Therapy has many benefits for individuals, families, couples, and anyone looking for improvement and insight. However, traditional therapy, visiting with a counselor in an office, may not be the best option for everyone seeking to improve their mental health. Online Therapy: An Alternative to Traditional Therapy Online therapy, also known [...]
Money matters. It allows us to meet our basic needs, pursue dreams, and enjoy experiences. But have you ever considered how our financial situations impact our mental and emotional well-being? Read on to learn how money can affect our mental health and how a therapist can overcome these challenges. How [...]
Keeping up with everything we face in our daily lives can easily feel overwhelming. Learning to strike a healthy work-life balance can reduce stress, prevent burnout, and ultimately lead to a happier, healthier life. What is work-life balance? Work-life balance refers to our ability to maintain a healthy balance between [...]
Did you know that 10–20% of known pregnancies end in miscarriage? Despite its impact, many parents have felt alone in their pregnancy loss. You find yourself caught in a loop of endless questions and ongoing uncertainty while moving further away from the dreams you had for your family. Here are [...]
You may have heard of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), but may not be familiar with this method of therapy. For nearly four decades, this action-oriented form of therapy has helped individuals change their relationship towards negative behaviors and feelings, allowing them to move beyond the things that have held [...]
We all struggle from time to time when it comes to how we feel about ourselves. The ups and downs of how we feel can be caused by many internal and external sources. These fluctuations are natural, normal, and typically temporary. Prolonged feelings of self-doubt, self-loathing, and a poor opinion [...]
Our brains are hardwired to compare ourselves to those around us and you are not alone in doing this. Our ancestors had far fewer resources and had to compete with those around them for food and shelter in much more intense ways than we do now. This forced humans to [...]
Have you ever stopped yourself from feeling something because someone else has it worse? It’s so easy to shame ourselves for feeling bad because we always know someone in a worse situation. Our brains like to protect us from harm, and it views painful emotions as dangerous. This is why [...]
When we begin feeling anxiety, it can be confusing. Are we feeling this because of a temporary stressor or new painful stimuli in our environment - like unexpectedly being laid off from work, for example. Or is this a chronic condition that has been brought to the surface recently? Will [...]
As we engage in counseling services, the symptoms that initially motivated one to seek counseling can worsen. This can be frightening. Learning how to look at anxiety as "something we have" compared to "something we do" takes time. Learning how the more our lives center around ridding ourselves of anxiety [...]
