Counseling Phoenix Archives
Your heart is racing and you have no idea why. You are sitting at your desk, or driving, or lying in bed, and your chest feels tight, like something is pressing on it from the inside. Maybe your stomach will not settle before an ordinary meeting that should not matter this much. Maybe you cannot catch a full breath, and for a moment you genuinely wonder if something is wrong with your heart. If this has been…
You’ve done the reading. You know CBT is well-supported, you’ve decided it sounds like the right fit, and you still have basically no idea what you’re actually signing up for. “Structured and goal-oriented” is the phrase that comes up everywhere, and it tells you almost nothing about what actually happens once you’re sitting across from a CBT therapist in Phoenix, week after week. That gap, between the description and the lived experience, is what this page is…
A lot of people who’d genuinely benefit from support never look for it. Not because the option isn’t there, but because some part of them has already decided their situation doesn’t qualify. Nothing dramatic happened. Nobody else would really call it trauma. Someone else clearly had it worse, so what right do you have to still be affected by this? That quiet self-disqualification is often the actual reason someone never looks for a trauma therapist in Phoenix,…
Starting therapy is hard enough without adding a maze of insurance terms on top of it. If you’re searching for an in-network therapist in Phoenix or Arizona, here’s the short answer: in-network means the therapist has a contract with your insurer to charge a set rate, so you pay a predictable copay instead of the full fee out of pocket. That’s the core of it. Below, we’ll cover what that actually means for your costs, how to…
Abby Hauer, MC, LAC Everyone on the face of earth deals with stress. Stress is a normal part of life and almost each day we may be faced with a different stressor. But how do we recognize when this daily stress has turned into something we can no longer manage? Burnout is a different feeling than stress because we are physically and emotionally exhausted, we may dread each day, and we are no longer able to give…
Abby Hauer, MC, LAC I would like to preface this blog by sharing with you that I used to roll my eyes when someone would mention mindfulness – I just did not buy into it. However, Mindfulness has been proven to be effective time and time again through research. But what the heck is it? Before I was able to understand mindfulness, I had to first understand what self-compassion was. Self-Compassion and Mindfulness, Part I: What Does…