Telka Arend-Ritter LMSW

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    • #2 Telka's Stress Tools
    • #3 Anxiety & Depression
    • #4 Anger Tools
    • #5 Relationship Tools
    • #6 Self- Esteem
  • Mental Help Videos
    • #1 Stress Videos
    • #3 Anxiety Videos
    • #3-a OCD Videos
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    • #6 Relationship Videos
    • #7 Parenting Videos
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    • About
    • Services
      • Services
      • FAQ
    • Mental Help Tools
      • #1 Basic Tools
      • #2 Telka's Stress Tools
      • #3 Anxiety & Depression
      • #4 Anger Tools
      • #5 Relationship Tools
      • #6 Self- Esteem
    • Mental Help Videos
      • #1 Stress Videos
      • #3 Anxiety Videos
      • #3-a OCD Videos
      • #4 Depression,grief video
      • #5 Anger Videos
      • #6 Relationship Videos
      • #7 Parenting Videos
    • Resources & Trainings
      • Local Resources
      • Telka's Talks

Email: Therapy@TelkaArend-Ritter.com

Telka Arend-Ritter LMSW

Telka Arend-Ritter LMSWTelka Arend-Ritter LMSWTelka Arend-Ritter LMSW
  • About
  • Services
  • Mental Help Tools
  • Mental Help Videos
  • Resources & Trainings

Telka's Relationship Tools Page

The healthiest relationships require mental health and emotional intelligence.  Videos to compliment this material: anger,  stress, work stress, relationship and parenting. Manage and heal your relationship within yourself before attempting to involve others.

Refresher for how to use the Map to Emotional Health

Do you worry about RELATIONSHIPS?

 These 20 relationship questions guide you toward using the tools on this site.

Do you worry about your relationships? 20 Questions to ask yourself (pdf)Download

UNDERSTAND YOURSELF, UNDERSTAND OTHERS

Tired of getting irritated, disappointed and fooled --again? Taking everything personally? Relationship tools help you transition from emotional, dramatic reactions and unrealistic expectations into more logical, rational and reasonable thoughts.  No longer intending to change others, instead, seek to understand.  As you will note, personality types will respond differently to the tools on this website. Some will cooperate with healthier relationships, some will sabotage, tantrum or even sever ties. You can only be your best self, then detach from outcome.  Interested in Personality Disorders? Check out tool #15.  

Tool #1 5 Basic Personality Types Helps you know yourself, understand others. (pdf)Download
Tool #2 YOUR 27 RIGHTS, It's not about "are you right?" it's about "do you have the right?" (pdf)Download
Tool #3 2021 Good to know and Reasonable Expectations (pdf)Download
Tool #4 Trust Much? Use this Healthy Trust Inventory to assess your skills. 2 pages (pdf)Download
Tool #5 Checkers Tool. Do you protect your boundaries? What are boundaries? (pdf)Download
Tool #6 Five Assertiveness Tools for Healthy Relationships (pdf)Download
Tool #7 Four Tools for Dating Relationship (pdf)Download
Tool #8 Attachment Theory: Insecure, Secure or Aloof? (pdf)Download
Tool #9 Relationship Account Tool and 5 Love Languages (pdf)Download
Tool #10 Fair Fighting Rules (pdf)Download
Tool #11 When To Stay, Walk Away, or RUN 2022 (pdf)Download
Tool #12 Letting Go Takes Love- boundary tools (pdf)Download
Tool #13 Will Couples' Therapy Work For You? Take Telka's Couples Therapy Pre-Test (pdf)Download
Tool # 14 Concerned about substance use? Addiction? 16 page toolkit (pdf)Download

#15 More information about personalities

Descriptions of personality disorders help identify toxic relationships. Compare the disorders below to the 5 basic personality traits listed in Tool #1.  Use these materials to improve your emotional intelligence and reasonable expectations.

PERSONALITY_circumplex_PD (jpg)Download
Personality Disorders Clusters A,B,C (jpeg)Download
Diagnostic-Criteria-for-Avoidant-PD (png)Download
Borderline personality disorder description DSM-5 (pdf)Download
Diagnosis of Dependent Personality Disorder (pdf)Download
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (pdf)Download

Disclaimer

Call 911 or report to the nearest emergency room when in crisis

 Need safety and protection from relationship violence?

Abuse in LGBTQ+ communities 

Lansing Women's Shelter Eve's House 

Women's Center of Greater Lansing 

Michigan Sexual Abuse Hotline

Siren: Eaton County Relationship Violence Shelter

 Telka's tools, resources and recommendations are not a substitute for mental health treatment or intended to be used as medical care. This site is not intended to diagnose or treat psychiatric or medical conditions. Always consult your own health care professional for the  treatment of mental illness.   


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