Birmingham Therapists’ Blog
Psychiatry in Birmingham: What It Looks Like When Your Prescriber and Your Therapist Actually Talk
Psychiatry in Birmingham: What It Looks Like When Your Prescriber and Your Therapist Actually Talk Empower Counseling now offers psychiatry and medication management in Birmingham, Alabama. Dymond Callen, DMSc, PA-C, Psych CAQ, is a psychiatric physician assistant…
Empty Nest Support: ACT, EMDR, or IFS?
Feeling hollow after the empty nest? This guide explains ACT, EMDR, and IFS so you can match therapy to present, past, or inner conflict.
Mindfulness and Acceptance in Eating Disorder Recovery
Stuck replaying meals and living by food rules? Mindfulness and acceptance can help in eating disorder recovery and choose nourishing steps.
How to Choose a Therapist in Birmingham: Why Specialty Training Predicts Results Better Than Years of Experience
How to Choose a Therapist in Birmingham: Why Specialty Training Predicts Results Better Than Years of Experience. You are on a practice’s team page at eleven at night, scrolling the photographs, reading the credentials underneath them. Then you look at a face and…
ACT for Perfectionism: Self-Compassion in Practice
Paralyzed by your inner critic at night? Learn ACT for perfectionism with self-compassion practices to make space and act on what matters.
7 ACT Skills for Emotional Resilience in Recovery
Feeling a late-night craving? Learn seven ACT skills to notice urges, make room for feelings, and choose values-based recovery steps.
5 Tips for New Moms: How to Take Care of Yourself When Caring for a Newborn
5 Tips for New Moms: How to Take Care of Yourself When Caring for a Newborn. Everyone told you to sleep when the baby sleeps. Nobody told you that you would lie there wide awake listening for breathing. Everyone told you to take care of yourself. Nobody told you what…
Do I Need Medication Management in Addition to Therapy? How to Know When Therapy Alone Isn’t Enough
Do I Need Medication Management in Addition to Therapy? How to Know When Therapy Alone Isn’t Enough. It usually comes up around session six or seven, and it usually comes out sideways. “I don’t want to be on something for the rest of my life.”…
How ACT Builds Emotional Flexibility in Therapy
Lying awake, overthinking and bracing? ACT helps you make room for hard feelings, step back from thoughts, and choose value-driven actions.
5 Ways ACT Therapy Helps Couples Prepare for Parenthood
Tense about money, sleep, or parenting fights before baby? ACT therapy helps couples stay present, communicate, and act on shared values.
How to Use ACT to Build Psychological Flexibility
Learn how ACT builds psychological flexibility with 3 core steps: accept thoughts, choose values, and take action.
Low-level Depression: Do I Have This?
Low-level Depression: Do I Have This? “I’m not sad exactly. I’m just flat.” “Nothing is wrong. I just can’t feel much of anything anymore.” If you have been carrying a version of that for longer than you can quite place —…