The Power Of Positive Affirmations

Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. No matter your education, income, social standing or any other metric you care to name, the simple fact is that life can be tough. Dealing with that reality can at times...

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...

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...

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...

How Grieving Leads To Healing

Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. There is quite a bit of wisdom in the observation that love and grief are two sides of the same coin. If you love someone, you will eventually grieve their loss (or they will...