Love And Life Toolbox
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT

Emotional Health and
Relationship Support

Helping you Add Tools to Your Toolbox

Lisa Brookes Kift is a licensed therapist (LMFT), providing emotional and relationship help to individuals and couples for almost 20 years. As one of the first therapists with an online presence, LoveAndLifeToolbox.com attracts a worldwide audience.

Empower yourself to be the best you can be individually, and in your relationships via the articles, self-help tools and consultation service available here. Search for a topic in Lisa’s vast library of content, browse current products in The Toolbox Store or Ask Lisa directly for for emotional health or relationship feedback via her new online chat consultation service.

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Your emotional health and relationship satisfaction are integral parts of your happiness. As a licensed therapist, I help people improve some of the most important aspects of both. Here you will find a vast library of emotional health and relationship education as well as self-help tools for self-esteem, emotional safety in your relationships, better boundaries, reduction in worry and fear as well as how to break unhealthy relationship patterns. Family of origin work therapy is my superpower, helping people shift the unhelpful belief systems that keep them stuck.

How Can Love and Life Toolbox Help?

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Education from a licensed and practicing therapist

Improve happiness

Increase emotional safety in your relationships

Understand how family of origin issues can keep you stuck

Work through old wounds

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Self-help tools for happiness and healthy relationships

Digital workbooks for individuals and couples

Break unhealthy relationship patterns

Family of origin work

Premarital education

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Easy access emotional health or relationship consultations

Ask Lisa for feedback and suggested course of action

Relationship questions

Emotional health questions

Psychoeducational service, not therapy

Featured Articles

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Unhealthy Relationships? Break Your Relationship Patterns

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What is Family of Origin Work?

Love And Life Toolbox - Addressing the Problem of Feeling Unlovable
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Addressing the Problem of Feeling Unlovable

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Healthy Relationships: Assessing the Emotional Safety

Love And Life Toolbox - 6 Ways to Stop Worrying About the the Small Stuff
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6 Ways to Stop Worrying About the the Small Stuff

Love And Life Toolbox - Happiness: Questions to Ask Yourself…and a Caveat
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Happiness: Questions to Ask Yourself…and a Caveat

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Is Your Relationship in Red Alert?

Love And Life Toolbox - 5 Steps to Create Positive Change in Your Relationship
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5 Steps to Create Positive Change in Your Relationship

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If you're not ready for therapy, a therapist consultation is another option to kickstart your personal growth journey. Get a response to your emotional health or relationship question via chat by Lisa Brookes Kift, LMFT, a licensed therapist trained in emotional health and relationship dynamics and Founder of LoveAndLifeToolbox.com.

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Most Popular Self-Help Products

Break Your Unhealthy Relationship Patterns

Break Your Unhealthy Relationship Patterns
Family of Origin Work

Family of Origin: Untangle Your Unhealthy Roots
Marriage Refresher Course Workbook for Couples

The Marriage Refresher Course Workbook for Couples

FAQs

Emotional health is how you think, feel, behave and your ability to cope with your emotional states, whether negative or positive. There are many factors, including what you’ve been modeled before and your unique experiences, all the way back to your family of origin. The primary related emotions are mad, sad, glad and afraid.

Relationship health is the way you engage in your relationships and what you accept from others. Ideally, there is emotional safety in your closer relationships; intimate, family and friendships, an environment of trust, respect, validation, empathy, good communication, etc. Healthy boundaries and emotional availability are also relevant.

Happiness is a combination of many things for people but generally it’s difficult to feel happy if your inner world isn’t at ease and you don’t feel positively connected to others, even if just a few. They are connected because of how much they impact each other. If the two are both functioning well, there is a greater sense of well-being.

You may feel out of control internally or with others and probably with good reason if this has been your experience before. To regain self-empowerment, you need to do the work of identifying the issues, understanding why and doing something different. Family of origin work can help you unpack this. General psychoeducational education and trying different things can also help.

Going to therapy with a therapist who specializes in family of origin work and attachment issues can help you see things more clearly and make deeper level change. Also look for those with a focus on somatic therapy. CBT is helpful too.

Yes. Though not a replacement for live support, there are many educational tools and guides available created by therapy professionals. My Therapy-At-Home Workbooks and Guides were created exactly for this, to help those who prefer a DIY approach or those planning at some point for therapy but want to get a head start and be clear on where their work is ahead of time.
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Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT

Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT, is the Founder of LoveAndLifeToolbox.com, a comprehensive resource for emotional health and relationships.

Lisa has a private practice in Marin County, CA., working with individuals and couples.

A frequent consultant for the media, she has written extensively for news and other online sources such as CNN, HuffingtonPost, Shape and MensHealth.

Providing emotional health and relationship help worldwide for 20+ years

Trusted media consultant interviewed and quoted in multiple publications

Individual therapy and couples counseling practice in Marin County, California

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