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Tips to Help Your Child or Pre-Teen Cope With Divorce:
Be honest in an age-appropriate manner. Younger kids need fewer details than older ones but still require openness. Occasionally it may even be reasonable to say, "That's between the grown-ups but understand that we both love you." Bypass directly lying as it can confuse and sends the incorrect message. For example, a young child asks, "Are you sad, Mom?" If you re... |
Why Women Delay Reporting Rape
Many people wonder why women fail to report sexual violence immediately. It differs based on the situation, and the reasons can be complicated, but here are a few reasons we hear during individual therapy in Orlando: The victim often doesn't directly acknowledge or label the occasion as an attack, trauma, or act of sexual abuse. They might not even comprehend that what they ... |
Using Meditation to Cope with Grief
Managing grief is one of the most challenging things in life that we must unfortunately encounter. The finality of losing somebody we love can cause us to feel anger, anxiety, or depression. When coping with grief, it might feel like you cannot move forward, or you don't understand how you can keep living in a world without your loved one in it. ... |
Help For the Stay-at-Home Parent
If you are you a stay-at-home parent that struggles with symptoms of depression, anxiety, loneliness, guilt, or identity loss? You are not alone. If you are seeking therapy for new parenthood or to find ways how to overcome anxiety after staying home with a new baby, talking to an Orlando woman's therapist or anxiety therapist can help. According to Pew Research fact tank fr... |
What is PTSD?
Trauma therapy in Orlando is most often helpful for PTSD. But what is PTSD and how can you tell if you have it? Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, commonly known as PTSD, is a mental health condition that occurs following a traumatic event. The person may experience flashbacks, nightmares, difficulty concentrating, trouble trusting others, being easily startled, or feeling “on edge&rdq... |
7 Sure Fire Ways to Self-Motivate
As therapists, we are taught how to help our clients feel motivated and ready for the many changes life may throw at us. It is common to have difficulties outside of the therapy office or outside of work to find motivation or drive. Here are some general tips and feedback for those times that make it a little harder to get going! Utilize incentives - if I complete ______... |
The Mental Health Benefits of Music
As we are all well aware, music is an effective and popular coping mechanism amongst every generation. From pop culture to entertainment, to TV, to real life, we all have seen and felt the effects of how powerful music can be. Music quite literally saves lives. The amazing part of music is that no two people will take in, apply, and comprehend music in the same way. We take an artist'... |
Sexuality and the Pressure to Label It
As time and generations continue to progress and communicate their identities and desires, we as LGBTQ therapists in Orlando and humans learn about the complexities of attraction and sexuality. The most interesting thing about how we view and describe our sexuality differs from one person to another. It is very common that these identities or labels might shift or change throughout your l... |
Commitment in Orlando Couples Therapy
Commitment in couples therapy Orlando is a relative staple of all couples therapy models. Traditionally, the stigma towards couples therapy is that it was taboo, not able to be thought about, or even considered for a couple to seek expert couples therapy services, especially in Orlando. However, when this stigma changed, couples were at first a little unsure of what they were going to exp... |
Help! I'm Married to a Narcissist!
The word narcissism tends to be used and spoken about much more in today’s world than normal. Normally, people use it to talk about the flaws of a person with the hopes of using words to attack that person. However, there are individuals that tend to meet the full criteria of narcissistic personality disorder and even more so, there are those that are married to them. Just as one wo... |
