Therapy can change your attitude, emotions, and relationships if you can find the right therapist. If you’re looking for a counselor in St. Petersburg, it can be hard to figure out which therapist is the right fit for you. There are so many specialties out there, and the fact that their true meaning is hidden […]

When you have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, taking care of yourself can become quite a complicated task. Having OCD is far more inconvenient than just feeling compelled to clean or being afraid of germs. Suffering from OCD means it can feel like we’re at the mercy of our intrusive thoughts, and determining the right course of […]

Who is ketamine therapy for? Some people need more than just talk therapy or daily medication. Psychiatric medications can be hard to balance and frustrating to troubleshoot, and talk therapy can only do so much to help you break through your boundaries. Although it isn’t often spoken of, depression often resists treatment, and the results […]

It’s the holiday season, and sometimes that can make you feel like you need to talk with a therapist. After all, isn’t this a time to be happy? What does it mean if we feel disconnected from the holly jolly atmosphere that surrounds us? What’s the point of celebrating even when we’re depressed, anxious, or […]

Feeling overwhelmed by finals week? Approaching the finish line of each semester can be a test of our endurance, lifestyle, and emotional wellbeing. Any mistakes we’ve made are now readily apparent, and putting yourself in a state of hypervigilant distress about it comes all too naturally. But if we are highly upset, highly burnt out, […]

Our Relationship With Grief Is Complicated During the height of the pandemic, my supervisor at the large substance abuse/mental health agency I was working for at the time, invited the entire outpatient clinical staff to attend a virtual grief summit. I was overwhelmed with my large virtual caseload; but was mildly excited by the prospect.  […]

Without gratitude, it is all too easy to fall under the spell of anxiety and depression. If we do not take the time to appreciate the world around us, we put ourselves on a path to curse the world and all that it might offer. If we can be grateful for the calm darkness of […]

A gentle chill is striking the air. The last leaves have almost fallen. Thanksgiving, and its looming threat of a reunion with our family, is almost upon us. Autumn is drawing to a close, and it can be tempting to close the book on your own therapeutic growth along with it. Even when your home […]

It’s not always obvious when we’re avoiding intimacy. It might go under our radar for years before we become cognizant of it, and even longer before we start to take action. Often we avoid intimacy through lack of physical contact, but it can run so much deeper than just the physical. The intimacy avoidant will […]

Forgiveness is a tricky but unavoidable aspect of human entanglement. Although we are social creatures, we are also independent and self-serving actors without the benefit of a stage. We wind up hurting one another and being hurt by one another as a perpetual theme in our story. If we expect to be successful at this […]