anxiety counseling

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Four Tools To Help Manage A Panic Attack

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Four Tools To Help Manage A Panic Attack

People often use the terms “anxiety attack” and “panic attack” interchangeably but in reality, they are very different. If you have experienced the debilitating intensity of a panic attack, you’re familiar with the distress one can cause and the lingering worry that accompanies it’s passing. 

While anxiety has roots in future-oriented worry and manifests as a more low-level distress of extended duration, panic attacks are acute, coming on quickly and often without specific reason. Everyone experiences their own unique cluster of symptoms during a panic attack including both physical and emotional distress. 

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How Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Can Help Women With Anxiety

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How Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Can Help Women With Anxiety

Motherhood can feel like a constant flood of stress, overwhelm and anxiety. With all the loud noises, never ending requests for help, constant touching, and overstimulating toys, being a mom in and of itself can cause extreme anxiety. When anxiety isn’t dealt with it can cause additional problems such as panic attack disorder, depression, and chronic stress.


What do you do as a mom with anxiety when feel like you’ve tried everything to cope with the anxiety on their own? Online therapy using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) methods has been proven as an effective way to combat anxiety and reduce stress.

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Coping With the Stress of Motherhood: You’re Not a Bad Mom for Needing a Break

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Coping With the Stress of Motherhood: You’re Not a Bad Mom for Needing a Break

Many moms are beyond the point of needing a break from their kids. We are all exhausted and burned out from parenting the last two years. Yet despite the consensus that we are tired, I can’t tell you how many times I hear moms say, “I feel guilty for needing time alone and away from my kids. Shouldn’t I always want to be with my kids? I feel like I’m a bad mom for needing a break.”

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Coping With Burnout in Motherhood: How to Complete the Stress Response Cycle

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Coping With Burnout in Motherhood: How to Complete the Stress Response Cycle

The last two years have been filled with stressful situation after stressful situation for moms. Between frequent class quarantines, trying to work from home, and limited support from family and friends, many moms feel like they are emotionally and mentally hanging on by a thread. The stresses of the pandemic combined with the normal exhaustions of motherhood are enough to make any person feel like they are breaking. At times, it has been like a never-ending tsunami of overwhelm and anxiety.

While we would love to be able to wave a magic wand and make the stressors disappear, unfortunately that isn’t real life. Instead, learning to cope with the stress by completing the stress response cycle can help reduce the experience of burnout.

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Five Tools to Help Cope With Anxiety in the New Year

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Five Tools to Help Cope With Anxiety in the New Year

As 2022 rolls off to a fresh start, you may be reflecting on how to prioritize your mental health in the new year. Whether you’ve been dealing with anxiety for most of your life, or have found yourself feeling more anxious in the last two years than you ever have been, addressing your anxiety can have positive impacts on your mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Sometimes when you are feeling anxious, it can be overwhelming to know how to actually deal with it. Here are five tools to help you cope with anxiety in the new year.

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Hurricane Ida and COVID-19: The Perfect Storm for Mom Anxiety and Overwhelm

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Hurricane Ida and COVID-19: The Perfect Storm for Mom Anxiety and Overwhelm

Hey there, NOLA mom, how are you?

I’m going to guess the answer is, “I’m really not okay.” I hear ya. It has been a really rough last few months, and not many of us are “okay.” And guess what? THAT is okay!

To say that life has been rough since March 2020 is an understatement. Most of us have been operating in survival mode since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Between trying to figure out balancing the roles of homeschool teacher, childcare provider, and lunch and snack lady, plus working a full-time job and trying to keep the house in some kind of livable condition, there has been little physical and mental space to decompress and heal from the stress and trauma associated with COVID-19

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4 Tips for Coping With the Stress of a PCS as a Military Spouse  

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4 Tips for Coping With the Stress of a PCS as a Military Spouse  

For most families, the summer months are a time of vacation and relaxed schedules. But in the world of military families, the summer months are known as “PCS season.” A Permanent Change of Station (PCS) is most definitely not a stress-free time. Having PCS’d several times – and being currently neck-deep in the midst of one! – I know first-hand the amount of overwhelm, exhaustion, and anxiety that can come from a military move.

Coping With COVID-19 Anxiety As The World Opens Up

Coping With COVID-19 Anxiety As The World Opens Up

For over a year, we have been told that we need to stay apart, that in order to protect ourselves and our loved ones, we need to stay home, stay apart, and stay masked up. These protective steps have been vital in trying to slow the spread of COVID-19. But they’ve created a sense of chronic hypervigilance that can lead to anxiety.

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Should I Take Medication For My Anxiety?

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Should I Take Medication For My Anxiety?

While I believe it is important for every woman to make this decision for herself and choose whether or not taking medication for anxiety is the right choice for her, too often I see people making the decision to avoid medication based on poor information.

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Coping with Stress as a Mom During COVID-19

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Coping with Stress as a Mom During COVID-19

So many moms are still having to wear all the hats (work hat, chef hat, educator hat, etc.), while also navigating the numerous challenges COVID-19 brings to daily life. Many of us are experiencing COVID fatigue and feeling burnt out from parenting during a pandemic. And let me validate those feelings: This burnout is real.

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Postpartum Anxiety and Pandemic Worries

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Postpartum Anxiety and Pandemic Worries

Giving birth is anxiety-producing and so is a pandemic, so when you put the two together, it’s a recipe for postpartum anxiety. On top of worrying about all the things that come with being a new mom or adding to your family, you now have to worry about being exposed to COVID, socially distancing, and the complexities of introducing or not introducing your infant to your loved ones.

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How Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Can Help Your Anxiety

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How Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Can Help Your Anxiety

If you’ve ever searched for a therapist or counselor in New Orleans or Metairie, you’ve probably come across the terms “cognitive behavioral therapy,” or “CBT,” and may have wondered what the heck that is. Cognitive behavioral therapy is a style of therapy that can be very beneficial in treating anxiety. But what is it, and how does CBT work?

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Overcoming Self Judgment of Anxiety

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Overcoming Self Judgment of Anxiety

While the openness of people in the public spotlight has begun to normalize the discussions surrounding mental health struggles, in my conversations with friends and colleagues and in my work with clients, I have found that many of us still hold self-judgment and shame over our own struggles with anxiety and depression. As I’ve talked with other women, there are three common narratives many women seem to believe about themselves and their mental health that make acceptance of one’s anxiety and depression extremely challenging.

5 Ways to Cope with Anxiety During COVID-19

5 Ways to Cope with Anxiety During COVID-19

For us all, 2020 has certainly been a year that we will not quickly forget. When the coronavirus first hit, none of us predicted that life would look like it does today. “Oh, I can’t wait to be stuck in my house, homeschooling my kids, while trying to still get by, day by day, during a global pandemic with no end in sight,” said no mom ever. Yet, here we are – over two months into this life-altering time in history, and with little clarity on how life proceeds from here.

Coping With Anxiety: How Are You Practicing Brave?

Coping With Anxiety: How Are You Practicing Brave?

Ever since my son was able to walk, we’ve been going to the same playground regularly. He knows the different slides he likes, the stairs he religiously climbs again and again, and the swinging bridge he’s been too nervous to cross for months. It became almost comical how he would run up to this bridge, only to abruptly stop. Occasionally he would cautiously dip his toe on the bridge to assess his safety, and immediately turn around and head in the opposite direction. 

How to Find a Counselor or Therapist in Mililani, HI

How to Find a Counselor or Therapist in Mililani, HI

The Hawaiian Islands are among the most beautiful places in the world, which is why millions of people visit every year. The beauty of the people, the land, the spirit, the water is unparalleled. And for people on vacation, Hawaii allows them to escape the reality of life that awaits them back home. For those of us who live in Hawaii, life is not a constant vacation.

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