Ken Thom
MS, LPC
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Christian Counselor-Children with Challenging Behaiors and Trauma Expert
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- Main Areas
- Christian Counsleing, Trauma, Children, Families
- Best Sellers
- Christian Parent Wsidom
- Career Focus
- Assisting families heal
- Affiliation
- Post Institute
Ken Thom, MS, LPC is a nationally recognized Christian counselor and writer who uses Scripture and Biblical truths along with the Post Institute Stress Model to put love into action to heal relationships. Ken has just released his new book, Christian Parent Wisdom, and is co-author with Bryan Post of the upcoming book, Creating Healing for Challenging Children During Challenging Times. Ken is a Certified Behavior Breakdown Coach, a Certified Family Centered Regulatory Therapist, a great Behavior Breakdown Master Instructor, and a Certified BCI Parent Trainer. Services include: individual and parent phone coaching, monthly Christian Parents’ Support Conference Call, individual and family counseling, workshops and trainings, free monthly newsletter. Ken has over 25 years of experience dealing with alcohol and drug addiction; sexual, physical and emotional abuse; mood disorders; ADHD and other behavioral disorder; and marital problems.
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FEAR AND PARENTING
I am challenged on a daily basis to help families identify their own fears. Many times this is not an easy task because we are so resistant to admitting that we are afraid. We are conditioned to not experience fear. Fear is not an acceptable emotion in our society. Men are supposed to be strong and not show emotions. Women are perceived as weak and unable to take care of themselves if they are afraid. We live in an emotionally suppressed and emotionally phobic society.
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Adoption Is A Family Love Affair
November is Adoption Awareness Month, so it seems appropriate that I share with you about one of my success stories, Trey.
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Back to School Resources
Believe it or not, school is just around the corner. Back to school sales have been going on for several weeks. Letters have arrived in the mail with dates for orientation and enrollment. Children and parents alike have mixed feelings about returning to school. Returning to school can be traumatic for children with challenging behaviors. I always encourage parents to get an early start on monitoring how their child is doing in school. Prevention and early intervention are the keys to success.
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Being a Mother
Mother's Day is just around the corner. This is a time of family gatherings to celebrate mothers. Family traditions of cookouts, picnics and dining out are fairly common. It goes without saying; mothers play a very important role in our lives. Many articles and books have been written about this. There is a tremendous amount of research about being a mother. It has been dissected from every angle and from numerous counseling theories. Attachment theory says that Infants form attachments to any consistent caregiver who is sensitive and responsive in social interactions with them.
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Being a Mother
It goes without saying; mothers play a very important role in our lives. Many articles and books have been written about this. There is a tremendous amount of research about being a mother. It has been dissected from every angle and from numerous counseling theories. Attachment theory says that Infants form attachments to any consistent caregiver who is sensitive and responsive in social interactions with them. The quality of the social engagement is more influential than the amount of time spent.
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Being A Father
Another Father's Day has passed. This was a time of family gatherings to celebrate fathers. Family traditions of cookouts, picnics, sports, and dining out are fairly common. I believe that the role of fathers has been diminished over time. There’s been an evolution of his earlier role of going out and killing the beast for supper to being more involved emotionally. Numerous articles and books have been written about this. There is a tremendous amount of research about being a father. It has been dissected from every angle and from numerous counseling theories.
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A Breath of Life
A narrative is a story or an account of an event. Jesus taught by telling parables to illustrate his moral attitudes and religious principles. I use narratives in family regulatory therapy and find them very effective.
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Understanding Discipline
I believe that our parenting model comes from God, who carries the bulk of the work for us as parents. God's love for us drew us into relationship with him, and I contend that this loving relationship then influenced us into obedience to Him. We work toward and remain in obedience because we do not want to lose relationship with God. Even when we are not obedient that relationship is still there for us. God never withdraws his love. This is how God teaches us to have and be in relationship through mind, body, and spirit regulation.
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Jesus is the Gift of Relationship
Around this time of year there are all kinds of catchy phrases. Jesus is the “reason for the season” is the one that immediately pops into my mind. Another one from the past is “What Would Jesus Do?”. I feel like this trivializes Jesus and is either seasonal or just trendy. Jesus should be what we are all about, every day of the year. Jesus is the spiritual basis for family regulatory therapy, a body/mind model of therapy that I use in my practice.
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The Power of Presence - Being Mindful
Being 'present,' what does that mean? On the surface, it obviously means that you are here, physically here. Students are either present or absent when roll is taken at school. After roll is taken and lunch orders turned in, the teacher then has the task of getting the students really present.
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Fear Versus Faith
I finished writing my first book not too long ago. I found it difficult identifying what my expectations were since I’ve never done this before. The entire process of getting the book in print and to being in your hands was an emotional roller coaster. I had to keep reminding myself “process Ken, remember process.” At times it seemed like every step of the way was a challenge. The lack of faith questions that I kept asking were: “Why this?” or ‘What now?”
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Love, Conscience, Faith
Remember that relationships and love are not events, they are processes. Loving our children and others can bring many challenges. Challenges cause us to want other people to change. We need to be courageous and look inside ourselves whenever we think someone else needs to change. 1 Timothy 1:5, “The goal of this command is love which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.”
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I incorporate the stress model in my holistic family based treatment approach. Regardless of diagnoses or presenting problems, the stress model is applicable. I find it to be a highly effective and efficient paradigm to help individuals and families heal. The process helps individual and families address the underlying interactive dynamics of the entire family. I help families understand the essence of love. I stress the importance of loving yourself to parents before they can help their children. Using baby steps, the stress model helps individual and families face their fears and begin processing their trauma. My approach is not therapy resolution, but integration of their trauma so that it is not as intrusive in their lives. Their trauma eventually becomes an asset from which they can grow and develop new strengths and truths about themselves. I incorporate God’s word through out the therapy process to insure lasting results
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Ken Thom
e-mail: thomklt@embarqmail.com
address: 515 West Cooper, Maryville, MO 64468
telephone: 660-562-2531
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