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Nutrition

December 31, 2025/

How Nutrition & Lifestyle Impact Your Mental Health (And What You Can Do Today) Nutrition & Lifestyle Mental health isn’t only in the mind — it’s in the body, lifestyle, environment, and relationships too. At Restoring Minds Counseling, we take all of these into account because science shows they’re deeply...

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December 29, 2025/

5 Signs You Might Benefit From Counseling (And What To Expect With Liesl) Benefit From Counseling You might think “Counseling isn’t for me.” But therapy isn’t just for a crisis. Benefit from Counseling— is for anyone feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected from their best life. Body — 5 Common Signs...

Integrative Therapy Puzzle pieces of Mental Health

November 22, 2025/

Heal with Integrative Therapy Healing Begins With Understanding: What Integrative Therapy is and Why It Works Have you ever tried “traditional therapy” but felt something was still missing? At Restoring Minds Counseling, we believe healing goes beyond talk therapy — it begins with understanding you in your whole context: mind,...

Mediterranean food plates

October 2, 2025/

Learn How to Conquer your Depression with the Mediterranean Diet Mediterranean food is one of the healthiest foods you can eat for your overall physical and mental health. It is considered part of an antiinflammatory diet. Mediterranean food consists of nutritious whole food vegetables, legumes, healthy fats and proteins. These...

Couples Therapy

September 15, 2025/

Celebrate your great decision making — Couples Therapy Families Finding Your Path Together:   Liesl Geschke and Restoring Minds Counseling‘s Hands-On Approach to Relationships and Wellness The story of a healthier, more connected relationship often begins with a single step. For many couples and families in the Vancouver, WA, and Portland,...

Couples Day

August 19, 2025/

National Couples Day Celebrate National Couples Day — and Every Day in Between August 18th is National Couples Day, a wonderful reminder to pause and celebrate the most important partnership in your life—the one you share with your significant other. Whether you’ve been together for decades or are just beginning...

Custom Therapy For Couples

August 19, 2025/

Custom Therapy For Couples Restoring Minds Counseling in Vancouver, WA offers a unique approach to couples counseling, blending individual and joint sessions to foster deeper understanding and improve relationship dynamics.  Therapy hybrid approach Individual Sessions: These sessions provide a safe space for each partner to delve into their individual contributions...

Counseling in Vancouver Wa

August 4, 2025/

Counseling in Vancouver, WA – Restoring Minds Counseling Beyond talk therapy: — Find rapid healing with Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) in Vancouver, WA Many individuals in Vancouver, WA, seeking mental health support often feel stuck in traditional therapy, making slow progress, especially when dealing with deeply rooted trauma or chronic...

Best Therapy

July 10, 2025/

Best Therapy Compared The idea of therapy is interesting! If you are curious but new to therapy ideas we hope you will like the following introduction to three types of therapy offered at Restoring Minds Counseling. The ​C​ity of Minds: A Story of Three Wise Guides Once upon a time, in a...

Restoring Minds through Counseling Get your ducks in a row

May 24, 2025/

Current Trends Restoring Minds through Counseling Restoring Minds Counseling is charged by the most sought after and the current trends in mental health counseling. We adapt using a multi-faceted approach to your goals and desires. Your therapy is customized based on each individual. Each of us have specific needs and...

Accelerated Resolution Therapy

May 24, 2025/

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is a relatively new psychotherapy approach that’s gaining attention as an evidence-based treatment for trauma and stress-related disorders, including PTSD, depression, and resilience. It’s known for being brief (typically 1-5 sessions) and less reliant on homework or extensive skills practice. Accelerated Resolution...

How to Get Your Wife to Respect You

May 2, 2025/

Offering small gestures making you both feel special.   (Wisdom from “Love and Respect” by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs) Do you ever feel that your wife doesn’t respect you?  Maybe she has become controlling or critical.  Does she ever tell you how to drive or what to wear or how to...

Why doesn’t my husband appreciate me?

April 22, 2025/

Offering small gestures making you both feel special. Husband Appreciation Day When you first got married, did you think to yourself, “I want to be the best wife I can be and then I will have an amazing and romantic marriage”? You worked hard to keep the house clean and...

Fiber Fueled

April 22, 2025/

Fiber Fueled:  Plant Diversity is Key to Good Mental Health I’m sure you’ve heard of the gut/brain connection. Current research has proved that when our gut is healthy, our brain and mind are healthy.  This is because they have discovered that the gut produces 95% of our neurotransmitters such as...

Anxiety

April 22, 2025/

5 Tips to Manage an Anxiety Attack Anxiety can cause a variety of physical symptoms Our brains create anxiety to protect us from dangerous situations. This is part of the fight, flight and freeze mechanism that is so important for situations where you may be in danger. Unfortunately, chronic worry...

Stress Hacks

April 22, 2025/

A Review Of Two Stress Management Tools that People Are Raving About Stress Management in Management or Anywhere Everyone seems to be under massive amounts of stress these days.  From the constant doomsday reports on the news to our hyper scheduled yet sedentary lifestyles can leave us feeling frazzled and...

Accelerated Resolution Therapy

April 22, 2025/

A quick and easy solution for PTSD, Trauma and more Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is an exciting, quick and easy form of psychotherapy that helps people suffering from traumatic experiences such as sexual trauma, assault, or combat, PTSD and other difficult emotional and psychological problems like anxiety, panic attacks, OCD,...

4 Ways to Improve Communication in Your Relationship

April 22, 2025/

Enjoy improved communication in your relationship. Active Listening. Use “I” to express feelings. Pick a time and place. Be mindful of your nonverbal cues. Best 4 Ways to Improve Communication When a couple comes to see me for relationship counseling, one of the most common things they tell me is...

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