Connie’s Gifts- Interactive Books and Collectibles. Got Challenges? Book 3

About the Book

The author painted this portrait in high school. She added painting in the book to demonstrate utilizing your resources to meet your needs.

About the Author

Constance Jackson is a Licensed Professional Counselor, whose completed a Master’s Degree in Education with a specialization in Community Counseling and successfully passed the National Counseling Exam (NCE). She is qualified to counsel under the guidelines of Texas States Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors. Her formal education was received at U of H- Main and University of Houston- Victoria. Work experience includes: Schools, Day Programs, Community Centers, Hospitals (In-patient and Out-patient settings). She has helped hundreds of individual and families through conducting individual, group, family and couple’s therapy. Work Experience As of 2021, Counselor Jackson has worked 36 years in MH/ IDD (Mental Health/ Intellectual and Development Disabilities) Services. She has worked in private practice, various health care settings as a Behavior Intervention Specialist, Voc. Habilitation Manager, and Counselor/ Therapist/ LPHA/ Clinical Treatment Director of a Residential Treatment Center, all with the purpose of supporting and assisting individuals and their families. Lastly, Jackson has experience working with persons of varied ethnic, racial, sexual orientation, and religious backgrounds. Her goal and purpose are solely to help those she can help, when others have turned them away. Her moto, “Being, If I do not help, who will. So, I will try.” So many people are in pain, some due to past and present events. Some have been harmed through generational trauma, but there is hope. Jackson’s goal is to help our children and their parent/ families to heal and ease the pain to achieve their own personal goals. Theory of Counseling Counselor Jackson adhere to a combination of three framework of theories: CBT, REBT, and Solution Focus. 1). For CBT, developed by Dr. Aaron Beck. Cognitive Behavior Therapy focusing on the interconnection of your thoughts, behavior and feelings and how they affect the other. The goal is to reframe those thoughts for a more positive perspective. 2). The Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) approach to counseling, developed by Albert Ellis. This means we will be focusing on the here and now, not past or future event, refuting irrational thought and beliefs. (REBT) also focuses on educational and learning processes. Learning or teaching individuals new thoughts and behaviors patterns, resulting in possible resolution to the problem that brought you here today. 3). and Solution- Focus realm, developed by (Shazer & Berg) techniques may be used to reinforce successes and assist the client in gaining self-confidence and self-awareness with a clear focus of the client being the expert over their lives, and working within their own story; working to assist individuals to find alternatives to a more fulfilling life. The goal of therapy and the illustration is to reach self-awareness through an evidence-based approach. In this illustration the author will provide you with additional information and interactive exercises, to take home that will hopefully assist you in the home, school and communicating setting, if consistently applied. This illustration does not make guarantees, but to offer hope for a better life and to reach goals.