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When Things Get Hard – Do You Quit, or Stay in It?
Learning and implementing a new skill is easy! Just kidding. In fact, it’s such a challenge for so many of us that trying to teach others how to...
How Do I Recover from Trauma?
Here’s a harsh reality: sometimes, the aftermath of a traumatic event, the residual lingering trauma, can be just as bad (if not worse!) than the...
Post Pandemic: Do People Have More Anxiety Now?
Life before. Remember how innocent we all were? Most of us could never have conceived of what happened. It’s safe to say the pandemic shook us all....
Am I Good Enough? How to Overcome Toxic Shame
Shame is excruciating and harmful. At its core, shame is the belief that we’re not good enough. Childhood is where most people acquire this message...
How to Have Self-Care and Boundaries During the Holiday Season
When you’re a youngster, the Holiday season is magical and exciting. Halloween kicks it all off. Then for the rest of the year it’s sweets, treats,...
5 Qualities to Look for In a Good Therapist
For many, the prospect of therapy – of having to open up and share your deepest most vulnerable self with a stranger – is terrifying. In fact, fear...
How Childhood Trauma & Neglect Adversely Impact Adulthood
Multiple studies attest to the lasting impact of childhood trauma, violence, and neglect. The residual effects carry through into adulthood and...
Why Smart Couples Choose Couples Therapy
When it comes to relationships, and frankly almost everything in life, you’re not expected to have all the answers. You don’t have to figure it...
Signs of Depression and When to Seek Help
True or false? If you’re able to get out of bed each morning and make it into work, you can’t be that depressed. If you guessed false, you’re...
Questions to Help Draw Out Withdrawn Kids and Teens
Being a parent is a flying by the seat of your pants kind of roller coaster, except no one’s there to ensure you’re tall enough to ride or strap you...
How to Break Bad Habits
Bad habits come in every shape, size and form. Smoking cigarettes, excessive online shopping, mindless scrolling, there’s no shortage of bad habits we can easily integrate if we so choose.
On the Brink of Divorce? Counseling Can Help
When it comes to divorce, we hear it all the time. Hollywood celebrities and public figures all claim, “we still deeply love and care for each other and are still best friends, but have mutually decided to lovingly file for divorce.”
When Should You Call an Anxiety Therapist?
Anxiety. Annoying at best, terrifying at worst.
When it morphs into a full-blown panic or anxiety attack, the onslaught can be so alarming that many people end up in the ER. Fully convinced their pounding heart means they’re in the throes of cardiac arrest.
Anxiety can leave you with the sensation of being “off,” constantly on edge with knots or a hollow gnawing in your gut. Feeling unsafe in your own mind and body. Totally detached or disconnected. Dreading the next occurrence – which you know is coming.
Today, anxiety is a word that gets tossed around frequently. Sometimes, its use in common everyday language is almost flippant. Like many things, its grip – the crushing hold it can have – exists on a spectrum.
So how do you know when it’s time to seek help?
What Are Some Reasons to Seek Family Counseling?
Whether we like to admit it or not, all families face trying situations. These affect everyone, and exude quite a strain on the family structure as a whole.
At the Relationship Therapy Center, we’ve helped families traverse all sorts of challenges. Perhaps it’s a dynamic that exists within the home that’s steadily growing worse. Or maybe it’s a tragedy that occurred – an accident, say – or something equally shocking and swift.
This piece covers some of the big ways family counseling helps. How do you know if your family could benefit from family counseling? Keep reading.
The Benefits of Face-to-Face Therapy
Your therapist appears concerned, concentrating deeply on what you’re saying. Her brow’s slightly furrowed and her face unflinching as she takes in the full magnitude of what you’re revealing. You’ve never opened up like this before – you’ve never been this articulate either – and you can’t wait for her response.
You finish your sentence and your therapist remains still. She doesn’t move – not even a blink.
That’s when you realize: the screen is frozen.
Did she catch any of what you shared?
Reach out to start your healing journey today