Anxiety and stress are typical during the holiday season. Here are four practical solutions to manage anxiety and prevent undue stress this holiday season.
Free Everyday Therapy
Therapy is expensive! Here are a few ways to engage in free therapeutic activities any day, everyday.
Blueprint to Building Beneficial Habits
Life’s transitions can springboard you towards personal growth and advancement. Here are 7 tips for pivoting with promise.
October 2023 Choosing Therapy Article
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Verbalizing is helpful, but the next best step is to physically express and emote ideas, visuals, and interpretations. This is how somatic therapy, play therapy, music therapy, and art therapy have become field norms in counseling. Healing needs and depths of healing are unique. Talk therapy has limitations.
5 Peaceful Ways to Walk Away
Admittedly, the majority of goodbyes can invoke painful memories and emotions. For the average individual, transitions, change, and goodbyes are uncomfortable. These five steps to saying goodbye can help with transitions.
Bounce Back after Break-up
There are relationships where it may make the most sense to chunk the deuce, peace out, swan song, mic drop, sayonara…you get it. For those of you who have had to heal from pain at the end of any relationship, here are 5 ways to bounce back after a breakup.
My Little Library
If you have struggled with self-esteem, identity, purpose, or perceived yourself through a negative lens, consider counseling with a faith-based professional. Bringing these core identity concerns into psychotherapy with an attentive, compassionate, and insightful professional may help assist you in transforming what counselors call Automatic Negative Thoughts.
2023 – One More Year
Cue the confetti. Grab the party horn. Don a festive hat. The time to congratulate, celebrate, and consider JJC’s third summer of service is NOW! Whoop WhoopIf you have followed JJC for any amount of time, you are familiar with Founder, Jennifer Lytle’s personal emphases on specific moments of reflection and rejoicing. This year is …
That Time When My Therapist Was Late
It’s ideal for both client and counselor to help one another adhere to timing . . . and if your counselor is ever late, allow them a good faith effort to address and correct the issue. Otherwise, you’ve simply averted confrontation. That might be the very reason you are in counseling at all. What better time to practice than when your therapist is late?