Men’s Mental Health During the Holidays | Orlando Counselor

As the holidays and the cold weather quickly approaches, it has become increasingly more important than ever to be considerably mindful of those around us. The holidays can be a very exciting time for many but can understandably be [...]

How and Where to Get Help For Your Teen’s Mental Health

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the U.S. Surgeon General Murthy, symptoms of both anxiety and depression have doubled during this time with about 25% of the youth experiencing depressive symptoms and about 20% experiencing symptoms of anxiety. There has [...]

Four Tips For Holiday Party Food Anxiety | Orlando Counselor

Do you loathe holidays? Dread social invitations? Can’t stand the thought of a Christmas party? Those with eating disorders (Bulimia, Anorexia, Binge Eating or Overeating) shiver at the upcoming holiday season, not for the social aspect but for the [...]

How Hypnosis Can Help with Covid Related Stress

It’s no secret that we are all in this together. There is a higher level of fear and anxiety  that has spread through the world since early last year.   It’s not “over” yet and still life goes on. You might [...]

5 Tips For Extended Family Holiday Scheduling

Are you dreading the holidays?  Do you have to split holidays with more than two groups of relatives?  Do you feel you are traveling all over the place and resent holidays?  Are you a people pleaser and trying to [...]

5 Quarantine Tips for Coping with Social Isolation While Social Distancing | Counselor

5 Tips for Coping with Social Isolation While Social Distancing 1 in 5 Americans are in social isolation in their homes due to the COVID-19 virus.  5 states have now issued “stay at home orders,” which entails no going out [...]

7 Marriage Relationship Tips to Manage Quarantine Stress | Marriage Therapist

Relationships can be difficult, but when you add a global pandemic, quarantines, curfews, and the mass hysteria flowing through society, relationships can seem almost impossible. You’re stuck in the house all day, unable to distract yourself with your usual daily [...]

7 Warning Signs Your Partner May Be Controlling You | Women’s Counselor

Are you constantly being told what to wear, when to be home, and what to do by your partner?  Are you afraid to voice your opinion to your partner?  Many times people who find themselves in this type of relationship [...]

18 Signs of Teen Addictions – Lindsay Lohan: Party Girl, Addict, or Criminal | Teen Counselor

18 Signs of Teen addiction Sometimes having fun may be dangerous. Parents must be aware of the tell tale signs of teen addictions. We live in a culture that thrives on youth, beauty, power, and wealth. However, having fun as [...]

10 Tips to Improve Self-Concept | We’re not Fat! We’re Fabulous | Orlando Counselor Therapist

Orlando Counselor Therapist Is bigger better? Some fuller figured women are repulsed by the thought of using plus sized models for product ads. Various studies show that body image is directly related to self-esteem issues in young women; however, [...]

Orlando Counselor on how Childhood Sexual Abuse Colors The World Dark

Orlando sexual abuse trauma counselor offers advice on how sexual abuse untreated effects the future of abuse victims.  Childhood sexual abuse has only become a societal issue in the past several decades. Consequently there is a lack of research, [...]

Baby Boomers & Midlife Crisis | 5 Tips to Survive the Aging Process | Jada Jackson

Baby Boomers & Midlife Crisis | Tips to Survive the Aging Process When baby-boomer sex symbol Meryl Streep hit the silver screen as Miranda Priestly in the blockbuster movie “Devil Wears Prada,” no one would have guessed that the generation [...]

Orlando Counselor asks 12 Media Self-Esteem Test Questions | How Media Influences Body Image

Orlando Self Esteem Counselor Images of the female body are used to market everything! Toothpaste, shampoo, cola and sports cars! Beautiful women—and every body part—sell almost anything from potato chips to sport cars. Female celebrities and entertainers are becoming [...]

Fires, Floods and Hurricanes | Trauma Therapist 3 Tips To Cope with Loss

Hurricanes, flooding and fires. Nearly 10,000 people were told to evacuate northeastern states due to flooding. The fires in Texas have left 1,000's displaced from their homes. The daily news in the past three weeks has been a constant barrage [...]

Counselor | 6 Warning Signs of Body Dysmorphic Disorder BDD – Plastic Surgery: How Much is Too Much?

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful. —PLATO There were close to 16 million cosmetic surgeries in the U.S. last year. Are we obsessed with  beauty? Dr. Nancy [...]

6 Teen Suicide Prevention Tips and Suicide Plan | Recognizing and Protecting Against Suicidal Ideation in Teens

Recognizing and Protecting Against Suicidal Ideation in Teens "One in six!" That's how many high school students reported having serious suicidal ideation in a U.S.-wide survey in 2015 (Kann, 2016). In other words, over 16% of high school students in [...]

7 Tips to Keep your New Year’s Resolutions | Forbes | Marriage Counselor Daily Buzz TV

2019 New Year's Resolutions | 7 Tips to Keep your New Year's Resolutions | Forbes Did you make a New Year’s Resolution for 2019? If you did, there is a strong possibility that you will not see it through to [...]

3 Reasons Spouses Commit Facebook Affairs | Relationship Counselor

3 Reasons Spouses Cheat on Facebook - Social Network or Human Nature? Emotional affairs, high school flames, college sweethearts, and hooking up behind closed doors! Since Facebook, the flood gate of social affairs has taken the 'opportunity for infidelity' to [...]

4 Tips for PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms | Ariana Grande on CNN from Suicide Bombing

Recently singer Ariana Grande released to CNN about suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder from witnessing a suicide bombing that killed 22 people at her concert in Manchester, United Kingdom in 2017. PTSD - post-traumatic stress disorder is as the name [...]

Fox 35 Interviews ADHD Student: NPR Study shows ADHD Linked to Diet

Orlando ADHD Counseling Expert Jim West interviewed by Fox 35 News Great Dietary ideas for Students to improve Test Anxiety, Short Term Memory, Mood Control and Energy! Diet is also effective for ADHD or ADD, Anxiety, Bi-Polar Disorder, and [...]

To Divorce, or not to Divorce? | University of Minnesota Report | Marriage Counselor on Reasons why couples are changing their minds

To Divorce, or not to Divorce? That is the Question | 3 reasons why couples are changing their minds about divorce Marriage and Family therapist William Doherty from the University of Minnesota presented research studies proposing that reconciliation has become [...]

A.D.D. Leading to Child Suicides

According to a recent study, A.D.D. (Attention Deficit Disorder) is the most typical diagnosis among children under 12 years of age who commit suicide. Few children from ages 5 to 11 commit suicide and not much is known regarding these [...]

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Suicide Prevention: You Can Make a Difference

Suicide: one of the few remaining taboo subjects in polite society. It’s a tragic topic and not one people what to discuss but with the World Health Organization reporting approximately one death every 40 seconds due to suicide, it is [...]

Hurricane Harvey | 5 Tips to Deal with Grief and Loss When Tragedy Hits

We are never prepared for tragedy. It has been 12 years since a category 3 or stronger has made landfall in the United States. There has been more than 40 inches of rainfall in southeast Texas since Thursday evening. Just to get an idea — the average YEARLY rainfall for Houston is 49.76 inches.

4 Reasons Why Social Media Leaves Us Feeling Dissatisfied | Orlando Therapist

Social media is bringing us closer than ever before, but is it making us overwhelmingly happier? The answer is no, according to studies done on the effects of sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat on users. Increased time spent [...]

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