Loyal Blue Counseling, Author at Loyal Blue Counseling

The Psychology of Returning: Inner World, Meet Outer World

This isn’t your basic comeback, what we are trying to do. I’ve written about personal comebacks before. This is more than recovering from the depression of so much loss, the…

By Loyal Blue Counseling August 23, 2021Anxiety, Covid, Habit & Time Management, Self-Help

Anxiety Depression Grief and Loss News & Research

What Working At a Hospital Taught A Therapist About Resilience

As human beings, we experience fear that horribly unexpected life-altering events might happen to us. This fear often manifests itself by provoking catastrophic thoughts. For example, “this bump on my…

By Loyal Blue Counseling July 21, 2021Anxiety, Depression, Grief and Loss, News & Research

CBT in Action

What Makes A Good Therapist?

We at Loyal Blue are dedicated to the practice of good therapy. We believe it is our duty as trained behavioral health experts to use evidence-based approaches like cognitive behavioral…

By Loyal Blue Counseling June 28, 2021CBT in Action

Anxiety CBT in Action Covid Depression Parenting Relationships Self-Help Students

Radical Acceptance! What Is It And How To Practice It

Having lived through a pandemic, we all learned a thing or two about radical acceptance without even knowing it. It took many of us weeks to months to accept the…

By Loyal Blue Counseling May 26, 2021Anxiety, CBT in Action, Covid, Depression, Parenting, Relationships, Self-Help, Students

Anxiety Covid Depression Self-Help

Aging Well – What It Means And How to Do It

We know a lot about aging well, both physically and mentally — and this blog post is about that, looking through the lens of the past year. Does what we…

By Loyal Blue Counseling March 17, 2021Anxiety, Covid, Depression, Self-Help

Parenting Relationships Self-Help

Tantrums vs. Meltdowns: How To Help Your Child (And Yourself)

Strategies For Your Family To Effectively Deal With Tantrums and Meltdowns — If you are like most parents, you have probably had the experience of a crying, screaming, tantruming child…

By Loyal Blue Counseling February 24, 2021Parenting, Relationships, Self-Help

Anxiety Covid Self-Help

End of 2020…and now 2024: How To Deal

Update November 2024: This post is from December 2020, but the concepts remain the same as we close out 2024. See if you can use these road-tested ideas to get…

By Loyal Blue Counseling November 2, 2020Anxiety, Covid, Self-Help

clock on a wall, desk with plant and lamp

Habit & Time Management Self-Help Students

Procrastination Doesn’t Have To Be Your Enemy

Hey guys, it’s midterm season. When I was in college and printing a finished paper (believe it, we used to print papers), you’d have found two things to be true…

By Loyal Blue Counseling October 19, 2020Habit & Time Management, Self-Help, Students

Anxiety CBT in Action Covid Depression

Does Therapy Even Work During Overwhelming Times?

Our counseling practice is not new to personal suffering caused by World Problems. I have counseled clients who are victims of hate crimes and those who were disturbed following elections, those…

By Loyal Blue Counseling June 25, 2020Anxiety, CBT in Action, Covid, Depression

Anxiety Covid Depression Self-Help

Special Post #3: Where Sadness, Waiting, and Hope Meet

On Wednesday we received official word that schools in our area won’t reopen for the year. While nobody was surprised, I did feel more than justified in having pancakes for…

By Loyal Blue Counseling April 4, 2020Anxiety, Covid, Depression, Self-Help