Bounce Back: Develop Your Resiliency

About Bobbi Emel, MFT

by John M. Grohol, Psy.D.
December 29, 2011

About Bobbi Emel, MFTBounce Back is focused on helping a person understand and build more resiliency in their own life. Some of the tools and topics that will be covered in this blog include:

  • Learning acceptance
  • Gaining perspective
  • Looking for the hidden gifts in seeming adversity
  • Learning not to resist
  • Becoming comfortable with failure including seeing the lessons it provides
  • Ways to increase/develop your social system
  • Being okay with where you are

And a whole host of other practical tools, skills, and concepts.

Bobbi Emel is a Los Altos therapist, speaker and author. She has worked in the counseling field for 20 years and has been a licensed marriage and family therapist since 1994. Bobbi has a special understanding about grief and loss due to the death of her partner in 2004. From this experience, she also learned how to develop resiliency and make the best of times out of the worst of times.

Bobbi works with individual adults to help them bounce back from depression, anxiety, and whatever life throws at them. She is also interested in facilitating the growth of power, passion, and purpose in people who are looking to maximize their potential.

Take a look at this 90-second video to hear Bobbi talk about her approach to therapy, Core Gifts, and her favorite moment with clients.

 

 

Recent Comments
  • Bobbi Emel, MFT: Hi Sonjia, That’s great you are going to start a DBT group! When you meet with your therapist,...
  • sonjia: I am very interested to read this book. I had a fair amount of childhood trauma and feel stuck. I have heard...
  • Bobbi Emel, MFT: I’m so sorry for all of your troubles! I hope the future is brighter for you.
  • funygrl: My father had a fatal heart attack. 3 days later I had the beginning of a nervous breakdown &...
  • Bobbi Emel, MFT: I agree, Alicia, acts of kindness truly should be deliberate!
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