Heal & Grow for ACoAs

SPECIALTY:
Recovery for ACoAs (adult-children of alcoholics, abusers, abandoners & other narcissistic families).

WEBSITE: http://www.acoarecovery.com
BLOG: acoarecovery.wordpress.com
(2010 - 2014 : over 400 posts!)

MODALITIES: Family Sy...stems & Gestalt Theories, Inner Child Work, Rational Emotive Therapy, Transactional Analysis, Dream Interpretation & Alanon experience.

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DONNA M TORBICO can help ACoAs learn to:

* Believe in your personal truth & say "I KNOW WHAT I KNOW" !

* Identify & change harmful limiting beliefs ("I'll never be loved", "Other people's needs are more important than mine", "If I don't like it I have to stay")

* Experience painful emotions in a safe way : say soothing things to yourself, get anger out but
NOT AT people, visualize the emotions & improve the outcome

* Improve your personal boundaries & self esteem : have permission to say what you want & don't want, and limit contact with/ or leave unkind, inappropriate people

*Practice new ways to communicate in all types of relationships: make simple, declarative statements ("I am going to...", "I'm not available", "That's not helpful", "So?... I'd love to....") and -- don't lie, justify or over-explain

* Have permission to relax, do things you enjoy, be creative, have FUN!

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25 yrs in Private Practice.
Individual & Couples Therapy, In person or by phone

FREE Consultation - to see if we 're a good match.

"NURTURE YOURSELF to HEAL & GROW!" - always be kind to your Inner Child.
It will change your life!

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TESTIMONIAL
Historians indicate significant eras using markers such as A.D. and B.C.  To indicate - the most critical turn in the events of MY life - the very moment when my good fortune and karma began -
I would use the marker D.T. (Donna Torbico).

For the first 44 years of my life I suffered and struggled through life -  the life of an Adult-Child in the world without recovery.  Although I had been in therapy on & off, it wasn't until I took a workshop with Donna that my real work of healing began. 

For some lucky children, the relationship they engender with their healthy parents and other family members provides them a clear, positive map of the world. It is through this steady, unconditional love & moral example that these children thrive and grow into secure adults, capable of negotiating the stresses & joys of life.  

I did not have that kind of beginning. Until I found myself in Donna's workshop 12 years ago, I believed that I had caused my mother and father to neglect & abuse me, so I spent the remainder of those 44 years aligning my mind and behavior with their cruel messages. 

But that was before the critical moment in my life : D.T.
In weekly sessions with Donna, I have learned a new language - the language of Recovery. I no longer believe the relationship I had with my family is the most valid one in my life, albeit it was the most destructive.  The work we have done together is nothing less than a kind of transpersonal / spiritual brain and heart surgery. 

I believe that our Higher Power works through great healers, and through their wisdom we have the possibility to heal from parental abuse - by retraining our thinking, learning to trust and love, changing our behavior patterns & finding safe, healthy relationships.

Through the sacred relationship I've had with my great healer, Donna, a profound emotional & spiritual path has unfolded for me.
I am forever grateful for her teachings that have created a sane, positive & useful map of the world. 
L.S., Long Island, NY Read More