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Nuevas Culturas y Como Nos Cambian

Únase a nosotros en este seminario web gratuito para aprender cómo las culturas cambiantes tienen efecto en nuestras familias. Aprenda cómo las diferentes culturas pueden cambiar la forma en que se desarrollan los niños. ¡Hay formas de ayudar a prosperar más unidos como familia y manejar emociones para crecer más fuertes! Conozca a nuestro equipo clínico de español que está disponible para ayudar a nuestra comunidad.
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14 Ways to Give

We’re committed to providing quality counseling services to anyone who comes to us for help. We live and work in diverse communities, encountering people of varying faiths, ethnicity, and economic status. The generosity of individuals, congregations, corporations, and foundations allow us to provide financial assistance to those in our community who would otherwise be unable to afford care. Here are 14 different ways to contribute.
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BIPOC Mental Health Myth-busting

In Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities, talking about mental health can be considered taboo. We'll uncover different “myths’’ that may exist in BIPOC communities about seeking mental health support and provide affirmations you can repeat to yourself to help you think positively about asking for help, even when you might hear messages saying the opposite.
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Real Talk About Mental Health

How to Get Help and Why People Don't: Discover the struggles many people face around getting help for mental health. Uncover the different types of help and where to get it, especially for people who might not know where to start. Address the common reasons people feel unsure about seeking help and how we can all help change that. Watch until the end for a mental health exercise!
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Free Webinar | Mental Health & HR: The Elephant in the Room

It is estimated that more than 20% of the population will experience a mental health concern in any given year. It's reasonable to expect that this will affect the workplace. Yet supervisors often feel inadequate when a staff member discloses a mental/behavioral health issue. Insight's therapists support HR professionals, department directors, and CEOs in navigating employee mental health concerns while creating a workplace environment that supports mental wellness.
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Focusing on the Future: Men’s Mental Health

I believe in focusing on the future instead of the past. I like to encourage my clients to work on finding the exceptions to the negatives in their stories, building on those exceptions in the present, and growing with them. Overall, the counseling process has 3 major steps.
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The Mental Health Challenges of New Parenthood

Awareness about the mental health challenges of new parenthood can start before your baby is born. Learn about postpartum depression, anxiety, and the transformative experience of "matrescence." We also highlight the factors influencing mental health and underscore the importance of social support and counseling for new parents.
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Living Your Best Life Now

How do we bridge generational gaps and connect with the people in our family? What can we do to heal from the mental and emotional wounds from our past? Can seeing a therapist really help us live our best lives now? In this panel discussion, we explore the unique struggles faced by adults aged 60 and over and the resources that are available for building mental, emotional, and spiritual strength and well-being.
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Look Around, Look Within

Where a person lives, as well as their economic stability and social connections, are part of what is called “social determinants of health." While many parts of your environment can be out of your control, there are steps you can take to change your space and protect your well-being.
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In the Aftermath of a Tragedy

This article is to serve as a resource for students, parents, teachers, administrators, first responders, and communities who witnessed or are directly affected by a school shooting. My hope is that I can shed light on the signs and symptoms that often follow crisis and how you or those you love can move toward healing and wholeness after tragic loss.
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This is the most popular 2023 New Year’s resolution in Tennessee

Last month, the job search website, Zippia, released results of a survey showing the most popular 2023 New Year’s resolutions, by state. I expected Tennessee’s top resolution to be “stop smoking,” “lose weight,” or “exercise more.” I was pleasantly surprised to see that along with 11 other states, Tennessee’s top resolution for 2023 is “therapy.”
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How to Start Therapy

Beginning counseling can feel like a big undertaking, and without some guidance, almost impossible for someone who is already overwhelmed. In this post, I would like to discuss some steps that may help you begin the process of finding a therapist that is right for you and entering a therapeutic relationship that is meaningful and healing.
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National Family Caregivers Month

National Family Caregivers Month -- celebrated each November -- is a time to recognize and honor family caregivers across the country. More than 50 million Americans provide crucial care and medical assistance to parents, children, siblings, or other loved ones. If you are a family caregiver, we want to connect you with information and resources that can help you maintain your mental health and better serve your loved ones.
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Living with Mistakes

I will never be perfect, but I like to treat mistakes as opportunities. They’re a chance to do better, a way to measure who I am against who I was. I believe a mistake does not define me; rather, it’s a chance to do better the next time.
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One Step at a Time: Navigating Life’s Twists and Turns

Life is like a labyrinth. If you’ve never walked a labyrinth, it’s an experience I highly recommend. Some might equate “labyrinth” with “maze,” but that is a misconception. A maze is designed with confusing paths and dead ends to trick, deceive, and keep one from finding the way. A labyrinth is quite different. It is not a puzzle meant to make one get lost. It’s a tool that helps us find our way – figuratively and literally.
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Grief & Remembrance

Benjamin Franklin once quipped that, “in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” While many Americans spend an entire season worrying about taxes, there are precious few days where we collectively reflect on death. In this post, I would like to begin by giving a very brief history of Memorial Day and then transition into a discussion on grief and the grieving process, of which, days of remembrance like today can play an important role for the bereaved.
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Matrescence: The Transition to Motherhood

I became a new mom last year, and while this past year has been the most incredibly rewarding, it has also been one of the most difficult and draining years as well.  The transition to motherhood is one that is celebrated for its beauty and awe, but many times it is also a transition fraught with anxiety, depression and even sometimes anger and disappointment. 
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Accepting the Things I Cannot Change… Including My Family! 

We come by our habits honestly. Whether it's been a few years since you left home or you're retired, the family that raised you matters. How you manage relationships, what you expect from life, and your view of God have been shaped by home. Dr. Amanda W. Myers, LMFT, examines the Serenity Prayer from the lens of acceptance and the context of changing those family nuances that are detrimental to your health in this recorded webinar.
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Mental Health for Faith Communities

How can faith community leaders and mental health practitioners work together for the mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being of the people they serve? In this hour-long recorded webinar, we discover how mental health concerns can impact faith communities, how faith communities can impact mental health, and how to determine when it’s appropriate to refer someone in your faith community to mental health services.
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Rediscovering Your Abundance

Your spirituality, faith, or religious tradition are part of the whole you. In this recorded webinar video, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Carol Smith, guides us through the questions: How can therapists help us heal from past spiritual wounds? What is spiritually-integrated psychotherapy? And how can we use our own spirituality and religious traditions to help strengthen and improve our mental health?
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Trauma: The Pain We Still Carry

A trauma event is one that the mind, body, and/or soul carries and translates into defense mechanisms. Those mechanisms can include defenses such as Repression, Internalization, Projection, Rationalization, and Denial. Monét C. Shell, therapist at Insight Counseling Centers, explores the types of traumas presented by Black clients in therapy.
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Webinar Video: Self-Sabotage

Self-sabotaging behaviors create problems for us in daily life and ultimately prevent us from achieving our long-standing goals. The most common self-sabotaging behaviors include procrastination, self-medication with drugs or alcohol, comfort eating, and forms of self-injury such as cutting. In this webinar, Dr. Amanda W. Myers teaches us how to identify our self-sabotaging behaviors and shares tools for overcoming them.
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George Bailey & Me

I can't help but admire George Bailey. Truth be told, I aspire to be like him. He's one of those salt-of-the-earth people, who cares for others, seeks out ways to help where he can, and never seeks a reward. He doesn't think of himself as a hero, but in my book, he's heroic because he does what he can with what he has. Without a second thought.
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Webinar Video: Telehealth for Your Mental Health

Technology allows us to connect with each other in a lot of ways. Throughout the pandemic in particular, many people have been receiving mental health counseling online through telehealth. What is telehealth, and is it really as effective and secure as meeting with a therapist in person?
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Finding Gratitude in 2020

I don’t know about you, but I am tired of hearing and using the term “unprecedented times.” But really, how else can we describe 2020 using language appropriate for polite company? I recall this time last year when we were about to say “goodbye” to 2019. Businesses were gearing up with their “2020 Vision” themes, and many people were approaching the new decade with optimism. And then came March, which came in like a lion, but didn’t go out like a lamb.
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Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love

For me, the time between early November through the end of December holds special place in my heart and mind -- a season of reflection filled with hope for our best life. In addition to hope there are three other components of living a healthy life: they are peace, joy, and love.
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Provide the gift of comfort, hope, and perseverance

For some, the holiday season is not always met with the richness of love and joy surrounded by family and friends. Instead, it may be a time of loneliness, anxiety, and depression. However, your gift provides comfort and hope to many individuals knowing they can receive affordable counseling from our compassionate therapists.
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Webinar Video: The Importance of Practicing Self-Care & Gratitude

The webinar recording discusses self-care and gratitude as means to enhance mental health, especially relevant given the high anxiety levels in America. Insight counselors Hannah Feliciano and Amanda Gibson share research, practical tools, and personal experiences, emphasizing their positive effects on well-being and overall mental health.
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How Gratitude Improves Mental Health

Gratitude is all about the expression of appreciation. We appreciate people, things, and experiences that we come across in our lives; and, as it turns out, this expression of gratitude can benefit us mentally, physically, and emotionally. Several studies over time have shown the benefits that come along with openly practicing gratitude. People who are grateful are happier, sleep better, and even live longer. We don’t practice gratitude because we live happy lives; we live happy lives because we practice gratitude.
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Good Friendships Improve Your Mental Health

I will never forget the moment my best friend Cassie looked at me and said, “You are depressed, and I’m tired of us not talking about it.” I was shocked. I had spent the last several months trying to portray the positive, upbeat person that most of my friends knew me to be. Everyone around me thought I was having a great time! Everyone except for Cassie, who somehow had the ability to read me like a book.
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Recovering from Trauma

It's likely that trauma has touched all of our lives, whether through our own experiences or the experiences of people we know. Over 70% of adults in the United States have experienced trauma at some point in their lives. The biggest question, though, is how do we cope with the trauma we go through? Once we have made it through our experiences, we must then take a look at what the healing process looks like, and how we move forward.
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Owning Your Feelings

It can be easy to get caught up in your emotions as you’re feeling them. Most people don’t think about what emotions they are dealing with, but taking the time to really identify what you’re feeling can help you to better cope with challenging situations.
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Leaning into Your Strengths & Resources

When life gets difficult, where do you find peace and hope? What sustains you? Is there anybody who truly understands your situation? All of us have strengths and resources we use to get through hard times, to feel good, and to flourish. Taking time to identify and remember these resources will benefit your mental health!
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What helps us through Depression?

Depression is common, but the experience of depression doesn’t feel common. In depression, you feel lonely, isolated, overwhelmed, and afraid. This state of being is exhausting. The everyday tasks of maintaining your life become unbearably painful. Vitality is lost and you feel like a burden and a fraud. Or you simply don’t feel at all.
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“People want to be remembered.”

Written by Pam Brown, ACC, CFRE Last week I visited with a long-time supporter of Insight Counseling Centers. Her support goes all the way back to our agency’s founding more than 30 years ago. Insight recently received a shipment of coffee mugs and I wanted her to have one. I put together an arrangement of flowers and greenery from my garden so that the mug could serve as a cute little vase. When I arrived at the appointed time, her…

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Something All New Clinicians Need

My time as a master’s intern at Insight Counseling Centers was a phenomenal experience. The first thing that stood out to me was the professional community that the other counselors, supervisors, and staff created. The second thing that stood out is the development opportunities provided by Insight.
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Coping with Change and Transition

We work through transitions in different ways. When facing an expected or unexpected change, we often question our beliefs and capabilities, and we may second-guess our decisions. Fear can become a barrier to positive change. Here are some ideas and coping strategies that many people have found helpful when dealing with change and life’s transitions.
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Ask a Therapist: Depression

Millions of individuals in the U.S. each year suffer from depression, making it one of the most prevalent mental health concerns. It’s likely that you know and love someone who is affected by it. Maybe you have experienced firsthand some of the symptoms, when handling daily activities becomes a struggle, affecting every aspect of your life.
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Suicide Prevention Starts with a Conversation

Nationally, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death claiming approximately 41,149 lives per year across all ages. These numbers are devastating not only because of their enormity, but because of the fact that suicide is preventable. We can all do something to stop these numbers from rising, and it starts with education -- learning what to watch for, listen for, and knowing how/where to get help. We have to “know” before we can act.
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Speaking of Therapy

Since joining Insight Counseling Centers in January, I've become more attuned to the ways in which therapy and therapists are portrayed in the media. Media representation is important because if all someone knows about therapy is what they see on TV shows and in film, they might develop unrealistic expectations around what therapy is like and how therapists behave.
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Survivors of Suicide: Moving Through Grief

Suicide leaves in its wake a host of family, friends, and others affected by tremendous and sudden loss. How can these survivors of tragedy move forward with their lives? The work of grieving is different for each individual. For some, it takes months; for others, years. The phases of grief are best thought of as fluid, rather than static and predictable.
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Six Core Principles of a Healthy Couple

When we fall in love, we usually gravitate toward someone who is like us in some ways but different in others. At first this attraction seems ideal, but within about 6-18 months of the relationship the differences will initiate conflict. It is important to normalize these differences and to accept each other, warts and all.
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Immigration and Trauma

“People feel differently about issues around immigration. My job as a counselor is to be present and listen to my clients’ concerns, to help them make a safety plan for their family so that if something happens to them, their kids (who were born here) don’t end up in the system. At the same time, we’re working through their trauma.”
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Divine Difference

What would it be like to live in a world where our differences are experienced not as that which divides us from one another, but rather as an invitation to recognize and name with confidence the beautiful ways in which we really are nothing alike?
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On Knowing Better

Though we are made in the image of God, in this life we remain imperfect. There will always be broken places in us that cause us and others undue pain and regret. But guess what— there is grace for our broken places.
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Counseling Unconditionally

Each time I agree to sit with a client, I am invited to share in the depth of that client’s story. If I am doing my job well, the relationship deepens as more is revealed about the person in front of me. Part of the healing for that person involves them feeling heard and understood as they share the twists and turns of hurts and struggles by someone who does not rush to make judgement, but allows the story to unfold.
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About Our Logo

Our emblem is in the style of a form called a Mobius strip. The 3-dimensional band of color flows from the outside of the circle to the inside of the circle and back out, seamlessly and endlessly. In his book A Hidden Wholeness, author Parker Palmer uses the Mobius strip as a metaphor to illustrate wholeness: Whatever is inside us continually flows outward to help form, or deform, the world -- and whatever is outside us continually flows inward to…

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