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Hello, My name is Dr. Jeri Ellis. I am a licensed professional counselor in the state of Georgia. I think that people depending on their worldview, their culture, their faith, their religion, spirituality, have labels they have to consider, like, you know, I failed, I’m no good, no one’s ever going to love me. I mean, there’s some pretty common statements that you hear. And so helping people to kind of process, where’s that coming from? What does that mean to you? So sometimes people have those experiences in their family. So they’ve seen it. They may have seen a really bad example, but they may have also seen a better example of what it’s like to get through a divorce and come out the other end amicably. And that would be a goal.
And you know, I hate for anyone to really go into a situation with so much self loathing, self, you know, just coming in and beating themselves up. It’s okay to feel sad. It is sad. If they’re children, then there are those kind of issues and you know, just the whole process of going through legal actions, there’s just a lot of stuff that’s going on. And just being a place as a counselor where that person can talk about it, try to understand where those emotions are coming from and how they can manage it is very important.
