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Tips for Realizing that Your Marriage is in Crisis

Divorce is a relatively common spectacle in the U.S. While the most frequently cited statistic is that 50 percent of unions will end in divorce, recent calculations are that the number is really in the range of 42 to 45 percent of matrimonies culminating in divorce. While smaller than previously acknowledged, this is still an expansive number of divorces, and it's a figure that is inc...

Improving Communication in Your Marriage

There is simply no refuting that a direct line of communication is vitally critical for building healthy, optimistic relationships with other people. The biggest issue is that most individuals lead such active, often stressful lives that we fail to think about intercommunicating effectively with our spouses. Good communication demands extra focus and exertion. It means truly comprehending...

Second-Hand Tragedy's Toll on Mental Health

Reading or listening to news accounts of significant disasters and mass devastation can harm your mental health. For example, the recent mass shootings; natural catastrophes like hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis; the overload of terror attacks happening around the world -- any of these, no matter how distantly withdrawn from your home, can negatively affect your emotional well-being ...

Anxiety for Women

Anxiety can take a severe toll on a woman's health and feeling of overall well-being. Signs can vary from mild and manageable to comprehensive and debilitating. Pursuing expert treatment for anxiety that is difficult to manage or situational is essential to sustaining mental fitness and health for women. Orlando Thrive Therapy specializes in individual counseling in Orlando and surrou...

Is CBT the right therapy for me?

Individual CBT, cognitive behavioral therapy in Orlando, is derived towards working with individual clients who need assistance in navigating stress but how to react and engage in a certain time and place. Often, the emotional mind as noted by DBT, dialectical behavioral therapists in Orlando, constructs the idea that the person knows how to respond in a situation by relying on what was p...

Self Advocacy is Self Respect

Self-advocacy is self-respect. This notion and theme are noted by individual therapists in Orlando when practicing their therapeutic style and teachings. Individual therapists in Orlando would agree that when an individual self-advocate's for their rights and needs, they are demonstrating self-respect for themselves. This self-respect is showing that the person has respect for what th...

4 Tips for Being More Grateful

Sometimes it is easy to be grateful, but it can be challenging, especially when you feel burned out, exhausted, or stressed. In addition, gratitude does not always feel natural to people because some of them have a negativity bias, meaning they give higher importance to negative experiences and thoughts than positive ones. However, gratitude is a skill that you can develop with practice, ...

6 Tips to Express Emotion in Your Marriage

Exploring your emotions is challenging enough, but revealing them to a partner can be extremely overwhelming. But sharing your feelings is critical for a healthy marriage to build intimacy and trust. The more vulnerable you are, the more connected and close you will feel to your spouse. Our marriage therapist in Winter Park recommends these ways to express emotion in your marriage: ...

2 Ways to Support a Depressed Friend

Depression is a common mental health issue with various symptoms that make it challenging to manage daily responsibilities. It is wide-reaching with the potential to impact the sufferer and their family and friends. One of the most common symptoms of depression is a disconnect that leads to isolation. It can seem nearly impossible to help a depressed person, but this is a symptom of the c...

6 Great Reasons to Go to Therapy

Therapy involves more than just sitting comfortably on a couch. Unfortunately, there are many misconceptions about what it means to seek the help of a mental health professional. The need for emotional support is often viewed as shameful, weak, or funny. This stigma leads to many people who need support failing to seek the help they deserve. In reality, therapy is a helpful tool...