
Orlando Therapist Blog
Welcome! Here you will find resources for therapy Orlando, as well as posts related to anxiety therapy, trauma therapy, and toxic relationship therapy. Join us as we share tools for hope, healing, and transformation. Choose Mindful Living as a way of life! Click below to hop straight to our guided meditations:
Choosing Peaceful Relationships
Orlando relationship counselor providing tips for a peaceful relationship….
When an emotional reaction doesn’t seem to fit the situation, in other words, you have an overreaction to a situation, your emotions and reactions are tied up in the past somehow. You’ve stumbled upon an area that needs some healing work.
Use this mindfulness tool to help you exit the dreaded pattern of emotional overreaction.
Trauma Triangle: Moving from Chaos to Clarity
Trauma Therapy Orlando: Helps You Move from Chaos to Clarity in Your Relationships
You’re tired of all the relationship drama. You’re exhausted from the internal chaos and external angst. You’re ready to put the anxiety, overwhelm, doubt, and confusion behind you. Whether it is romantic, work, or friendship, you’re ready to have clarity and feel calm in your relationships.
As an anxiety therapist and relationship counselor, I help folks move from chaos to calm in their relationships (romantic or otherwise).
Guided Meditation for Anxiety: Relaxation Response
At Mindful Living Counseling Orlando, we provide grounding practices to our clients that struggle with anxiety and trauma. Guided Meditation is one of our favorite grounding techniques.
Trauma Triangle: Making Sense of the Chaos
Trauma Therapy Orlando: Making Sense of Chaotic Relationships
If you regularly feel guilty, bad, anxious, overwhelmed, angry, lost, or powerless in relationships (romantic or otherwise), seeing this discord through the lens of the trauma triangle can be life-changing. Yes, you read that right, this could Change. Your. Life. Once you can see what is happening and develop some tools to do something different, you will be able to experience connection without the chaos.
Orlando Therapist Discusses the 4 Qualities of a Healthy Relationship
Orlando Therapist Discusses the 4 Qualities of a Healthy Relationship
Feeling overwhelmed in your relationship? You want closeness and connection, but there seems to be some invisible forcefield preventing you from experiencing the closeness that you so deeply crave? Do you often wonder, “Is it me or my partner?” Or in moments of desperation, do you want to throw in the towel completely, thinking, “Maybe I’m just not meant to be in a relationship!?”
Orlando Therapist Shares 10 Traits of Emotionally Healthy People
Orlando Relationship Counselor offering you guidance on what emotionally healthy people look like….
As an Anxiety Therapist and Relationship Counselor in Orlando, I help folks wade through the murky waters of their overwhelming relationships. I help them put the pieces together and figure out what the heck is going on! In this post, I explore the healthy traits to look for in others and what to cultivate in yourself.
Orlando Therapist Shares: 10 Traits of Toxic People
10 Traits of Toxic People
Feeling overwhelmed and confused about your relationship? Do you often find yourself wondering, “Is it me or them?” Do you feel stuck in all the drama and can’t seem to make heads or tails of who is doing what to create all the discord?
Your relationship is supposed to feel like a nice warm hug at the end of a hectic day, a safe haven of sorts, from the crazy world we live in. But, if yours feels like you’ve cuddled up to a giant porcupine, you may be in a relationship with an emotionally unhealthy person.
Healing Intergenerational Trauma: A Snippet of My Story
Healing Intergenerational Trauma: A Snippet of My Story
Trauma is definitely generational. What we don’t heal, we pass on to our children. I have seen it in my own life and the life of my clients. It’s the painful truth.
Guided Meditation for Self-Forgiveness
Orlando Anxiety Therapist Providing a Guided Mediation for Self-Forgiveness
If you’ve realized it’s time to take steps toward self-forgiveness… I am happy you are here.
I have prepared this guided meditation to give you a space to unpack the behaviour that you are having difficulties forgiving yourself for, validate the need that was being met through the behaviour, and then let it go.
When you’re ready, get started below by listening to the guided visualization or by reading the script.
Anxiety Therapist: How to Forgive Yourself: 5 Simple Steps
Anxiety Therapist: How to Forgive Yourself: 5 Simple Steps
Having a forgiving perspective allows you to let go of the past, it paves the way to be more forgiving toward others, and breathes new life into old broken self-perspectives that just keep you stuck.
If you’ve extrapolated all the life lessons out of your checkered past and you’re continuing to beat yourself up for choices, it’s time to take steps toward self-forgiveness.
Alternative Treatments for Anxiety: Floating [Interview Series]
Looking for Alternative Treatments for Anxiety in Orlando?
Welcome to this blog series on alternative approaches for working with anxiety. In this series, I will highlight professionals and resources that help people who are struggling with anxiety feel settled and calm. This post will be highlighting East Coast Floats who use Floating and Infrared Saunas to help people experiencing anxiety, stress, and chronic pain!
Guided Meditation for Anxiety: Healing Light
Orlando Anxiety Therapist Providing a Guided Mediation for Anxiety
Did you know that there are scientific benefits to meditation? It is effective in helping to reduce stress, promote emotional health, enhance self awareness, and calm anxiety.
I love to share this tool with my clients as a means to calm their anxiety and I want to share it with you too! This particular meditation is great to do after a difficult event, disagreement, or challenging moment where you are feeling uncomfortable and anxious. It’s also a great meditation to do before bed.
Orlando Therapist: 15 Resources That Will Help Reduce Your Anxiety During COVID-19
Orlando Therapist: 15 Resources That Will Help Reduce Your Anxiety During COVID-19
I have created a quick list of a variety of resources that will be helpful in reducing your anxiety during COVID-19.
Anxiety Therapist Shares How to Deal with Stress and Anxiety
Anxiety Therapist: Shares How to Deal with Stress and Anxiety
I originally wrote this blog post on stress and anxiety prior to ever hearing about COVID-19. Now, just six short weeks later as I am getting ready to publish it, the entire world is impacted. My guess is, if you’ve taken a breath today, you’ve heard about the Coronavirus. This is the first time in my lifetime that the entire planet is experiencing the same stressor at the same time.
Meet our Orlando Therapists
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Elizabeth Yoak
Hi! I specialize in working with adults and teens struggling with anxiety, trauma, and depression.
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Shauna Hughes
Hi! I work with anxiety, trauma, relationships, and coping with autoimmune diseases.
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Lauran Hahn
Hi! I work with clients struggling with toxic relationship patterns, anxiety, and trauma.
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Susan Williams
Hi there! I specialize in working with teens, adults, and couples struggling with grief, anxiety, and trauma.
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Tristin McDermott
Hello! I specialize in working with teens with anxiety, trauma, and eating disorders.