How to Manage Anxiety Over Mass Shooting Events

The world sure is a chaotic place lately. Are you suddenly rethinking all of your daily routines, and wondering just how many could be disrupted by violence? Unfortunately, that’s normal.  Anxiety over mass shootings is a very real consequence to the increase in mass shootings and media coverage of them. The latest mass shooting in a
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Will Psychotherapy Notes be Accessible Under New Federal Rules?

New Federal Rules Increase How Much Information a Patient Can Access A law was passed in November of last year to give patients access to reading their health records, which is different from the access with HIPAA that can take longer to obtain. This law enables immediate access to the patient’s notes, which increases transparency
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Coping with Back-to-Work Anxiety after COVID

As restrictions ease and people begin going back to work, we are also faced with a new level of anxiety about returning to the world we used to know. Emerging from weeks of strict coronavirus lockdown, itself a cause of serious mental health disruption, the lifting of restrictions brings for many a sense of trepidation
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Understanding Anxiety and Why Counseling Helps

Fun fact: anxiety is normal experience.  We are hard wired to experience anxiety. It serves a purpose for us. It is responsible for keeping our senses, brain, and body alert and prepared for any possible threats. Our senses take in over three trillion bits of information in any given second. Subconsciously, a consistent and erratic
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Grief Counseling: Living with Loss

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Grief is a part of being human that is an inherently vulnerable experience, and loss is an inevitable part of being alive, no matter the season. The ability and willingness to open ourselves to grief, as ironic as it might seem, is essential to living a full, enriched, meaningful life. The deeper and fuller we
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Why See A Therapist

Why see a therapist? The Huffington Post recently published an article titled “8 Signs You Should See a Therapist.” Some of the examples they outline include: Everything you feel is intense You’ve suffered a trauma and you can’t stop thinking about it You have unexplained and recurrent headaches, stomach-aches or a run down immune system You’re using a substance
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Ask a Child Psychologist: Should My Child Get Counseling?

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The decision to seek out a child psychologist for your little one is a scary, stressful proposition. But it shouldn’t be! In actuality, you’re one of a growing number of parents who are involved enough with their children’s lives to see a problem or an area needing improvement, and turn to a psychologist who can
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What Are You Looking For In Therapy

What are we seeking when we turn to a psychotherapist? Most of the time we are asking for help to reduce or remove some terrible anguish in our hearts, minds or bodies. We may be suffering anxiety attacks, or beleaguered by annoying obsessive or even paralyzing thoughts, suffering a crisis of hatred and disconnection in our marriage, worrying
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Parenting & Changes to the Parent – Child Relationship

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One of the toughest things to do as a parent is to adjust to each new stage that your kid enters into. Not only are these new developmental milestones and life transitions challenging to manage as a parent, but it’s also important to grieve the loss of your little one, if that’s what you’re feeling.
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How do I know if I need therapy?

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How do I know if I need therapy? This is an excellent question that often gets overlooked by mental health providers. We tend to take for granted that people will “just know” if they need therapy or not, but there is a whole process of decision making for people that rarely involves the clinician. Therapy
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