Isabel B. Kirk, MA

Isabel Kirk is a bilingual mental health counselor psychotherapist offering individual and group services in the Washington DC metropolitan area and distance counseling (online and phone).

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    Co-dependency: Bad, Good or Both?

    Are you familiar with the term codependency? Have you ever been labeled codependent? If so, it probably didn’t leave you with a good feeling. The term has developed a negative connotation that implies needy, clingy, and even sick.
    I believe the term might be, very often, mistakenly used or not defined with total accuracy. The term [...]

    Love…What is it all about? That’s the question

    In this month when we celebrate love, I wonder what we are celebrating and what love is all about. Love…what’s love? That is the question.  A word that causes the biggest happiness but can also cause the biggest misery in our lives, especially when we don’t know what it means, misuse it to achieve personal [...]

    A little bit of Empathy

    Every human being needs and benefits from satisfactoring human relations in every area of life. Your emotional well-being will depend largely on the capacity you have to achieve this objective. In 328 BC, Aristotle said humans are social animals. Today more and more evidence is showing that humans are born to connect with one another.

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    Forgiveness: How and Why

    Forgiveness is one of the most difficult things to do, but also one of the most needed in the world. There are many people full of anger toward themselves or towards others. Forgiveness involves letting go, surrendering judgment and condemnation while engaging in a self-healing journey. It is not about the person that inflicted pain but [...]

    Everybody is Different

     
    The world is inhabited by millions of people, some of whom share similar opinions and values, and some of whom don’t. Diversity of culture, race, values, politics, body shape and size, sexuality and religion – to name a few – is what makes us individuals.

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    Healthy Boundaries – Healthy Relationships

    Relationships are a beautiful thing but they can also be challenging. I love a cartoon that reads as follow: “Relationships: a mess worth making.” It very well illustrates how many times relationships can be messy or unhealthy. The main cause of unhealthy relationships? Unhealthy boundaries. When talking about relationships we are talking about psychological boundaries. [...]