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Fun in the Sun: How Being Outdoors Helps You Heal
During this global pandemic, you are probably feeling like you’ve been cooped up inside forever. You may be feeling an increase in anxiety or depression, especially if you struggled with either before. However, there is good news! Even though you still have to...
With all this extra time to sleep, why am I still so tired?
At home, there is no doubt you are finding that you have more time to sleep than before. Whether you are a busy working mom, stay-at-home dad, freelancer, or corporate employee, you probably had hopes of catching up on that much-needed sleep during this...
Coronavirus Depression: Do we all have it?
It’s normal to feel sad, overwhelmed, and anxious here and there in your normal everyday life. However, during a global pandemic, those are feelings you might have every day as you try to work from home, school your children, and stay up-to-date with the news. ...
How To Know If You’re Depressed And What To Do About It
It’s normal to feel sad, overwhelmed, and anxious here and there in your normal everyday life. However, during a global pandemic, those are feelings you might have every day as you try to work from home, school your children, and stay up-to-date with the news. So what...
The 5-4-3-2-1 Technique to Cope and Stay Calm
There is one technique above all others that has helped me to cope, stay calm, and most of all, stay present during this pandemic. It helps to ground you into the present time and away from future fears and speculations. Not knowing what the future will hold can leave...
What is Emotional Contagion and How Can You Cope with it?
In short, emotional contagion is catching the feelings of someone else. Some of us carry big emotions, others receive, and some do both. As we all grabble with this pandemic on our terms, sometimes the negative feelings of others can impact the hard work we are doing...
Anxiety & Depression
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7 Tips to Decrease Your Anxiety
If the thought of going to a holiday party full of strangers or shopping in the holiday chaos of the mall gives you anxiety, you are not alone. Millions of Americans deal with some sort of anxiety disorder every day. You may think this form of anxiety is only a type...
Breaking Down the 7 Most Common Phobias
Are you afraid of the dark? Maybe you’re afraid of heights? You are not alone. Millions of people suffer from a variety of phobias. Some phobias are small and do not disrupt daily life. On the other hand, some are hard to go through life with. What is a...
Is Your Child’s Anger Normal? How to Know and What May Be Causing It
We've all been there. We've witnessed it or we've been a part of it. The screaming child out in public. Immediatley all eyes are on you. Why are they crying? Do they need help? Are they just upset? Are they angry? Are they sad? From the emotion outpouring of the...
What is a therapy dog and do I need one?
There are three main types of dogs that can offer you support: emotional support dogs, service dogs, and therapy dogs. Today we are going to breakdown everything you need to know about one of those types, therapy dogs. What is a therapy dog? A therapy dog works hard...
5 Things Not to do After Divorce
Divorce is tough. You know this, I know this. With that come a lot of feelings, many of which we don't know what to do with. It is easy to indulge in our feelings. However, depending on how we indulge can determine whether we enter our new life successfully or not so...
How to Become “You” Again After Divorce
If you have been married, it's likely that part of how you define yourself is caught up in who you were with your ex. They have a certain idea of you and you have a certain idea of who you were with them. Without them around, what does that make you? Answer: Whoever...
5 Daily Reminders for a Great Life After Divorce
No matter the circumstances leading up to a divorce, even amicable ones, it is an adjustment for everyone. There are good and bad habits to break, a new life to create, and a new freedom at hand. Whether life after divorce looks good on you or not has a lot to do with...
Making the Most of Every Other Weekend Parenting
It's difficult for kids to be shuffled back and forth between households when parents share custody, but it is also hard for you parents. One house may feel more like home than the other and, therefore, your children may be more comfortable at the other house than...
Summertime: 5 Tips for a Working Parent
Being a working parent is a struggle of its own. You're always balancing work, playing time with the kids, cooking, cleaning, shopping, your relationship with your spouse, and, maybe, some "you time." However, when summer comes around, that hustle can mix with guilt....
Anger & Grief
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8 Characteristics of a Healthy Relationship
We all desire a healthy, happy, romantic relationship. But what, exactly, does that look like? What exactly are the characteristics of a good relationship? Unfortunately, many of us have no idea. Maybe our personal baggage is to blame. Or maybe we watch far too many...
10 Red Flags of a Relationship
The start of every new relationship is all butterflies and sunbeams. Like every other start, it’s full of promise and excitement. This is where people tend to get lost and ignore potential warning signs. That other person seems to be everything we dreamed...
Co-Parenting After Divorce
As you’re well aware by now, your relationship with your ex does not end just because you’re not living together anymore. In fact, some of the stresses you may have experienced during your marriage, especially conflicts over parenting styles and beliefs,...
Are You Married to a Perfectionist?
Perfectionism is often deeply rooted in anxiety and lack of self-acceptance. The need to feel that your every action is perfect leads to constant feelings of failure. After all, who among us is perfect? In addition, perfectionism can also lead to giving...
Divorce Counseling
Before a married couple starts browsing the internet for an attorney, many couples will make an attempt at marital counseling. Couples commonly make this last-ditch effort to determine if the marriage is salvageable. However, it frequently seems as though...
Self-Care After Divorce
Are you going through a divorce? Are you already divorced? We all know how hard this process can be. Going through a divorce or legal separation is often extremely stressful and can change one's life entirely. Handling the legal and financial matters...
How to Talk to Kids about Divorce
Divorce is typically a sensitive and emotional event. It can be quite difficult to talk about, especially with children. It is common for parents to struggle with how to talk to their children about their divorce. Why? Well, some parents are unsure what or...
How to Cope with a Toxic Parent
Any negative behavior that causes emotional damage or contaminates the way a person sees themself is toxic. A toxic parent treat their children in such a way as to make those children doubt their importance and their worth. They may doubt that they are...
5 Ways to Rekindle Your Marriage as Empty Nesters
Here we are. The children have all left home. You and your spouse are finally alone after two decades as parents. Now what? How do you cope? What lies in store for the two of you? These are questions faced by millions of married couples worldwide each and...
Relationships
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Mental Wellness with Online Counseling
Mental health is an expression used to refer to our cognitive, behavioral, and emotional wellbeing; it affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health can affect daily...
Love Makes The World Go! With Online Counseling
Love makes the world go 'round. Crazy love. What's love got to do with it? Just about EVERYTHING! What better month to talk about love than February. Love at first sight, unrequited love, heartbreak love and unconditional love. It seems that mentioning...
Sexual Harassment: Online Counseling Can Help You
SEXUAL HARASSMENT Sexual Harassment: What is it? What does it look like? With all of the stories coming forward regarding sexual harassment in the news, it may have some of us thinking…wait, was I harassed? To help you answer your question and bring some...
#MeToo: Stop Sexual Harassment with Online Counseling
SEXUAL HARASSMENT #MeToo: Stop Sexual Harassment With everyone from politicians to celebrities, brave men and women have been coming forward to speak out and speak up about their own experiences with sexual harassment. This is crazy right?! No, it is not. This shows...
Getting Through Holidays- Online Counseling Can Help
HOLIDAYS How to Handle the Holidays with People That are Tough to be Around We all have one of those family members that do not know the meaning of “appropriate” during the holidays. They might be rude, inappropriate, hug you a little too long perhaps? ...
#MeToo: How Do We Respond?
MOVEMENT #MeToo: How Do We Respond? Two little words with an immense amount of power...#MeToo. For too long we have thought of our reactions to sexual assault and harassment in a dark light. If it happens to us we tend to respond with not responding at all. We might...
How to Cope in the Face of Natural Disasters
ANXIETY & DEPRESSION How to Cope in the Face of Natural Disasters It can be tough to cope with anxiety and depression on an average day, but when you and your loved ones are facing a natural disaster it can seem insurmountable. At Gateway 2 Counseling our hearts...
Caregiving & Empty Nesters
Learn more about adult caregiving and empty nesters.
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