Chrysalis Counseling Center, LLC

06/15/2026

Many couples spend most of their conversations talking about responsibilities, schedules, and everything that keeps life moving.
The Express Yourself Check-In is a simple way to create space for a different kind of conversation.
Questions like:
What's been bringing you energy lately?
What's something you miss doing just for yourself?
What's something you've been feeling but haven't really said out loud?
According to Gottman research, emotional intimacy grows when partners continue sharing their inner world with each other. Not just what's happening around them, but what's happening within them.
This month's Love Notes includes the complete Express Yourself Check-In, along with a guided 10-minute exercise designed to help couples reconnect through curiosity, understanding, and conversation.
Sign up here: https://bit.ly/4g0CwVT

05/22/2026

SCHEDULING NOW!!! 515-259-1093
🦋Please help us welcome, FARAH PROEFROCK, MSW to our team!!!
🦋Farah offers in person and Telehealth sessions in Iowa for individuals ages 5+
🦋Farah is client centered, strengths based and incorporates art and play therapy elements.
🦋CONTACT Farah at:
[email protected]
(515) 259-1093
🦋From Farah “I specialize in working with children (ages 5+) and adolescents, with a special passion for supporting middle schoolers through the challenges of this important transitional stage. I believe that every child deserves to feel heard, understood, and valued in a safe, supportive space.”
For Farah’s full bio www.chrysalis-counseling-center.com

05/22/2026

SCHEDULING NOW!!!

🦋Please help us welcome, FARAH PROEFROCK, LMSW to our team!!!
🦋Farah offers in person and Telehealth sessions in Iowa for individuals ages 5+
🦋Farah is client centered, strengths based and incorporates art and play therapy elements.

🦋CONTACT Farah at:
[email protected]
(515) 259-1093

🦋From Farah “I specialize in working with children (ages 5+) and adolescents, with a special passion for supporting middle schoolers through the challenges of this important transitional stage. I believe that every child deserves to feel heard, understood, and valued in a safe, supportive space.”

For Farah’s full bio www.chrysalis-counseling-center.com

05/19/2026

Feelings first, for everyone.

Children learn emotional safety by watching us.
When we give ourselves permission to feel, we give them permission too.

05/19/2026

Not all issues that show up in relationships are a relationship issue - sometimes they are an individual issue.

It’s important that your therapist is able to discern the difference.

Thanks Dr. Gottman for pointing out this important truth!

05/12/2026

We are grateful to be there for you. We know how heavy and hard and difficult it is to sit with you in your heartache and pain - and it does affect us, and we choose this because you matter. And we know that you need someone to bear witness and we are absolutely grateful that we get to do this work. We are truly honored you choose to allow us to enter the sacred spaces of your lives.

05/08/2026

Parents, some practical insight into a child’s behavior.

05/05/2026

One of the most common misunderstandings about limits is confusing them with demands, ultimatums, or control. A limit is about what you need and what you will do. It's not about dictating what your partner does.

Telling them to stop something is a demand. Threatening to leave if they don't change is an ultimatum. Controlling who they see is not a limit, it's control. These things might come from a real and valid need, but they're not the same thing as a healthy limit.

A real limit says "I need this" not "you must do this."

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05/03/2026

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