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October 16, 2023

Is Shame Haunting You in Your Home This Spooky Season?

By Kaileen Arsenault, Intuitive Needs Assistant READING TIME: 5 MINUTES Hi hi! Your Intuitive Needs Assistant is back to chime in.  Curious what an Intuitive Needs Assistant is? → Check Me Out I’ve previously written here about the service I offer at Wellness & Co. and how my service offers extra help in the home […]

September 5, 2023

5 Things Therapy Cannot Do for You

By Erin Newton, LCPC, PMH-C Hello everyone and Happy *almost* Fall! The practice has been really hoppin’ this summer, and that includes our referrals and requests for services! With four months left in the year we have already surpassed our number of calls from last year. We are honored and humbled to be this trusted […]

July 12, 2023

Understanding the Inner and Outer Critic

Many of us may be aware of the inner critic. The inner critic is zoomed in on our flaws, mistakes, or shortcomings. For some, the inner critic pushes us to constantly strive for “perfection”. For others, the inner critic is a dreadful voice that brings us down and leads to inaction.

March 7, 2023

This Blog Is About Anxiety

By Erin Newton, LCPC, PMH-C I’m coming to you now, oh internet, with less wisdom than I have ever blogged with before. Five days ago, after living for twenty plus years with them functional in my mouth, I had all my nightmares come true and all four of my wisdom teeth removed. And I decided […]

October 30, 2020

How to Overcome Your Anxiety: What Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Says

by Jessica Smith, LCPC What CBT Says We Can Do About It! By now you should be fairly familiar with some of the most common cognitive distortions (check out Parts III, IV, and V for examples), and hopefully you’ve been able to pinpoint when you’ve engaged in them when experiencing anxiety in the past. As […]

October 23, 2020

How to Overcome Your Anxiety: Our Last Five Cognitive Distortions

by Jessica Smith, LCPC And finally, our last five distortions to cover! Here’s Emotional Reasoning. This distortion involves internalizing our emotions so that we believe what we feel must be true. For example, “I’m feeling sad today. I’m such a miserable person” or “I’m feeling overwhelmed, so I’m not going to be able to solve […]

October 16, 2020

How to Overcome Your Anxiety: Five MORE Cognitive Distortions

by Jessica Smith, LCPC Hopefully you were able to read through my previous post which identified, described, and gave examples of some of the most common cognitive distortions (see Part II in our series for a definition of cognitive distortion). We’ll keep this psychoeducation train moving onto a few more! Here’s Personalization Has anyone ever […]

October 13, 2020

How to Overcome Your Anxiety: Five Common Cognitive Distortions

by Jessica Smith, LCPC Welcome back! In this post and the following two posts, I will be identifying, describing, and providing examples of some of the most common cognitive distortions. As you read, try to think of times you may have experienced certain feelings or behaved in certain ways based on these thought patterns! We’ll […]

October 9, 2020

How to Overcome Your Anxiety: What Our Negative Thoughts (or Cognitive Distortions) Look Like

by Jessica Smith, LCPC To this point, we’ve figured out what anxiety is and how it can affect us. We’ve also discovered that according to CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), it is typically caused by our negative thought processes. CBT terms these automatic negative thoughts cognitive distortions. Another Definition I’ll refer back to my trusty Merriam-Webster […]

October 5, 2020

How To Overcome Your Anxiety: A CBT Approach

by Jessica Smith, LCPC Hello friends, I’m Jess! For my first ever blogging attempt (woohoo!), I thought I’d take some time to talk to you about anxiety. The dreaded, sometimes overwhelming anxiety. First of all, what is anxiety? If I asked a room full of people (pre-COVID times of course!) how many have ever experienced […]