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Melissa Guarnaccia

Clinical Reviewer

Finding a career can be a difficult and intimidating task, as it is often wrought with high-impact decisions. However, it is not necessarily a choice that must be navigated alone. Whether you are brand-new to...

Career Counseling: Can A Career Counselor Help You Get A Job You Love?

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April Justice

There are many words in the English language that sound the same but have different meanings. These words are called homophones and can confuse people when trying to use the right word. Two such...

Councilor Vs. Counselor: What Is The Difference?

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Julie Dodson

Becoming a counselor is a serious commitment that requires at least six years of study and thousands of hours of practical hands-on training. You can take various paths...

 Interested In Mental Health Counseling? How To Become A Counselor

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Andrea Brant

Andrea has been practicing therapy for over a decade. Her professional career has included working with children, teens, adults and seniors. She began her career working in a dual diagnosis inpatient facility in Florida. After a few years she decided to switch to an outpatient setting. In addition to this work, she started her own private practice which has been thriving since 2016. She now focuses solely on providing online therapy. While Andrea always aims to tailor her therapeutic style to her client’s needs, she specializes in CBT and DBT skills.

Despite the stigma still sometimes attached to mental health challenges, most people will experience mental health issues in their lives. In fact, it is estimated that one in five Americans live with at least...

Mental Health Benefits Of Crisis Text Counseling And Crisis Text Lines

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Laura Angers Maddox

Laura Angers has focused her work experience with individuals, families, and couples equally. She worked in a group home, in office settings and she has also provided in-home counseling during the past few years. Laura has experience working with survivors of trauma and abuse, individuals with depression, stress, and anxiety, as well as couples with relationship distress. 

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<li>Marriage and Family Counseling</li>
<li>Play Therapy</li>
<li>Cognitive Behavioral Therapy</li>
<li>Crisis</li>
<li>Suicide and Self-Harm</li>
<li>Anxiety</li>
<li>Depression</li>
<li>Substance abuse</li>
<li>Addictions</li>
<li>Teen Counseling</li>
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You may have reached a critical crossroads in your marriage: either you, your spouse, or both of you are thinking of getting a divorce. For most people, this isn’t a decision...

How Discernment Counseling Can Benefit A Marriage That Is Nearing Divorce

Is it time to move on? Maybe you’ve asked yourself this question already, but you’re not really sure you have an answer—or you have an answer, and that answer frightens you. Or...

Accepting When It's Time To Move On From Your Relationship

Many people struggle with rebooting their lives and picking up the pieces after ending a marriage or a long-time relationship. Have you recently gotten separated...

My Marriage Fell Apart And Now I Feel Like A Failure

What is reunification? The definition is coming back together again after being separated. Although it is typically used in the reunification of territories, states, or...

 What To Expect From Reunification Therapy: A Comprehensive Guide For Parental Alienation And Child Relationships

Women and men are very different. What puts you in the mood is totally different than what puts her in the mood. It seems like men are almost always in the mood but when it...

How To Seduce Your Wife All Over Again

Feelings of love in a marriage contribute not only to a healthy bond but also to individual happiness and confidence. Though a certain amount of cooling, in terms of passion, is...

My Wife Doesn't Love Me Anymore: Should I Seek Marriage Counseling?

When your husband is angry all the time, it can affect your emotional state and your marriage in many ways. If it feels like he’s always mad, you may start to think it...

Is It My Fault My Husband Is Always Angry?

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Majesty Purvis

Many individuals may disagree on whether married individuals can be friends with someone who isn't married. Although there is not necessarily a set "rule" about...

Body Language And Eye Contact: Five Signs A Married Man Likes You As More Than A Friend

Marriage counseling is a highly effective approach to addressing many marital concerns. In the marriage counseling process, a counselor works with you and your spouse to improve...

Does Couples Therapy And Marriage Counseling Near Me Support Mental Health?

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Nikki Ciletti

Nikki is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Colorado, working in the field of mental health and school counseling for over 24 years.

Couples therapy can have a different structure than individual or group therapy. While individual therapy focuses solely on one client's needs, desires, and goals, couples...

What To Know Before Entering Couple Therapy: Benefits Of Couples Therapy

If you’re interested in going to therapy, one of the concerns you probably have is how you’re going to pay for it. Even if you have health insurance, you may still be confused. Does your health insurance...

Free Marriage Counseling: You Get What You Pay For 

For many men, if not most men, women are mysterious creatures. How women work and what they think can be mystifying to the opposite sex, and figuring out the right...

Eight Tips For Approaching Women In The Right Way

Couples counseling is all about you and your partner working both individually and together to improve your relationship with yourself and your partner. However, couples’...

Utilize Couples Counseling Worksheets To Enhance Mental Health And Therapy

We’ve all heard of therapy. The cliché picture of a therapist sitting in a chair across a tiny room from their patient, lying down on a brown couch is one we see in many movies...

What Is Text Therapy? Text-Based Therapy & Mental Health

If you're on the fence about whether or not you should look into therapy as a couple, here are a few things to keep in mind.

Take some time to find out whether or not working with a nearby counselor can help your marriage.

Learn how online marriage counseling has helped many couples, and how it can help your marriage.

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