Pandemic-Induced Boozing: No Laughing Matter

Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. There’s been a lot of dark humor expressed over the last year. It’s only natural — “gallows humor” is a hallmark of people in every culture in every age. You’ve probably...

Change Is Inevitable – Seize The Opportunity

Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. There has been much written about the challenges we’ve faced over the last year. With vaccines available to all adults in America, though, and life beginning to return to a...

Getting Back To Normal? Not So Fast.

Family Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. For the last several months the idea of getting back to normal has been like a tantalizing dream. But as more and more people became vaccinated that dream has steadily...

Is There Such A Thing As Pandemic PTSD?

Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. Everyone has their own personal story about life during the pandemic. Emotional and psychological reactions run the gamut. For some people life wasn’t greatly disturbed. For...

Has Loneliness Become A Problem?

Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. It’s been over a year since governmental officials reacted to the pandemic by imposing lockdowns and encouraging many forms of social distancing. Most people cooperated and...

Grieving In The Age Of Covid

Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. When people think of grieving, they often picture someone who has lost a loved one. Mourning someone who has died is certainly one type of grieving. Also, if someone has a...

Conquering Anxiety

Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. Almost everyone suffers from some level of anxiety at one time or another. That’s normal because anxiety is the body’s natural reaction to stress or threats. An anxiety...

Leaving Loneliness Behind

Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. As more and more people are vaccinated, lockdowns ease and our social life begins to return to normal, many people are confronted by a feeling they may not have fully...

How To Flourish Despite Adversity

Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. If there’s one thing we’ve learned in the past year, it’s that adversity tests our resilience. The pandemic affected people very differently. While some people lost...