Mental Health Topics
We have put together a series of helpful advice that we hope helps you to capture some information and skills to help you learn more about mental health and how to achieve a better life balance.
Parent Tip: The “ACT” of Setting Limits
Counselor Madelyn made this video to discuss setting limits using a concept pulled from Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT), the "ACT" Method. A transcription of this video is available below. Video Transcription: Madelyn: Good morning, everybody. My name is...
How Counseling Helps Social Anxiety
People with social anxiety experience extreme and overwhelming worry and fear in social settings and often begin to avoid those settings in order to feel safe and secure. Counseling is one of the best ways to begin processing and reducing social anxiety. In this blog,...
What Is Crisis Counseling?
The American Counseling Association states that the primary purpose of crisis counseling is to help a person regain their sense of control and restore a normal state of functioning after experiencing a crisis. For our purposes, a crisis refers to any event where...
Is Stopping Therapy The Answer?
Therapy is hard work. It requires time and takes work outside of the session. Sometimes people are looking for a “quick fix” when it comes to mental and emotional concerns, and because of this, sometimes it's easy for a person to get frustrated and give up on therapy....
Am I Too Stressed?
In our fast paced society we’re always working towards some kind of goal - work, family, or personal related. Often, we feel measured by our productivity and the amount of energy we’re expending. That wears us down and can cause a significant source of stress. In this...
Should My Partner and I Go To Counseling?
Whether it’s family, friends, or your partner, relationships are difficult to manage. Partners usually have conflicting communication styles, habits, preferences, and habits. When you add in the challenges of daily life, relationships can become even more complicated...
What Is Couples Counseling?
Couples counseling is often a misunderstood area in the counseling field. We wrote this blog to help explain how it can benefit relationships! What Is Couples Counseling? Couples counseling aids couples, regardless of marital status or sexual orientation, in...
Why Consider Marriage Counseling?
“Marriage Counseling”... For many those words are a sign of doom. But is marriage counseling really just a precursor to divorce? Can it actually be a life raft for a relationship that feels to be drowning? Is it worth trying? In this blog, we are going to answer those...