Individual Counseling

Dear Visitors to My Website,

Let me invite you to take full advantage of my own experiences in life, my personal quest for excellence as well as my schooling in psychology. Though my ongoing studying, classes, reading and exploring I continuously adopt and perfect new counseling techniques. My resources in understanding people and relationships are constantly renewed with the plethora of new knowledge and writings available every year in this pioneering profession of psychology.

THE NINE ENNEAGRAM TYPES: I started the trainings to qualify for the Enneagram Institute Certification. And, so far (starting in February 2013) I am more impressed with the Enneagram and the generous people associated with The Enneagram Institute than ever. Using this instrument for over twenty years has proven to be the most accurate and powerful tool for my skills and my clients. I always recommend that a new client or couple take the full-length version of the RHETI online for their first session. It just costs $12 on The Enneagram Institute website.

BOOKS: Here are a few of my current favorite resources.

“The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types” by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson.

Diana West’s well-researched book: “The Death of the Grown-up: How America’s Arrested Development is Bringing Down Western Civilization.”

“Awakening the Heroes Within” by Carol Pearson. This is a practical and fascinating guide to The Hero’s Journey with The Heroic Myth Index to help you determine which of the twelve stages are active in your life.

Some of my work has taken me into teaching a synthesis of archetypes (or roles) from the private and the personal (see my  exercise identifying your unconscious life script which evolved from your childhood hero(s), to the cultural and universal (see Spiral Dynamics).

I designed this website to be useful to you even if you can’t come to see me in person in my office in Richardson / Dallas, Texas. I hope that you discover something here that helps you improve your quality of life.

I welcome you to contact me anytime. Simply call 214-636-5889.

My best to you!
-Heather

BRIEF BIO: Heather Carlile’s professionalism as a Licensed Professional Counselor is marked by openmindedness, gentle concern, insightful understanding, a sense of humor and practical solutions. Ms. Carlile sees her clients as having the capacity for self-direction and the ability to solve their own problems. Her therapeutic goal is to assist achievement of practical improvements in the lives of her clients according to their individual needs. She treats adults, couples and groups for depression relief, childhood trauma, relationship improvement and grief resolution. She has a special ability to draw out her clients’ strength and wisdom.

Heather’s model for human empowerment balances six interdependent areas for health: physical, instinctual, emotional, mental, spiritual and relational. She advocates that some segments of society currently over-values mental or intellectual or physical/athletic aspects, thereby neglecting mature, balanced experience and expression on the other levels of being.

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You can visit my YouTube Channel and learn from my over 90 videos.

Simply visit: youtube.com/heathercarlile

List of Topics

Counseling:

1. Get Your Education and Knowledge
2. Using Your Good Judgement
3. Styles of Self Sabotage
4. Breaking Bad Habits
5. Can-Do Attitude
6. Motivation and Self-Discipline
7. Action and Persistence
8. LifeStyle Design Guide
9. The Passion Locator I
10. The Passion Locator II
11. Awaken Old Dreams
12. Keeping Our Teens On Track
13. Enmeshed with Parents
14. Forgiveness
15. Life Scripts from Role Models
16. Coping with Our Saboteur
17. Purpose & Mission
18. Avoid Sabotaging Your Goals
19. LifeStyle Design – 1. Health & 2. Belonging
20. LifeStyle Design – 3. Sense of Self
21. LifeStyle Design – 4. Enthusiasm!
22. LifeStyle Design – 5. Personal Power
23. LifeStyle Design – 6. Standards & Spirit
24. Making Magic Moments for Holidays
25. Recipes for Happiness
26. Holiday Stress
27. Emotional Intelligence Part 1 to 3
28. Boundaries
29. Grief Recovery
30. The Six Styles of Stressing
31. Creating Outcomes
32. Mental Agility
33. Healthy Lifestyle

Marriage Counseling:

1. Happiness
2. Stop Arguing
3. Expressing Love
4. Infidelity Help
5. Fertility Issues
6. Rebuilding Trust
7. Sexual Intimacy
8. Romantic Bond
9. Arouse Romance
10. Ways We Lose Romance
11. No.1 Cause of Divorce
12. Men and Trust
13. Gender Love Needs
14. Gender Differences
15. Creating Happiness Part I and Part II
16. Romantic Bond
17. EQ and Fighting Nice
18. Best Friends
19. Common Values
20. Know Yourself
21. Cushion Statements
22. Friends & Lovers: Deep Friendship
23. Common Sense Communication
24. Listening Skills: Paying Attention. 1)
25. Listening Skills: 2) and 3)
26. Listening Skills: 4) and 5)
27. Listening Skills: 6) and 7)
28. Expressing Skills: 1) and 2)
29. Expressing: 3)The Five Tantrums
30. Expressing Skills: 4) and 5)
31. Love