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Grounding Stones: A Coping Skill For Stress, Anxiety & Life

If you seek some grounding strategies for anxiety, our anxiety therapists know how to help you discover coping methods that work for you. Grounding strategies help you relate to the moment in a nonjudgmental, practical way, helping you feel more connected. We recommend clients employ grounding techniques to empty their minds of anxiety and stress. It's great to rehearse even when you ...

Three Steps To Take When Dreams Don't Come True

You've dreamed about your future a million times. You believed you had everything planned out. You visualized a bright future for yourself and allowed that spark of hope to grow inside you. Then, something transpired, and it now looks like you're on a different path than the one you intended. It seems like your vision is shattered. You noticed that plan in your mind's eye so o...

Experiencing Loss Outside of Death

Our experts on counseling in Windermere understand that grief and loss are hard to comprehend. But, a loss doesn't always mean death. Sometimes there's a void in your life, or something you cherish is suddenly missing, yet nobody has died. You've not gone to any funerals. No one has made a casserole. But something is still different. There's been a palpable change; you mus...

Five Ways To Manage Anxiety As A Parent

Parenting is the hardest and most important thing you've ever done. But unfortunately, there are so many things that can cause parents stress. And then, that pressure can lead to anxiety, making parenting even more difficult! So here are some easy ways to help you manage stress and discover a bit more serenity for yourself. ...

Understanding PTSD Treatment

First, it is essential to acknowledge that everybody is different, and everyone's background with PTSD is diverse; therefore, everybody's treatment will be a little different. For example, the trauma counseling in Orlando that supports a retired Vietnam vet in coping with decades-old trauma that still plagues him in his dreams may be a little different than the treatment of a coll...

What to Expect from Trauma Treatment

Visualize a mountain range. You've been told that there is a beautiful valley on the other side. You determine that you need to get to this tranquil, calm, and safe valley. So you prepare and set off to traverse the perilous mountain range. It's a challenging journey, and even after you reach the top of the largest mountain, you discover there are still some smaller ones beyond it...

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...