The Center For Creative Balance is evolving. It has been the name of the practice of Jim Wells, MD, a medical doctor and Board Certified psychiatrist, and his wife Libba Wells, MSN, RN, CS, a psychiatric nurse specialist who provides psychotherapy for adults and adolescents. Libba continues to provide psychotherapy services as before, but as of February 14, 2008, Jim's private practice at CFCB ended. Jim expects to do some new things as a part of the mission of the Center for Creative Balance after he returns in October from thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, but he does not yet know the nature of his new activities. We believe that our society tends to encourage us to behave in extremes. Balance is a concept often lost in the resulting turmoil. We have spent the last two and a half decades assisting individuals, couples, and families with finding balance in numerous areas of life, including communication and other couple-related problems, issues related to excessive life stress, and spiritual concerns. We have also helped individuals deal with grief, depression, anxiety, panic, social phobias, manic-depression, and other mental or emotional illness. We believe that enhanced listening skills are essential for healing stressed relationships and have as part of our mission teaching these skills to as many individuals and groups as possible. “It is impossible to create a healthy culture if we refuse to meet, and if we refuse to listen. But if we meet, and when we listen, we reweave the world into wholeness. And holiness.” --Margaret Wheatley (2002), Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future The Center For Creative Balance is dedicated to helping find balance in an unbalanced world.