Lives Changed Through Counseling

Family Renewal Center

Individuals or Couples Struggling with Anger, Anxiety, or High-Functioning Autism

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Individual Therapy

Understanding your relationship with yourself, your career, and those around you
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Couples Therapy

Your marriage is different because you think different, act different, and ARE different than other people

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Family Therapy

Support is available for parents of children with Asperger’s Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism

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Julie Swanberg-Hjelm, PhD, LMFT, LMHC

Couple & Individual Therapist
“I believe that therapy is a time to discover a new way of living. It allows you to create opportunities in your life, your relationships, and your future.” –Julie Hjelm

Julie’s PhD focused on the relationship between trauma, the childhood home, and the maturity level reached as an adult. Her work helps adults understand how situations that occurred during their childhood could continue to stop them from developing solid relationships with other people, make tough decisions, and have a better life outcome. This research can help parents understand how to manage the anxiety that occurs when their child is suffering from trauma. Her goal is to help adults reduce the influence trauma has in their lives and their children’s lives.

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Signs You Could Benefit from Counseling

Individual

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Do you find yourself responding in anger?

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Is your anxiety keeping you from enjoying your life?

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Are people around you not able to understand the "real" you?

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Do you end up in the same situation regardless of how hard you try to fix it?

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Does trauma keep you from changing your life?

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Is working in a high-tech job interfering in your relationships?

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Are you an engineer who doesn't understand people?

Couple

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Is your partner frustrating you?

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Do you wish your partner would just fix it?

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Do you or your partner have High-Functioning Autism (Asperger's syndrome)?

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Are one of you an engineer or work in the high-tech world?

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Are there things you can't talk to your partner about?

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Do you ask yourself why you keep fighting for the relationship?

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Have you tried other therapy and it didn't help?