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Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Children and Adolescent Counseling
“No ones’ going to harm you – not while I’m around”. A song from the Broadway show Sweeny Todd is also a phrase parents use to help children feel safe and at ease. Ensuring a child is safe from monsters under the bed or beasts in the closet, because you are in the next room, …
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Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Children and Adolescent Counseling, Counseling, Individual Counseling, PTSD Counseling
Why do we keep talking about the coronavirus? Because unlike the flu, to-date, there is no vaccine, it is easily spread from person to person, it affects the mental well-being of the sick and the healthy, and it can be life-threatening to family, coworkers, neighbors, and friends. In 2020, the mental health community added COVID-19 …
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Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Children and Adolescent Counseling, Counseling, Individual Counseling, Therapy
“To be or not to be, that is the question?” is a question far too many Americans are asking themselves as we face a worldwide pandemic. As state, county, city, and local governments formulate long and short range plans – applicable to the needs of their specific communities, many within those communities are experiencing mental …
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Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Children and Adolescent Counseling, Love Languages
Parenting is amazing. And I think we can all agree that parenting is hard. With so many different suggestions, trends, and experts, on top of friends and family voicing their opinions, it is hard to decide what will work for you. That is why I like the simple concepts found in the Five Love Languages …
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Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Children and Adolescent Counseling, Individual Counseling
Back to school is going to look different for Oklahoma students. Some communities are rotating students on two-day/three-day schedules. Others are combining virtual with in person and others are going all virtual or all in person. Regardless of how school districts prepare, parents, teachers, and children are concerned, worried, and scared. Each state is releasing …
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