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No Insurance? Here’s How Oklahomans Are Still Getting the Therapy They Need

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Articles, Counseling, Insurance, Mental Health, Soonercare

Introduction No insurance means no therapy. It means putting it off until you get coverage, or letting it fall into the category of things you would do if your situation were different. That assumption is understandable. It is also, for most Oklahomans, incorrect. Not having insurance does not mean you cannot access mental health care. …

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Everyone Comes to You With Their Problems, But Nobody Asks How You’re Doing

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Articles, Counseling, Individual Counseling, Mental Health

Introduction Everyone depends on you. You show up. You hold things together. You are the one people call when things go wrong, and the one who quietly handles the rest when they do not call at all. But who do you depend on? If that question lands harder than you expected, you are not alone. …

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Most Oklahomans Don’t Know They Qualify for Free or Low-Cost Counseling

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Articles, Counseling, Mental Health

Introduction Most people who put off therapy are not doing it because they do not want help. They are doing it because they have already decided, often without checking, that they cannot afford it. That assumption is one of the most common and most costly barriers to mental health care in Oklahoma. According to a …

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The Quiet Loneliness That Hides Behind a Full Calendar and a Functioning Life

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Articles, Counseling, Individual Counseling, Therapy

Introduction You answer texts. You go to work. You show up to family dinners and office gatherings and weekend plans. And somehow, in the middle of all of it, you feel completely alone. Not physically alone. Surrounded, even. But disconnected in a way that is hard to explain and harder to admit, because from the …

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The Real Reason You Haven’t Started Therapy Yet (And How to Fix It)

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Articles, Counseling, Individual Counseling, Mental Health

Introduction May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and this year’s theme is clear: Turn awareness into action. Millions of people know they need support. They have known for a while. The stress, the anxiety, the sadness that will not lift, the exhaustion of carrying something they cannot quite name has been there for months, sometimes …

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