Emphasis on learning practical coping strategies to help you develop the skills and confidence needed to navigate life’s challenges and make positive changes at a pace that fits your current lifestyle and demands.
Equips individuals with the skills to handle disputes constructively, respectfully and communicate confidently. Assertiveness training teaches you to express thoughts and needs clearly, without aggression or passivity. It’s all about building stronger relationships and fostering a peaceful, yet assertive, personal demeanor.
This is like a team-building exercise for your household. It aims to help everyone communicate better, resolve conflicts, enhance listening skills and strengthen relationships to create a happier, healthier family dynamic.
In a safe place and through techniques like cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness, and sometimes medication, you’ll learn to manage your symptoms and improve your overall well-being. After reviewing your history of trauma or disappointments, therapy will help you change negative thought patterns.
It’s all about finding ways to handle life’s pressures without feeling overwhelmed. It might involve practicing relaxation techniques, mindfulness, biofeedback, deep breathing or meditation, and making time for hobbies and exercise. The goal is to enhance your quality of life and encourage risk taking by reducing the negative impacts of stress, which is always an unavoidable part of life.
For those individuals who are not currently struggling with anxiety or depression, it’s like having a personal cheerleader and strategist rolled into one. It’s about guiding you to set and achieve goals, providing motivation and accountability, and helping you navigate life’s challenges with confidence and clarity.
As a psychologist who has designed and implemented over 15 Wellness programs at companies, hospitals and private clinics, I can help you create effective treatment programs addressing health problems such as Cardiac, GI, Diabetes, Chronic Pain, Sleep, Addiction, and Stress Management issues.
This form of therapy strengthens your brain’s “command center.” It focuses on improving skills like planning, sustained attention, memory, and self-control. It’s like giving your brain a personal trainer to help manage tasks better, stay organized, and make informed decisions. Whether you’re a student, professional, or just looking to keep your mind agile, executive function training can provide the mental agility needed to excel in everyday life.
Feelings of sadness and anxiety are normal, and most of the time they pass after a while. Specific situations or life events may make these feelings stronger temporarily, but you usually know that they won’t last forever.
Relationships often fluctuate – a little bit of healthy conflict can even help make them stronger. However, if you’re under a lot of stress or having difficulty coping with your emotions, this can negatively impact your relationships.
Experiencing a wide range of emotions is a normal part of the human experience. However, when you feel like your emotions are controlling your actions, it can be unsettling. Speaking to a therapist may help you develop strategies to manage them.
Thinking about negative feelings or experiences can help to process your emotions, but ruminating on them can make things worse in the long run.
Sometimes, you feel like you want more out of your personal and professional life. Therapy and/or personal coaching may help you discover what’s missing.
Therapy is an opportunity to discuss/talk about issues that are important to the client while having a trained objective person (Therapist) help work through not only the current situation but in dealing with similar situations in the future. Therapy can be about one specific problem, or it can be about multiple. Something to mention is that therapy is a collaborative event, it requires an active role from both the client at the therapist for change to occur.
There’s a common misconception about the role of therapists. Therapists aren’t there to give you advice and tell you how to feel or behave. You can get that type of advice talking with friends or family. Therapists are there to help you become more self-aware, meet your goals, and reflect on the best choices for you. They’re also trained to help you determine if your symptoms are caused by a mental health condition, and they can recommend treatment, if needed.
Therapy sessions are typically 45-50 minutes, while groups run longer per session. Clients typically meet on a weekly or bi-weekly basis depending on the client’s needs. The length of time while in therapy will depend on the individual client’s circumstance. The therapist and client will determine that together.
People see a therapist for a wide range of reasons including but not limited to stress management to a specific diagnosis. Sometimes an event occurs that causes an individual to seek out help, while others may attend therapy because it provides a trained objective person to help them work through some issues they may have been struggling with for years. Counseling can be beneficial because a client may feel a sense of control in their life and have the tools to be able to make better decisions or changes in their life.
Leaning on friends and family certainly can be helpful. That said, therapists are professionally trained to help you explore and discuss your difficulties and develop solutions to your particular problems. They have expertise in helping you express and evaluate your feelings, focusing entirely on you without bringing their own needs into the mix.
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