Experiencing the loss of a loved one is an inevitable part of life. During such challenging times, understanding the grieving process can provide solace and support. The Kübler-Ross Model of grief, developed by psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, offers valuable insights into the emotional journey we as individuals can undergo when facing loss.

EMDR for trauma is a type of psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of trauma or adversities such as issues of abuse, bullying, domestic violence, grief, abandonment, and attachment wounds.

While we can't necessarily stop our brains from perceiving “things that are out of our control” as danger that will trigger anxiety, we can control our responses once anxiety shows up and we can also retrain our brains to not perceive a lack of control as anxiety.

Sunday evening can feel like time where you are just waiting for that inevitable moment when the weekend is over, but Sundays also have potential to be relaxing and fun.

Getting ghosted doesn’t usually feel good, and it can be hard to get closure without having an idea of what happened or why.

When individuals are struggling with emotional regulation, their emotions feel very out of control to them. In young children, this can look like throwing tantrums, refusal behaviors and excessive worrying. Struggling to regulate emotions is pretty common, even us adults struggle with it at times. However, it is pretty easy to teach kids skills which help them to regulate their emotions.

Love Maps are a basic way of getting to know someone and in the case of longer-term relationships, a way of finding out new things about someone or discovering that things may have changed since you last talked about them. While love maps were developed for married couples, they can be used to build closeness in any relationship, like getting to know a new friend!

The difference between the typical stress of the adjustment period of starting a new school year and burnout is how long these symptoms accumulate without adequate strategies or support for coping with the stress. If people are not able to successfully cope, they can end up suffering mentally, physically, and emotionally for months or years on end, which is not sustainable to our wellbeing.

To help improve your therapy experience, we have come up with a list of some things that our therapists would like you to know about the therapy process at Champaign Counseling.

Fight, Flight, and Freeze are the three responses that are biological instincts to protect us when our lives are in danger. However, what we find sometimes is that we experience fight, flight, or freeze even when there is not a threat to our lives.