integrated Health

Therapy + Integrated Care for Chronic Illness

Chronic Illness is extremely common in the United States, with 60% of adults having at least 1 chronic disease, and 40% of adults have 2 or more chronic diseases. It is so important to not only treat the medical and physical health symptoms of chronic illness, but also to treat the mental aspects of living with chronic illness.

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Therapist and Doctor for Pain and Discomfort During Sex - Sexual Pain Doctor
Sex Therapy

Therapy and Doctor for Sexual Pain and Discomfort

  Many young men and women are confused or scared about pain during or after sex, and are not sure what to do. We wanted to make sure that everyone has the basic information on what to do if you have problems with pain or discomfort during or after sexual

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Infidelity

Overcoming The Trauma of Infidelity And Betrayal

  Anyone who has been cheated-on knows the deep pain that infidelity causes. Cheating is a betrayal that cuts deep and scars a person mentally and emotionally for years. In 2024, we now know the importance of treating trauma and traumatic experiences in order to keep positive mental health. We

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AZ Therapy Blog - The Therapist's Toolkit - Crafting Meaningful Goals for the New Year
Self Care

The Therapist’s Toolkit: Crafting Meaningful Goals for the New Year

As the New Year approaches, we are sure to hear “New Year, New You”. You may even be hearing this from yourself. This is the year!!! The year you are going to lose weight, get your finances in order, good back to school…Get your life together. While it is not uncommon to want to set goals for the new year, it is uncommon to still be working or holding to those goals come mid-March.

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Therapy & Counseling Tips

Ringing in the New Year

Arizona Relationship Institute are here for you and excited to help you reach all your goals, in the new year, and always. As we close out 2023 and prepare to welcome in 2024, we are excited about our plans to continue to growth of AZRI in line with our values of offering the highest levels of relational therapy to Arizona residents and continuing to provide training and education to therapists, old and new.

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Self Care

The Gift of Boundaries

If you’re wondering how to assert yourself and still make the nice list, here at AZRI, we can help with a boundary script. Including each of these components into your dialogue increases your chances of your boundary being understood and respected since you will be mindfully and respectfully providing as much information as possible.

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Male Therapists or Female Therapists - Which Is Better For Your Needs - AZRI - Arizona Relationship Institute
Therapy & Counseling Tips

Male Therapists or Female Therapists? Which Is Better For Your Needs?

Our best advice is to be open-minded to a therapist who DOES NOT share the same gender as you, especially for emotional, mental, and intimacy therapy. Breakthroughs in therapy happen when you see your problems from a different perspective and are able to take-action to resolve those problems. Breakthroughs are harder to attain if you are staying only in your comfort zone versus seeing your problem from all different sides.

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What Is Polyvagal Theory for Therapists and Therapy
Therapy & Counseling Tips

What is Polyvagal Theory?

The Polyvagal Theory theorizes that an Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) not only acts as an autopilot for the body, but suggests to us how we should consciously react to situations. Simply-put, the idea is that our nervous system has a “mind of its own” and regulates our mental and physical health. It does this without the brain and our consciousness being aware that it is happening.

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