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Tips & Guides

What Happens in Anxiety Therapy for Panic Attacks

Panic attacks can feel sudden, frightening, and intensely physical. A racing heart, dizziness, chest discomfort, shaking, nausea, numbness, or trouble catchi...

September 5, 20265 min read

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Tips & Guides

Back-to-School Anxiety: When Durham Counseling Can Help

Back-to-school anxiety can show up after the first bell, not just before it. In Durham, many families notice that the return to classes brings excitement alo...

September 4, 20265 min read

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Tips & Guides

The Seasonal Shift and Depression Therapy in Durham

Seasonal changes can affect your mood, energy, sleep, routines, and motivation, even when Durham still has plenty of warm fall days. A noticeable emotional s...

September 4, 20265 min read

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Tips & Guides

Can Family Therapy in Durham Ease Back-to-School Conflict?

New backpacks? Check. School supplies? Check. Seventeen forms you forgot you needed to sign before 7:42 a.m.? Also check.

August 14, 20266 min read

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Career Coaching

Questioning Your Career After Burnout? What Therapists See

Questioning your whole career when you are burned out makes a lot of sense. When you drag yourself through your workday, dread opening your email, and feel y...

August 14, 20268 min read

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Career Coaching

How NC Therapists Can Ethically Add Career Coaching to Therapy

The school supply lists are out. Somewhere in your house there is a kid who has gone quiet, or stopped sleeping well, or started asking a lot of questions ab...

August 13, 20268 min read

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Career Coaching

From Career Indecision to Action: Therapist-Coach Decision Tree

Feeling stuck in your career can be exhausting. You might keep scrolling job sites, daydreaming about quitting, or second-guessing every idea you have, and s...

August 5, 20268 min read

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Career Coaching

Signs Your Career Is Hurting Your Mental Health and When Coaching Helps

Work is allowed to be stressful sometimes, but it is not supposed to feel like it is swallowing your whole life. When your Sunday night is full of dread, you...

July 15, 20267 min read

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Career Coaching

Career Crossroads: Support for LGBTQIA+ Adults and Therapists in NC

Career crossroads are those moments when work just does not feel "right" anymore. You might be staring at your performance review, scrolling job boards late ...

July 15, 20267 min read

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Tips & Guides

Why Summer Is the Smartest Time for Psychological Evaluations

When a child struggles in school, many families feel the stress long before they feel ready to act. Maybe teachers have mentioned concerns, homework takes ho...

July 15, 20266 min read

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Career Coaching

When Career Coaching with a Therapist Supports Major Life Transitions

Big career changes can shake your whole world, not just your workday. Graduations, job shifts, relocations, and new starts can feel exciting and also really ...

July 8, 20266 min read

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Career Coaching

Inside Career Coaching with Psychologists in Chapel Hill NC

Feeling stuck at work can sneak up on you. One day you are walking past campus in Durham, watching new grads take photos on the quad, and you notice a tight ...

July 2, 20267 min read