Long Island Counseling Blog
Empathy or sympathy? The key to understanding the difference is focus. Whose feelings are the subject of focus? Whose experience is the subject of the interaction? Yours? SYMPATHY: When you hear distressing news from a friend such as a death in the family, what’s your response? Chances are your response is one of sympathy if the…
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What is Online Therapy? Therapy online is any therapy conducted outside of the traditional face-to-face arrangement. This includes therapy using the following platforms or modalities: -Telephone -Skype -FaceTime -Any other platform that permits two people to speak with one another. DIFFERENT PLATFORMS: On some of the platforms or modalities mentioned here, visual contact is available. …
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Welcome to all communities. Long Island Counseling proudly celebrates all of our neighbors and serves all who reach out to us with dignity and respect. We warmly welcome the Asian and South Asian communities, the African American Communities, the Greek and Middle-Eastern Communities, the Christian, Jewish and Muslim Communities into its growing and diverse practice.…
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People complain that therapy goes on “forever”. Freud himself wrote about the lengthy nature of psychoanalysis. He pointed out that a person needs time in treatment before becoming free of his or her symptoms of mental distress like depression, anxiety, fears, sexual issues, anger and so forth. Why does it take time to heal? REPETITION…
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The sexuality conversation: Gay. Lesbian. Straight. Bisexual. Transgender. Cisgender. Questioning. Are you having the sexuality conversation? Are your friends? Your kids? Are you confused about what you’re hearing? Are you distressed about what you’re feeling or thinking about? Do you want to have the sexuality conversation? WHAT IS GENDER IDENTITY? Gender identity is the gender…
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Post-partum depression affects approximately one in ten women after they’ve given birth. It’s an episode of major depression that follows the birth of a child. Many women are surprised at their feelings of anxiety and depression at a time many of them expected to feel nothing but the joy of being a new mother. This…
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According to the website MentalHealthAmerica.net, more than 2 million seniors in the United States suffer from depression. Those numbers are probably, in reality, much higher. Depression isn’t a natural part of growing older, and it’s a concern that more and more seniors are tackling head on. Many seniors are choosing to take part in psychotherapy…
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Therapy has always held a certain mystique. Some patients lay down on a couch. Some analysts don’t say a word. The office is dimly lit. Secrets are uncovered in a seemingly endless treatment. Age-old problems evaporate and childhood comes alive. Sex takes on new importance. Right? Not exactly. Let’s take another look. Myth #1 …
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What do we mean when we say “I’m unhappy”? or “I’m not happy”? And, what do we mean when we ask “How can I find happiness”? or “How can I be happier”? Happiness, as we know, is not necessarily jumping up and down with glee. And, it may not even be when we’re smiling. Most…
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Google “Depression” and you’ll find a lot of articles that describe depression. Articles listing symptoms such as lethargy, persistent sadness, numbness, or amplified negative emotions, changes in appetite and/or sleep patterns, decline in ability to focus or to attend to work and daily responsibilities, and a retreat from socializing. Other articles about depression list solutions…
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