Growing into well being

As a psychologist, Dr. Allender works with individuals, groups, couples, families, businesses and organizations. Some of the areas Dr. Allender can facilitate include:

  • Gender Issues
  • Industrial/Organizational
  • Professional and personal coaching
  • Disabled and Disabilities
  • Self-Directed Search
  • Depression
  • Stress
  • Relaxation
  • Premarital Relations
  • Separation and Divorce
  • Mediation
  • Children



Dr. Allender's goal is to teach the importance of the inter-relationship of communication, stress reduction, diet in everyday living and to provide a foundation of skills that will aid clients to become more independent and successful in their homes and work environments. 
These goals are achieved through:

  • Consultation
  • Therapy
  • Testing and Evaluation
  • Education and Training
  • Workshops and Seminars
  • e-Therapy
  • Coaching
  • Pet Therapy



Planting the seeds
Whether you are an individual or part of a group session, Dr. Allender can help you achieve growth through the use of some of the most up-to-date psychological methods. Dr. Allender will help you:

  • Get in touch with the problem
  • Learn communication skills
  • Give and receive feedback
  • Set realistic goals
  • Evaluate and respond to others' needs and demands
  • Deal with anger and hostility
  • Handle stress
  • Problem Solving
  • Conflict Resolution



For business and organizations, other issues include:

  • Time management
  • Leadership
  • Power and authority
  • Staff development
  • Leadership training
  • Goal setting
  • Action plans
  • Gender in the Workplace
  • Stress Reduction
  • Mainstreaming the disabled and chronically ill




New roles: new goals

The roles of men and women in society have changed. Dr. Allender specializes in helping women and men identify these new roles so they can better cope with the added pressures of home, family, chronic illness, disabilities and the workplace.

 

 

Professional Publications



KIDS CONCERNS
Julie Ann Allender, Ed.D., Ibstitam S. Barakat, Ed.D., and Valerie Koski, ISW. The Perfection Learning Corporation, Logan, Iowa. 1996.


KIDS CONCERNS is a tool to help teachers, parents, and children learn to talk more about important emotional topics that affect children at home and at school. The children are then encouraged to talk about their problems with their family or teachers. Each card centers on a specific topic such as divorce, conflict resolution, making friends, or being lost and many more. KIDS CONCERNS helps a child to reach out for help in this confusing and difficult 
world.

 


END OF MY ROPE - Gender Cooperation Model.
by Julie Ann Allender, Ed.D.
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 History and skill building for helping men and women of all ages understand changes from traditional relationships to the newer Gender Cooperation Model where both individuals work and seek more cooperative solutions.

 


Chronic Illness- Healing the Wounded Heart
by Julie Ann Allender, Ed.D.
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Update of the first book "End of My Rope" from the point of view of being chronically ill. It explains the problems and challenges in achieving the gender cooperation model with the additional problem that encompasses chronic illness.


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