Make a Resolution to Look After Your Mental Health

As you are in a new year, many of us have made resolutions to improve various aspects of our lives. One important resolution that is often overlooked, however, is taking care of our mental health.

Mental health is just as important as physical health, and yet it is something that many of us neglect. Stress, anxiety, and depression are all common mental health challenges that can have a significant impact on our daily lives.

Personality Testing with Alina

What is your personality type? Take my personality test to find out. In doing so, you will be taking the first step to healing through self analysis.

We are our own healers do not forget that! We are the light and the shadow and we often forget to love ourselves enough to be our own healers. I am a psychotherapist and trust me,

Mental Health Awareness During the Holidays

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS – The holiday season is a very special time when many emotions and expectations, combine to cause joy and happiness but also considerable amounts of stress and anxiety. In fact, for many adults who run families, the holidays can be a nightmare. These individuals can stress over reaching everyone’s expectations regardless of the emotional and financial costs involved.  People may also feel emotional and lonely during this time,

Couples Therapy Method: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) consists of changing our thought patterns to those that create more positive outcomes in our lives. Because we have a tendency to believe the “self-talk” that we tell ourselves in our minds, what we repeat mentally to ourselves has a tremendous effect on what manifests in our lives. CBT leverages this phenomenon to affect the way we relate to the world by changing the way we think and feel about it. 

Couples Therapy: Managing Expectations in a Relationship

Couples Therapy: Managing Expectations in a Relationship

Often long before we begin a romantic relationship, we form ideas and expectations about what love is.  These ideas about love not only define the way we relate to others in a relationship, they also in many ways dictate to us how we expect to be loved by the other person. In short, the way we were taught about love in our youth has a massive influence on how we both express love in a romantic relationship and how we expect love to be expressed back to us.

Managing Anxiety with Psychotherapy

Psychotherapists can provide individuals, groups or family members who are managing anxiety with the tools they need to succeed.

One area where psychotherapists can provide relief is in the management of anxiety.  Anxiety is a condition in which the body and mind are consumed with worry.  Anxiety can be normal in stressful situations such as public speaking or taking a test. However, anxiety is only an indicator of underlying disease when feelings become excessive,

Florida Premarital Course FAQs

What is the Florida Premarital Course?

The Florida Premarital Course Statute outlines the standards a teachable class must meet to be considered valid for engaged couples to learn the fundamental social skills needed for a long-term relationship. The couples who complete this special course have a better foundation for their marriage, receive a $25.00 reduction in the marriage license fee and have the standard three-day waiting period waived.

Mindfulness Meditation

Meditation takes many forms, one of the most common meditation techniques is called mindfulness meditation. This practice can be used as a daily routine and be one of very effective and simple ways to cope with any unexpected stressful experience or just release the weight of worries of family life, work or study environments.

Millennia of Tradition

Mindfulness is perhaps one of the most commonly used meditation practices in the contemporary world.

Factors Associated with Burnout

Mental Health Awareness Month is an opportunity to review all factors and conditions that affect our wellbeing. Whether these conditions exist at home or in the workplace, they can lead anyone to experience the mental and emotional fatigue we call burnout.

3 Ways We’ve Come Along Way in Mental Health Awareness

It’s Mental Health Awareness Month and there is a lot for us to celebrate.  We’ve come a long way since the days of routine confinement and ostracization of mental health patients. Today, while there is much room for improvement there are many areas where we have made light-years of progress in a very short time.

Here are some of the areas where massive steps forward have been made: