Holiday Stress and Family Dynamics: A Therapist’s Guide to Maintaining Balance
Coping With Depression: Strategies to Use at Home
Sometimes life's challenges can feel overwhelming, leaving you clouded by a sense of helplessness and exhaustion. You may find yourself caught in a loop of negative emotions, unsure of how to break free. When depression dims the vibrancy of your daily life, it's crucial to find small, manageable ways to bring back light and color. Simple acts of...
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Trauma and the Benefits of Counseling
Receiving counseling for past traumatic experiences can be difficult. The reason for this is due to the fact that the essence of change can be terrifying for a person. It also can be difficult for a client to have enough trust in a counselor to divulge the information...
Exploring the Mind-Body Connection: Anxiety
It’s perfectly normal to feel anxious, especially when stressful life changes occur. However, some people may become overwhelmed with anxiety and it begins to interfere with their personal lives. These people may be struggling with an anxiety disorder. Many studies...
Exploring the Mind-Body Connection: Depression
Depression is a mental illness that impacts mind, body, and spirit, and can cause patients to feel like their lives and minds are out of their control. But physical ailments such as pain, exhaustion, and muscle fatigue are also common in patients battling depression....
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Partner Choice and Stages in Relationships
The choice of intimate others in relationships appears to be influenced by two important needs whose...
Everything That You Need to Know about Premarital Counseling Part 2
Getting married is an exciting time, you’ve found the one person who makes you indescribably happy, and that...
Attachment Styles in Intimate Relationships
The capacity to make meaningful intimate bonds is a key feature of healthy personality functioning. The...
Trauma and Psychotherapy
The word trauma comes from a Greek word meaning wound. In psychiatry, the term refers to an experience that...
Cognitive (Thought) Distortions and Core Beliefs
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how our thoughts affect our view of ourselves, of others and of...
Everything That You Need to Know about Premarital Counseling Part 1
Most engaged couples don’t think about it, but when you are planning your wedding, are you also preparing...
When Can a Couples Counselor Help?
Couples counseling can prove to be beneficial for couples in a variety of different stages of life, from...
Couples Counseling – Not Just for Couples in Crisis
Couples therapy can be an intimidating issue to discuss. When you think of couples therapy, you may conjure...
Why Couples Counseling Is Effective
Couples counseling is for anyone seeking relationship improvement, whether the relationship is going...
An Integrative Approach to Anxiety Therapy
Anxiety is part of everyday life, and everyone experiences anxiety and fear from time to time. Mild worry,...
Depression: A Treatable Problem
Most of us experience some type of depression as we face life’s challenges. Depression can be mild,...
Stillness and Tranquility: Recovery and Restoration
Developing the virtues of stillness and tranquility is essential for recovery and restoring our strength and...
About A Caring Approach
Dr. Durana draws on a wide variety of successful psychotherapeutic methods when working with patients. A combination of holistic therapeutic services may be needed to confront the challenges in your life, and A Caring Approach will help you create your own wellness strategy using methods to manage your progress.
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