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Coping strategies for stress, anxiety & addiction.
Beyond Insurance: Paying for Anxiety Counseling
You’ve located a new therapist that seems A-mazing only to find out they are not a provider for your insurance company. Fear not, here are some options!
Questions to Ask Your Insurance About Paying for Anxiety Counseling
Navigating the insurance system can feel daunting, overwhelming and time consuming. Here are some questions to ask your insurance and tips to make things go a little smoother.
Questions to Ask Yourself AFTER a Consultation with a New Counselor
You’ve come so far… You’ve done the research, located a few counselors that look promising, and met with those counselors for a phone for 15 minute telephone consultation. Now, it’s time to decide who you want to begin therapy with! Here are eight questions to help guide your decision.
Important Questions to ask a New Counselor
As a result of recognizing that stress, overwhelm and anxiety have taken their toll, you’ve made the decision to begin therapy. You’ve found some prospective anxiety counselors in Spokane that seem promising based upon their website and headshot. The hard work is over, right?!? Almost, but not quite…
How to Find an Anxiety Counselor in Spokane, WA
As you start the process of finding a counselor, you may find yourself immobilized by questions that feel impossible to answer. I hope this information will help answer some of those questions and make it a little easier as you start this journey!
Reduce Anxiety by Embracing Mediocracy
As a highly capable individual who is quick to achieve, you’ve been inundated from a young age with messages about your potential and excelling to peak performance. Of course, encouragement in and of itself isn’t a bad thing! Or is it…?
The Ham Story: Quit doing things that aren’t serving you
Trying to do everything increases anxiety and makes us feel crappy about ourselves because we are constantly failing to meet the underlying expectation of perfection. So, if there isn’t enough time to do everything, we need to be choosy about what we are doing.
Two of the best treatments for Anxiety: MBSR & CBT
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), are two of the leaders. Read on to find a little information about each of these therapies and why they are helpful in the treatment of anxiety.
Is it possible to be too optimistic?
Am I too optimistic? Is it actually possible to be too optimistic? When it comes right down to it, I want to feel happy as much of the time as possible. This requires me to be aware of my thoughts (perceptions) in every situation I find myself. Would you like to increase your capacity for positive emotions? Read on techniques to help you increase optimism in your life...
Grounding Techniques: Helping you deal with large events in a society filled with mass shootings.
Is news of mass shootings making you nervous to venture out? Read on to learn a technique to help you to keep living your life in a time that feels uncertain and unsafe.