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M.Ed, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Georgia Southern University

Depression often causes people to feel sad, empty, or hopeless, and can cause a lack of interest in life. It can also affect a person's thinking patterns and physical health.

Depression

Anxiety can mean nervousness, worry, or self-doubt. Anxiety disorder is a mental health disorder that entails excessive, repeated bouts of worry, anxiety, and/or fear.

Anxiety

Refers relationship issues with a partner or spouse. Can include issues related to relationship distress, relationship satisfaction, communication, intimacy, etc.

Relationship Issues

Self-esteem is the degree to which a person feels confident, valuable, and worthy of respect. Feeling low self-esteem can influence overall well-being and be linked to anxiety and/or depression.

Self-Esteem

Sexuality refers to habits and preferences in terms of sexual behavior, which people express in many ways. Issues in this area may be related to confusion or distress about sexuality or sexual identity.

Sexuality Based Issues

ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) causes a hard time focusing attention and controlling restless or impulsive behavior. People with ADHD might have emotional outbursts, be forgetful, and/or find it difficult to stay organized.

ADHD

Adoption and foster care considerations include education on the process, integrating the new family, establishing household rules and boundaries, processing past trauma on behalf of the child, emotional health, and other adjustment procedures.

Adoption & foster care

It's normal to experience anger at times, but for some, it becomes so frequent, intense, or difficult to control that it negatively affects their life. Anger management is a structured therapeutic approach toward reducing one’s anger to a point where more appropriate coping and/or conflict management skills are used. Beliefs and thoughts leading toward anger outbursts are explored while healthy coping and interpersonal skills are put into practice.

Anger management

Characterized by alternating symptoms of depression and mania. During more extreme episodes, depression may lead to the point of suicidal ideation and attempts while extreme bouts of mania are marked by impulsive behavior, lack of sleep, elevated esteem, and even psychosis.

Bipolar disorder

Involves a person sacrificing their needs to meet the needs of others. Their thoughts and actions center on a significant other, spouse, friend, or relative. Becomes an issue when relationships are unbalanced and unhealthy.

Codependency

Source of communication challenges in circumstances and relationships that can have a negative impact on mental health. Misunderstandings and misinterpretations often lead to arguments in personal, platonic, or professional relationships.

Communication issues

Involves physical, sexual, or emotional abuse within the context of a family or relationship. Can happen to any gender, age, ethnicity, etc. and is often related to power dynamics and an abuse of power.

Domestic violence

Transgender or gender non-confirming people experience the same mental health issues as anyone else. For some, however, social stigma, discrimination, oppression and the effort of understanding one’s authentic self can lead to anxiety or depression.

Gender identity & transgender health

Reacting quickly without regard for consequences as a response to internal or external events. Impacts relationships and daily life and could be a symptom of personality disorders, bipolar disorders, substance use issues and more.

Impulse control issues

Difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking frequently. While it can be a normal response to stress, it can also lead to feelings of dissatisfaction and distress, as well as behavioral difficulties.

Sleep & insomnia issues

Fear is characterized by unpleasant feelings associated with the real or perceived threat of danger. Phobias, although they may stem from traumatic experiences, are oftentimes irrational fears of things that are unlikely to cause harm. Phobic individuals experience intense, debilitating bouts of fear that compromise overall well-being. Common phobias include social phobias, agoraphobia, acrophobia, pteromerhanophobia, and claustrophobia.

Phobias & fears

PTSD is a condition that is precipitated by a perceived terrifying event. This event need not occur directly to the person but may happen vicariously—having seen something terrible happen to another person. The condition may last months or years while symptoms include ruminating thoughts, flashbacks, nightmares, intense anxiety when triggered, and potential substance abuse in attempt to cope.

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Psychotic disorders are characterized by a disconnect from reality that stems from maladaptive thinking and perceptions. Primary symptoms include delusions and hallucinations. Common psychotic disorders include brief psychotic disorder, delusional disorder, paraphrenia, psychotic disorder due to a medical condition, schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder, and substance-induced psychotic disorder.

Psychotic Disorders

Schizophrenia is diagnosed on a spectrum dependent upon the type, number, and severity of symptoms. Primary symptoms include delusions and hallucinations, disorganized behavior and speech, and negative symptoms. Individuals struggle to behave, feel, and think clearly. The condition is treatable but not curable.

Schizophrenia

Behavioral disorders involve a pattern of disruptive behaviors that cause problems in school, at home, and in social situations. Can include hyperactivity, impulsivity, defiant behavior, chronic patterns of aggression, defiance, disruption, and/or hostility.

Behavioral Issues

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Psychotherapy focused on the interaction between thought and behavior. Examines negative thought patterns with the goal of changing responses to negative stimuli. Often used to treat depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Mindfulness Practices

Interactive therapy that explores the unconscious mind using guided art techniques like painting and sculpting. Uses creative expression as a means to treat symptoms of anxiety and depression, manage addiction, and explore emotions.

Art Therapy

Therapy used to treat enduring mental health issues associated with a history of abuse or neglect. Cultivates skills related to compassion for self and others to regulate mood and promote feelings of safety and well-being.

Compassion-Focused Therapy

Skill-based therapy focused on communication, management, and validation of painful emotions. Four key areas include mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Often used to treat depression, bulimia, binge-eating, bipolar disorder, and substance abuse.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Short-term form of therapy focused on adult relationships. Explores patterns to create more secure bonds, rebuild trust, and reduce stress, helping people understand their emotions and communicate their needs in relation to each other.

Emotionally Focused Therapy

Addresses behavior and emotions of family members/partners and how they affect one another. Therapy is given to individuals and groups. Used to treat conflict and uncover the impact of mental disorders on the group.

Marriage and Family Therapy

Form of counseling that helps people resolve ambivalence and insecurity into the motivation to meet specific goals like sobriety. Utilizes collaborative conversation, recognizing how difficult change can be while fostering an atmosphere of acceptance.

Motivational Interviewing

Promotes emotional growth and expression through the practice of listening to, reflecting on, and creating music. Often used in conjunction with other therapies to help alleviate symptoms of anxiety, depression, trauma, and dementia.

Music Therapy

Non-authoritative approach allowing the person or client to take the lead in the process of self-discovery and healing. Therapist facilitates the conversation with complete acceptance and a lack of interference.

Person-Centered Therapy

Guided conversational approach to helping people solve problems and reduce suffering by concentrating on the present and desired future. Coaching and questioning is intended to lead people to next steps using skills they innately possess.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

Addresses emotional and mental health of kids, adolescents, and adults who struggle to overcome destructive effects brought on by trauma, which is especially devastating to youth with post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from abuse or grief.

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy

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Abuse includes any significant mistreatment along the lines of psychical, emotional, sexual, verbal, and neglect. Survivors of abuse may experience negative thoughts and feelings, flashbacks, distrust of others, social withdrawal, self-harm, and increased likelihood of developing mental health and substance abuse issues.

Abuse/Survivors of abuse

A diverse range of sexual orientations and gender identities present unique challenges in relation to coming out to family members, confusion with identity, stigma, discrimination, and oppression.

LGBTQIA related issues

Mood disorder is a broad term used to include the different types of depressive and bipolar disorders, all of which affect mood. With a mood disorder, your moods may range from extremely low to extremely high or irritable.

Mood disorders

Trauma is the result of experiencing a perceived, extremely distressful event. Although the stress threshold for each person differs, meaning that each person considers and experiences trauma differently, it is an event that tops one’s threshold. It exceeds one’s ability to cope or emotionally process. Symptoms may include shock, anxiety, confusion, hopelessness, feeling disconnected, mood swings, nightmares, and intrusive thoughts.

Trauma

Coping skills are tools and techniques one can learn, practice, and use to handle difficult emotions, decrease stress, and establish or maintain a sense of internal order.

Lindsay Pearl MimsLMHC

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