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Covid 19 and College Students: 5 Reasons for Counseling with Empower Counseling in Birmingham, Alabama
Covid 19 and college student: 5 reasons they need counseling with Empower Counseling in Birmingham, Alabama. Covid has left it’s mark on everyone, but possibly no more on any other group than college students. Here 5 reasons why college students need counseling now...
Seek help for Anxiety Immediately: With Empower Counseling Birmingham Alabama
Seek help for anxiety immediately with Empower Counseling Birmingham, Alabama. Anxiety is quite common in the United States. Actually, anxiety affects 40 million adults in the U.S., making anxiety disorders the most common mental illness in our country. Anxiety is...
Our brains limit us: How Counseling with Empower Counseling in Birmingham, Alabama can help
Our brains limit us: How Counseling with Empower Counseling in Birmingham, Alabama can help. I was recently interviewed for an article entitled “Is it Possible to be Singe Forever?” By Sarah Nazim. When she asked me that specific question, “Is it possible to Stay...
How counseling for College Students in Alabama can help you through 2021
How counseling for college students in Alabama can help you through 2021. We all thought everything would be back to normal before now. What is the rest of this year going to look like? What is next year going to look like? What if there is a new normal? Our minds are...
4 Questions to ask yourself before starting anxiety therapy in Birmingham, Alabama
4 questions to ask yourself before starting anxiety therapy in Birmingham, Alabama. Anxiety disorders affect almost 1 in every 5 people over 18 in the United States. However, anxiety disorders are highly treatable. Kathryn Ely, of Empower Counseling, is advance...
Mindfulness Exercises: Empower Counseling in Birmingham, Alabama
Mindfulness exercises: Empower Counseling in Birmingham, Alabama. Mindfulness is one facet of Acceptance Commitment Therapy, an evidenced based therapy proven effective for anxiety and depression, offered by Empower Counseling. I wanted to share this helpful article...
Are you a perfectionist? 10 Questions to Ask Yourself by Empower Counseling in Birmingham
Are you a perfectionist? 10 questions to ask yourself to find out by Empower Counseling in Birmingham, Alabama. When I ask people if they think they are perfectionists, the common response is “I’m not a neat freak so, I’m not a perfectionist. Being a “neat...
The Trauma of Covid-19: Counseling for college students with Empower Counseling
The trauma of Covid 19: Counseling for college students with Empower Counseling. Samsa (Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration ) defines trauma as “an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as...
Languishing: What Empower Counseling Can Do to Help
Languishing: What Empower Counseling can do to help. Some experts say that “languishing” is the dominant emotion of 2021. Languishing is the result of the long pandemic. Languishing is considered that middle ground between thriving-the peak of mental wellbeing- and...
Acceptance Commitment Therapy with Empower Counseling: THE POWER OF LIVING YOUR VALUES
Acceptance Commitment Therapy with Empower Counseling: The power of living your values. Dealing with stress and anxiety can be paralyzing, keeping you from accomplishing what you want to accomplish in life. It can be absolutely debilitating. Running from and avoiding...
Acceptance Commitment Therapy with Empower Counseling can help you right now
Acceptance Commitment Therapy with Empower Counseling can help get back to living the life you want live right now.. Nothing about life has been ‘normal for over a year now. Covid-19 has made life difficult in so many ways. In some ways we have had to get back to the...
Online and In-person counseling for college students: Needed now more than ever by Empower Counseling
Online and in-person counseling for college students needed now more than ever, says Empower Counseling. Scholars have declared a mental health crises among college students 1. College students have lost focus. Most college students were quickly moved to online at the...