Professional Online Counseling Directory

2025-12-31T11:34:00.000-08:00

Why Online Counseling?

Online counseling can be an effective and anonymous way to receive support and guidance to work on your problems.

Online counseling generally refers to the provision of professional mental health services concerns via internet communication technology. It is often called e-therapy, etherapy, e-counseling, online therapy, or coaching. Services are typically offered via email, real-time chat, and video conferencing. Some clients use online counseling in conjunction with traditional psychotherapy, and others use it as an occasional check-in tool for their lives.

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Abuse
Addiction
Adjustment Disorders
Anger
Anxiety
Anxiety Disorders
Assertiveness
Attachment Disorders
Attention Deficit Disorder
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

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Bereavement
Bipolar Disorder
Blended Families
Burnout

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Career Counseling
Childhood Abuse
Christian Counseling
Codependency
Communication
Counseling
Couples Counseling
Crisis Intervention

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Depression
Dis-ease
Dream Analysis
Dysfunctional Families

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Eating Disorders
E-mail Counseling
EMDR

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Faith-Based Coaching
Family

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Gay and Lesbian Issues
Gender Issues
Grief

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Hypnotherapy

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Identity Issues
Industrial Psychology
Infidelity
Insomnia
Internet Addiction

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Loss
Love Addiction

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Marriage
Mindfulness Based Interventions

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Online Psychology

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Pain Disorders
Panic Attacks
Parenting
Personal Growth
Personality Disorders
Phobias
Positive Thinking
Psychotic Disorders
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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Relationships

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Self-Esteem
Self-Harm
Self-mutilation
Sex Therapy
Sexual Abuse
Sexual Identity
Sexual Problems
Sexuality
Shyness
Social Isolation
Social Phobias
Social Psychology
Spiritual
Stress
Suicide

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Trauma
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Vocational Psychology

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Weight Related Issues
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2025-12-30T11:39:00.000-08:00

Abuse

What is Abuse?

Abuse is a pattern of behavior in which physical violence and/or emotional coercion is used to gain or maintain power or control in a relationship. A single incident of assault also constitutes abuse.

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2025-12-29T19:12:00.000-08:00

Addiction

What is Addiction?

The term "addiction" is used in many contexts to describe an obsession, compulsion, or excessive psychological dependence, such as: drug addiction (e.g. alcoholism, nicotine addiction), problem gambling, crime, money, work addiction, compulsive overeating, Oniomania (compulsive shopping), computer addiction, video game addiction, pornography addiction, television addiction, etc.

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2025-12-28T15:09:00.000-08:00

Adjustment Disorders

What is Adjustment Disorder?

In psychology, adjustment disorder (AD) is a classification of mental disorder that is a psychological response from an identifiable stressor or group of stressors that causes significant emotional or behavioral symptoms that does not meet criteria for more specific disorders. Adjustment Disorders may also be acute or chronic, depending on whether it lasts more or less than six months.

The diagnostic criteria in the DSM-IV are:

A. The development of emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to an identifiable stressor(s) occurring within three months of the onset of the stressor(s).

B. These symptoms or behaviors are clinically significant as evidenced by either of the following:

C. The stress-related disturbance does not meet the criteria for another specific Axis I disorder and is not merely an exacerbation of a preexisting Axis I or Axis II disorder.

D. The symptoms do not represent Bereavement.

E. Once the stressor (or its consequences) has terminated, the symptoms do not persist for more than an additional six months.

The six types of adjustment disorder are:

Adjustment disorder with depressed mood. Symptoms mainly include feeling sad, tearful and hopeless, and a lack of pleasure in the things you used to enjoy.

Adjustment disorder with anxiety. Symptoms mainly include nervousness, worry, difficulty concentrating or remembering things, and feeling overwhelmed. Children who have adjustment disorder with anxiety may strongly fear being separated from their parents and loved ones.

Adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood. Symptoms include a mix of depression and anxiety.

Adjustment disorder with disturbance of conduct. Symptoms mainly involve behavioral problems, such as fighting, reckless driving or ignoring your bills. Youngsters may skip school or vandalize property.

Adjustment disorder with mixed disturbance of emotions and conduct. Symptoms include a mix of depression and anxiety as well as behavioral problems.

Adjustment disorder unspecified. Symptoms don't fit the other types of adjustment disorders but often include physical problems, problems with family or friends, or work or school problems.

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2025-12-27T15:29:00.000-08:00

Anger

What is Anger?

Anger is an emotion. The physical effects of anger include increased heart rate, blood pressure, and levels of adrenaline and noradrenaline.[1] Some view anger as part of the fight or flight brain response to the perceived threat of harm.[2] Anger becomes the predominant feeling behaviorally, cognitively, and physiologically when a person makes the conscious choice to take action to immediately stop the threatening behavior of another outside force.

Passive Anger:

Secretive behavior

Psychological manipulation

Self-blame

Self-sacrifice

Ineffectualness

Dispassion

Obsessive behavior

Evasiveness

Aggressive Anger:

Threats

Hurtfulness

Destructiveness

Bullying

Unjust blaming

Manic behavior

Grandiosity

Selfishness

Vengeance

Unpredictability

Anger disorder, more properly known as Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED) is a psychological condition characterized by sporadic episodes of aggression, violence, and destructive behavior. People who suffer from anger disorder are unable to control themselves, exploding with rage in a way which is often out of proportion to the event which triggered the anger. Like many psychological disorders, IED can be treated with help from a psychological professional, but first it needs to be identified as a problem and diagnosed.

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2025-12-26T15:56:00.000-08:00

Anxiety / Anxiety Disorders

What is Anxiety?

Anxiety is a psychological and physiological state characterized by cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components. These components combine to create an unpleasant feeling that is typically associated with uneasiness, fear, or worry. Anxiety is a generalized mood condition that occurs without an identifiable triggering stimulus.

Anxiety disorders are often debilitating chronic conditions, which can be present from an early age or begin suddenly after a triggering event. They are prone to flare up at times of high stress and are frequently accompanied by physiological symptoms such as headache, sweating, muscle spasms, palpitations, and hypertension, which in some cases lead to fatigue or even exhaustion.

Generalized Anxiety disorder (GAD)

A common chronic disorder characterized by long-lasting anxiety that is not focused on any one object or situation. Those who suffer from generalized anxiety experience non-specific persistent fear and worry and become overly concerned with everyday matters. Generalized anxiety disorder is the most common anxiety disorder to affect older adults.

Panic Disorder

A person suffers from brief attacks of intense terror and apprehension, often marked by trembling, shaking, confusion, dizziness, nausea, difficulty breathing. These attacks can last for several hours and can be triggered by stress, fear, or even exercise; although the specific cause is not always apparent. In addition to recurrent unexpected panic attacks, a diagnosis of panic disorder also requires that said attacks have chronic consequences: either worry over the attacks' potential implications, persistent fear of future attacks, or significant changes in behavior related to the attacks.

Phobia

The single largest category of anxiety disorders, which includes all cases in which fear and anxiety, is triggered by a specific stimulus or situation. Sufferers typically anticipate terrifying consequences from encountering the object of their fear, which can be anything from an animal to a location to a bodily fluid.

Agoraphobia

A specific anxiety about being in a place or situation where escape is difficult or embarrassing. Agoraphobia is strongly linked with panic disorder and is often precipitated by the fear of having a panic attack. A common manifestation involves needing to be in constant view of a door or other escape route. In addition to the fears themselves, the term agoraphobia is often used to refer to avoidance behaviors that sufferers often develop.

Social Anxiety Disorder

Also known as social phobia and describes an intense fear of negative public scrutiny or of public embarrassment or humiliation. This fear can be specific to particular social situations (such as public speaking) or, more typically, is experienced in most (or all) social interactions. Social anxiety often manifests specific physical symptoms, including blushing, sweating, and difficulty speaking.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

A type of anxiety disorder primarily characterized by repetitive obsessions (distressing, persistent, and intrusive thoughts or images) and compulsions (urges to perform specific acts or rituals). The OCD thought pattern may be likened to superstitions insofar as it involves a belief in a causative relationship where, in reality, one does not exist.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

An anxiety disorder which results from a traumatic experience. Post-traumatic stress can result from an extreme situation, such as combat, rape, hostage situations, or even serious accident. It can also result from long term (chronic) exposure to a severe stressor. Common symptoms include flashbacks, avoidant behaviors, and depression.

Separation Anxiety Disorder

A feeling of excessive and inappropriate levels of anxiety over being separated from a person or place. Separation anxiety itself is a normal part of development in babies or children, and it is only when this feeling is excessive or inappropriate that it can be considered a disorder. Separation anxiety disorder affects roughly 7% of adults and 4% of children, but the childhood cases tend to be more severe, in some instances even a brief separation can produce panic.

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2025-12-25T18:46:00.000-08:00

Assertiveness

What is Assertiveness?

Assertiveness is a trait taught by many personal development experts and psychotherapists and the subject of many popular self-help books. It is linked to self-esteem and considered an important communication skill.

To assert is to state an opinion, claim a right, or establish authority. If you assert yourself, you behave in a way that expresses your confidence, importance or power and earns you respect from others.

Assertiveness is standing up for your right to be treated fairly. It is expressing your opinions, needs, and feelings, without ignoring or hurting the opinions, needs, and feelings of others.

An assertive style of behavior is to interact with people while standing up for your rights. Being assertive is to one's benefit most of the time but it does not mean that one always gets what he/she wants. The result of being assertive is that:

Assertive people have the following characteristics:

They feel free to express their feelings, thoughts, and desires.

They know their rights.

They have control over their anger. It does not mean that they repress this feeling. It means that they control it for a moment and then talk about it later in a reasoning manner.

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2025-12-24T19:13:00.000-08:00

Attachment Disorder

What is Attachment Disorder?

Attachment disorder is a broad term intended to describe disorders of mood, behavior, and social relationships arising from a failure to form normal attachments to primary care giving figures in early childhood, resulting in problematic social expectations and behaviors. Such a failure would result from unusual early experiences of neglect, abuse, abrupt separation from caregivers after about six months but before about three years, frequent change of caregivers or excessive numbers of caregivers, or lack of caregiver responsiveness to child communicative efforts. A problematic history of social relationships occurring after about age three may be distressing to a child, but does not result in attachment disorder. There are two types of attachment disorder: inhibited and disinhibited.

A distinguished characteristic of the inhibited type is that the child persistently fails to initiate and to respond in a developmentally appropriate fashion to most social interactions. The child shows a pattern of excessively restrained, hyper vigilant, or highly ambivalent and contradictory responses (e.g. the child may respond to caregivers with a mixture of approach, avoidance, and resistance to comforting, or may exhibit frozen watchfulness).

The disinhibited type is characterized by a pattern of diffuse attachments manifested by indiscriminate sociability and an inability to exhibit appropriate selective attachments (e.g., excessive familiarity with relative strangers or lack of selectivity in choice of attachment figures).

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2025-12-23T19:24:00.000-08:00

ADD/ADHD

What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?

ADHD predominantly inattentive (ADHD-PI or ADHD-I) is one of the three subtypes of Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

While ADHD-PI is sometimes still called attention deficit disorder or ADD by the general public, these older terms were formally changed in 1994 in the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV).

ADHD-PI is different from the other subtypes of ADHD in that it is characterized primarily by inattention, easy distractibility, disorganization, procrastination, forgetfulness, and lethargy (fatigue), but with less or none of the symptoms of hyperactivity or impulsiveness typical of the other ADHD subtypes.

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD or AD/HD) is a neurobehavioral developmental disorder. ADHD is primarily characterized by the co-existence of attentional problems and hyperactivity, with each behavior occurring infrequently alone. While symptoms may appear to be innocent and merely annoying nuisances to observers, if left untreated, the persistent and pervasive effects of ADHD symptoms can insidiously and severely interfere with one's ability to get the most out of education, fulfill one's potential in the workplace, establish and maintain interpersonal relationships, and maintain a generally positive sense of self.

ADHD has three subtypes:

1. Predominantly hyperactive-impulsive

Most symptoms (six or more) are in the hyperactivity-impulsivity categories.
Fewer than six symptoms of inattention are present, although inattention may still be present to some degree.

2. Predominantly inattentive

The majority of symptoms (six or more) are in the inattention category and fewer than six symptoms of hyperactivity-impulsivity are present, although hyperactivity-impulsivity may still be present to some degree.
Children with this subtype are less likely to act out or have difficulties getting along with other children. They may sit quietly, but they are not paying attention to what they are doing. Therefore, the child may be overlooked, and parents and teachers may not notice symptoms of ADHD.

3. Combined hyperactive-impulsive and inattentive

Six or more symptoms of inattention and six or more symptoms of hyperactivity-impulsivity are present.
Most children with ADHD have the combined type.

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2025-12-22T09:42:00.000-08:00

Bereavement

What is Bereavement, Grief and Loss?

Bereavement often refers to the state of loss, and grief to the reaction to loss. Bereavement, while a normal part of life, carries a degree of risk when limited support is available. Severe reactions to loss may carry over into familial relations and cause trauma for children, spouses and any other family members: there is an increased risk of marital breakup following the death of a child, for example. Issues of faith and beliefs may also face challenge, as bereaved persons reassess personal definitions in the face of great pain.

Grief is a multi-faceted response to loss, particularly to the loss of someone or something to which a bond was formed. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, and philosophical dimensions.

Parents may grieve due to permanent loss of children through means other than death (i.e. loss of custody in divorce proceedings; legal termination of parental rights by the government; through kidnapping; because the child voluntarily left home; or because an adult refuses or is unable to have contact with a parent.

Loss reactions may occur after the loss of a romantic relationship, a vocation, a pet, a home, children leaving home (empty nest syndrome), sibling(s) leaving home, a friend, a favored appointment or desire, a faith in one's religion, etc.

Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross posited sequential stages of grief including denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, which are commonly referred to as the "grief cycle".

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2025-12-21T09:59:00.000-08:00

Loss

What is Bereavement, Grief and Loss?

Bereavement often refers to the state of loss, and grief to the reaction to loss. Bereavement, while a normal part of life, carries a degree of risk when limited support is available. Severe reactions to loss may carry over into familial relations and cause trauma for children, spouses and any other family members: there is an increased risk of marital breakup following the death of a child, for example. Issues of faith and beliefs may also face challenge, as bereaved persons reassess personal definitions in the face of great pain.

Grief is a multi-faceted response to loss, particularly to the loss of someone or something to which a bond was formed. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, and philosophical dimensions.

Parents may grieve due to permanent loss of children through means other than death (i.e. loss of custody in divorce proceedings; legal termination of parental rights by the government; through kidnapping; because the child voluntarily left home; or because an adult refuses or is unable to have contact with a parent.

Loss reactions may occur after the loss of a romantic relationship, a vocation, a pet, a home, children leaving home (empty nest syndrome), sibling(s) leaving home, a friend, a favored appointment or desire, a faith in one's religion, etc.

Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross posited sequential stages of grief including denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, which are commonly referred to as the "grief cycle".

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2025-12-20T09:58:00.000-08:00

Grief

What is Bereavement, Grief and Loss?

Bereavement often refers to the state of loss, and grief to the reaction to loss. Bereavement, while a normal part of life, carries a degree of risk when limited support is available. Severe reactions to loss may carry over into familial relations and cause trauma for children, spouses and any other family members: there is an increased risk of marital breakup following the death of a child, for example. Issues of faith and beliefs may also face challenge, as bereaved persons reassess personal definitions in the face of great pain.

Grief is a multi-faceted response to loss, particularly to the loss of someone or something to which a bond was formed. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, and philosophical dimensions.

Parents may grieve due to permanent loss of children through means other than death (i.e. loss of custody in divorce proceedings; legal termination of parental rights by the government; through kidnapping; because the child voluntarily left home; or because an adult refuses or is unable to have contact with a parent.

Loss reactions may occur after the loss of a romantic relationship, a vocation, a pet, a home, children leaving home (empty nest syndrome), sibling(s) leaving home, a friend, a favored appointment or desire, a faith in one's religion, etc.

Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross posited sequential stages of grief including denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, which are commonly referred to as the "grief cycle".

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2025-12-19T10:03:00.000-08:00

Bipolar Disorder

What is Bipolar Disorder?

Bipolar disorder or manic-depressive disorder (also referred to as bipolar affective disorder or manic depression) is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated energy levels, cognition, and mood and one or more depressive episodes.

The elevated moods are clinically referred to as mania or, if milder, hypomania. Individuals who experience manic episodes also commonly experience depressive episodes or symptoms, or mixed episodes in which features of both mania and depression are present at the same time. These episodes are usually separated by periods of "normal" mood, but in some individuals, depression and mania may rapidly alternate, known as rapid cycling. Extreme manic episodes can sometimes lead to psychotic symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations.

The disorder has been subdivided into bipolar I, bipolar II, cyclothymia, and other types, based on the nature and severity of mood episodes experienced; the range is often described as the bipolar spectrum.

Bipolar I disorder: This type is defined by one or more manic episodes. Subcategories specify whether there has been more than one episode, and the type of the most recent episode. A depressive or hypomanic episode is not required for diagnosis, but it frequently occurs.

Bipolar II disorder: This type is defined by no manic episodes, but one or more hypomanic episodes and one or more major depressive episode. However, a bipolar II diagnosis is not a guarantee that such an episode could occur in the future. Hypomanic episodes do not go to the full extremes of mania, and this can make bipolar II more difficult to diagnose, since the hypomanic episodes may simply appear as a period of successful high productivity and is reported less frequently than a distressing, crippling depression.

Cyclothymia: This types is defined by a history of hypomanic episodes with periods of depression that do not meet criteria for major depressive episodes. There is a low-grade cycling of mood which appears to the observer as a personality trait, and interferes with functioning.

Bipolar Disorder NOS (Not Otherwise Specified) is a catchall category, diagnosed when the disorder does not fall within a specific subtype. It can still significantly impair and adversely affect the quality of life of the patient.

Depressive episode

Signs and symptoms of the depressive phase of bipolar disorder include persistent feelings of sadness, anxiety, guilt, anger, isolation, or hopelessness; disturbances in sleep and appetite; fatigue and loss of interest in usually enjoyable activities; problems concentrating; loneliness, self-loathing, apathy or indifference; depersonalization; loss of interest in sexual activity; shyness or social anxiety; irritability, chronic pain (with or without a known cause); lack of motivation; and morbid suicidal ideation. In severe cases, the individual may become psychotic, a condition also known as severe bipolar depression with psychotic features.

Manic episode

Mania is the signature characteristic of bipolar disorder, and depending on its severity, is how the disorder is classified. Mania is generally characterized by a distinct period of an elevated, expansive, or irritable mood state. People commonly experience an increase in energy and a decreased need for sleep. A person's speech may be pressured, with thoughts experienced as racing. Attention span is low and a person in a manic state may be easily distracted. Judgment may become impaired; sufferers may go on spending sprees or engage in behavior that is quite abnormal for them. They may indulge in substance abuse, particularly alcohol or other depressants, cocaine or other stimulants, or sleeping pills. Their behavior may become aggressive, intolerant or intrusive. People may feel out of control or unstoppable. People may feel they have been "chosen," are "on a special mission," or other grandiose or delusional ideas. Sexual drive may increase. At more extreme phases of bipolar I, a person in a manic state can begin to experience psychosis, or a break with reality, where thinking is affected along with mood. Many people in a manic state experience severe anxiety and are very irritable (to the point of rage), while others are euphoric and grandiose.

Hypomanic episode

Hypomania is generally a mild to moderate level of mania, characterized by optimism, pressure of speech and activity, and decreased need for sleep. Generally, hypomania does not inhibit functioning like mania. Many people with hypomania are actually in fact more productive than usual. Some people have increased creativity while others demonstrate poor judgment and irritability. Many people experience signature hypersexuality. These persons generally have increased energy and tend to become more active than usual. They do not, however, have delusions or hallucinations. Hypomania can be difficult to diagnose because it may masquerade as mere happiness, though it carries the same risks as mania. Hypomania may feel good to the person who experiences it. If unaccompanied by depressive counterpart episodes or otherwise general irritability, this behavior is typically called hyperthymia, or happiness, which is of course perfectly normal. Indeed, the most elementary definition of bipolar disorder is an often "violent" or "jarring" state of essentially uncontrollable oscillation between hyperthymia and dysthymia.

Mixed affective episode

In the context of bipolar disorder, a mixed state is a condition during which symptoms of mania and clinical depression occur simultaneously (for example, agitation, anxiety, aggressiveness or belligerence, confusion, fatigue, impulsiveness, insomnia, irritability, morbid and/or suicidal ideation, panic, paranoia, persecutory delusions, pressured speech, racing thoughts, restlessness, and rage).

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2025-12-18T10:44:00.000-08:00

Blended Families

What is a Blended Family?

A blended family, also known as a stepfamily or reconstituted family, is a family in which one or both members of the couple have children from a previous relationship. The member of the couple to whom the child is not biologically related is the stepparent, specifically the stepmother or stepfather.

The Cinderella effect is a term used by psychologists to describe the high incidence of stepchildren being physically abused, sexually abused, neglected or murdered, or otherwise mistreated at the hands of their stepparents at significantly higher rates than their genetic counterparts.

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2025-12-17T10:49:00.000-08:00

Career Counseling

What is Career Counseling?

Career counseling and career coaching are similar in nature to traditional counseling. However, the focus is generally on issues such as career exploration, career change, personal career development and other career related issues. Typically when people come for career counseling they know exactly what they want to get out of the process, but are unsure about how it will work.

Career counselors work with people from various walks of life such as adolescents seeking to explore career options, or experienced professionals contemplating a career change. Career counselors typically have a background in vocational psychology or industrial/organizational psychology.

The approach of career counseling varies, but will generally include the completion of one or more assessments. These assessments typically include: cognitive ability tests and personality assessments. The two most commonly used assessments are: The Strong Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).

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2025-12-16T19:52:00.000-08:00

Childhood Abuse

What is Childhood Abuse?

Child abuse is the physical, sexual or emotional mistreatment of children. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) define child maltreatment as any act or series of acts of commission or omission by a parent or other caregiver that results in harm, potential for harm, or threat of harm to a child.

Most child abuse occurs in a child's home, with a smaller amount occurring in the organizations, schools or communities the child interacts with. There are four major categories of child abuse: neglect, physical abuse, psychological/emotional abuse, and child sexual abuse.

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2025-12-15T19:56:00.000-08:00

Christian Counseling

What is Christian Counseling?

Christian counseling is counseling which draws upon psychology and Christian teaching. Efforts to combine counseling with Christian or other religious perspectives or approaches are sometimes called "integration".

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2025-12-14T20:05:00.000-08:00

Faith-Based Coaching

What is Faith-Based Coaching?

Faith-based Coaching supports and challenges religious leaders and spiritual seekers to clarify and practice their faith in every aspect of their lives: at work, at home, and at play. Drawing on the wisdom of life coaching, Zen training, and spiritual direction it is both practical and spiritual.

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2025-12-11T20:08:00.000-08:00

Communication

What is Communication?

Communication Counseling can provide a new perspective to help you communicate more effectively professionally, socially, and personally.

Being an effective communicator takes real skill. Communication skills have to be developed, honed and added to on an on-going basis. They are the heart of interpersonal skills and the greater your awareness of how it all works, the more effective your communication will be.

Types of skills include:

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2025-12-10T20:27:00.000-08:00

Codependency

What is Codependency?

Codependency or codependence is a tendency to behave in overly passive or excessively caretaking ways that negatively impact one's relationships and quality of life. It also often involves putting one's needs at a lower priority than others while being excessively preoccupied with the needs of others. Codependency can occur in any type of relationship, including in families, at work, in friendships, and also in romantic, peer or community relationships. Codependency may also be characterized by denial, low self-esteem, excessive compliance, and/or control patterns.

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2025-12-09T20:30:00.000-08:00

Counseling

What is Counseling?

Counseling is an interaction between a professional or trained individual and a patient, intended to help the latter solve difficulties in psychosocial adjustment. It is a process in which the counselor, or therapist, helps you understand the causes for your problems and guides you through the process of learning to make good life decisions. Counselors may also advise, opine, and instruct, in order to direct another's judgement or conduct.

Modalities:

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2025-12-08T20:38:00.000-08:00

Depression

What is Depression?

Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity. A depressed person will experience or display some of the following:

- Persistent sadness, anxiety or feelings of emptiness
- Feelings of hopelessness, helplessness and/or pessimism
- Feelings of worthlessness or guilt
- Contemplating suicide or suicide attempt
- Problems concentrating
- Remembering details and making decisions
- Fatigue and loss of energy
- Persistent aches
- Pains or digestive problems that are resistant to treatment
- Irritability or restlessness
- Insomnia, waking early, or excessive sleeping
- Overeating, or appetite loss
- Loss of interest in activities that once were pleasurable

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2025-12-07T20:54:00.000-08:00

Dream Analysis

What is Dream Analysis?

Dream interpretation is the process of assigning meaning to dreams. In many of the ancient societies, such as Egypt and Greece, dreaming was considered a supernatural communication or a means of divine intervention, whose message could be unravelled by those with certain powers.

Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Calvin S. Hall all developed dream theories.

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2025-12-06T20:59:00.000-08:00

Dysfunctional family

What is a Dysfunctional family?

A dysfunctional family is a family in which conflict, misbehavior, and often abuse on the part of individual members occur continually and regularly, leading other members to accommodate such actions. Children sometimes grow up in such families with the understanding that such an arrangement is normal. Dysfunctional families are primarily a result of co-dependent adults, and may also be affected by addictions, such as substance abuse (alcohol, drugs, etc.) Other origins include untreated mental illness, and parents emulating or over-correcting their own dysfunctional parents.

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Eating Disorders

What is an Eating Disorder?

Eating disorders are a group of conditions characterized by abnormal eating habits that may involve either insufficient or excessive food intake to the detriment of an individual's physical and emotional health.

Specific Types:

Anorexia nervosa (AN): a refusal to maintain a healthy body weight and an obsessive fear of gaining weight
Bulimia nervosa (BN): recurrent binge eating followed by compensatory behaviors such as purging (self-induced vomiting or excessive use of laxatives)
Binge eating disorder (BED): binge eating without compensatory behavior
Purging disorder: recurrent purging to control weight or shape in the absence of binge eating episodes
Rumination syndrome: repeated painless regurgitation of food following a meal which is then either re-chewed and re-swallowed, or discarded.
Diabulimia: deliberate manipulation of insulin levels in an effort to control their weight.
Food maintenance syndrome: is characterized by a set of aberrant eating behaviors of children in foster care.
Female athlete triad: a syndrome in which disordered eating behavior, amenorrhea and/or oligomenorrhea, and decreased bone mineral density (osteoporosis and osteoenia) are present (though not all patients exhibit all three components).
Eating disorders not otherwise specified: refers to a number of things. It can mean the individual suffers from anorexia but still gets their period; it can mean they may still be an "average healthy weight" but be suffering anorexia; it can mean the sufferer equally participates in some anorexic as well as bulimic behaviors (sometimes referred to as purge-type anorexia).
Pica: defined as a compulsive craving for eating, chewing or licking non-food items or foods containing no nutrition. These can include such things as chalk, plaster, paint chips, baking soda, starch, glue, rust, ice, coffee grounds, and cigarette ashes.
Night eating syndrome: consists of morning anorexia, evening polyphagia (abnormally increased appetite for consumption of food frequently associated with injury to the hypothalamus) and insomnia.
Nocturnal Sleep Related Eating Disorder
Compulsive exercising: excessive and compulsive exercise.
Orthorexia nervosa: an obsession with a "pure" diet, where it interferes with a person's life. It becomes a way of life filled with chronic concern for the quality of food being consumed. When the person suffering with orthorexia slips up from wavering from their "perfect" diet, they may resort to extreme acts of further self-discipline, including even stricter regimens and fasting.

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