Therapy Chicago Archives
Matthew Cuddeback, LCSW Much of the world is shutting down around us to manage the difficult public health issue we have been experiencing. Many of us all around the world are experiencing massive shifts in how we are going about our daily lives in many large and small ways. One key piece of curbing the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) is something we have all become quite acutely aware of, Social Distancing. Below are a few key tips…
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I work with many clients who are very uncomfortable, anxious, depressed, and stressed when it comes to an upcoming weekend knowing they will be alone due to their friends and/or significant other being out of town or unavailable. As their clinical therapist, my job is to better understand possible reasons why the client struggles with being alone and also possible coping skills to help them better cope with the weekends or days that they will likely be…
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Bridgette W. Gottwald, LPC, NCC A recent study proves that politics are “exacting a toll on the social, psychological, emotional and even physical health” for tens of millions of Americans. That’s right, people are losing teeth, damaging their interpersonal relationships, losing sleep, getting higher doses of anxiety and depression medications, and experiencing physical problems due to the stress that politics brings about. In fact, politics serves as a “source of stress for 38% of Americans.” Findings of…
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Andrew McNaughton, LCSW, CADC I don’t know if I still have the scrap of paper I wrote out all of my debts and APR interest rates on that early March 2018 morning, but the information I gathered forever changed my life. As I said in Part One of this blog, the numbers were grim, however in choosing to reject both the Snowball and Avalanche methods of debt repayment, I instead chose the practical approach by prioritizing my…
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Andrew McNaughton, LCSW, CADC Late one restless night in March 2018, I made the decision to finally get out of credit card debt, which I eventually accomplished in one year. This two-part blog is meant to inspire, not to gloat. I recognize I am lucky to have had the opportunity to do this for myself, and I accomplished it with some rational and practical approaches to overcome urges to engage in catastrophic thinking as well as not…
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In Part 1 of this blog, a brief background understanding was explored of the issue of student loan stress as well as ways to emotionally handle and keep perspective about the issue rather than getting overwhelmed. This second part will look at practical ways about how to the manage student loans. Of course everyone’s financial situation is different, depending on the amount of total student loan balance they have, if their parents assisted, if they are paying…
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Do you find it hard to speak up for yourself or advocating for yourself for important matters? Do you find it difficult to speak up for yourself when you have an opinion or want to change something that’s important to you but feel “stuck” inside yourself? Do you wish so badly that you could just get the words out, or have the confidence to speak up for yourself in a way that’s important to you? Speaking up…
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Coursera is a great online tool for learning; it offers up a world of learning to people who cannot afford a college education, and it provides ongoing learning opportunities for people who do have college degrees but want to expand their range of personal and professional interests. The information found below is compiled from Yale University’s The Science of Well-Being course, taught by Dr. Laurie Santos, and gives you a taste of the great information found on…
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Coursera is a great online tool for learning; it offers up a world of learning to people who cannot afford a college education, and it provides ongoing learning opportunities for people who do have college degrees but want to expand their range of personal and professional interests. The information found below is compiled from Yale University’s The Science of Well-Being course, taught by Dr. Laurie Santos, and gives you a taste of the great information found on…
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Matthew Cuddeback, LCSW When therapists are meeting with a client for the first time one of the questions we ask, in some form, is what the client feels they need to work on, what brought them in. It is intended to provoke a few things, ultimately, therapists look at everything as information and without judgement. So, I am listening for information that tells me where the client is focused, but also how they think about their life…
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