What do therapists recommend for people who struggle with self-love? Counseling can help, but we’d like to help you here and now. Self-love something that’s in short supply far too often. Without it, self-care becomes an unimportant distraction, and our standards reach gutter and storm drain levels.  Your brain is a self-perpetuating organism. Self-love is […]

When we’re depressed, we don’t usually feel like undertaking any sort of project, much less a DIY art project. When you have to ration your energy just to accomplish the bare minimum each day, why would you spend that precious energy on something “unnecessary” like making art?  But in reality, making art is utterly necessary. […]

There are a lot of counselors in St. Petersburg who are jockeying to offer you advice. It seems you can’t throw a fistful of sand around here without hitting a life coach, yoga teacher, or mental health counselor. And those people can offer a lot of great advice in the long term, once you’ve built […]

When we’re considering counseling, it’s natural to wonder how a counselor is actually going to help us. Is our counselor going to just chat about our problems with us, or are they going to offer us real solutions to the problems we’re facing? The right therapist can make the difference between growth and stagnation, but […]

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.  […]