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Category Archives: Individual Counseling

Breaking the Cycle of Feeling Invisible: The Hidden Toll on Mental Health

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Counseling, Depression, Individual Counseling

Feeling invisible, unseen, or unheard can happen in the home, the workplace, a classroom, a doctor’s office, social settings, or when supervising a team of subordinates. Middle children, very young children, women, victims of bullying, religious and racial minorities, the obese, the soft-spoken, and men short in statue often experience invisibility, “the inability to be seen …

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Want to Live a Happier Life? Stop Doing These 5 Things

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

It’s great to have long-term goals for self-improvement. But sometimes those long-term goals can feel so, well, long-term. So, don’t just think about where you want to be five or 10 years from now; ask yourself what’s getting in the way of making your life better right at this moment? Sure, there are some things …

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Tools To Address Oklahoma’s Opioid Crisis

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

The Nation’s drug-related overdose and death epidemic are at an all-time high and Oklahoma is no exception. The CDC, and Oklahoma State Department of Health, show drug overdose deaths increased 23 percent in Oklahoma from March 2020 to March 2021, with each remaining month showing a continued increase. “A prevention specialist with the Tulsa Health …

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Gathering For the Holidays With Family During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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

According to the “Experts”, gathering with family and friends during the holiday season is again possible with certain stipulations – none of which, unfortunately, involve personal preferences. We are told how to avoid social, economic, and political issues at social gatherings and around the dinner table, however, a discussion on how to communicate personal vaccination …

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Handling Intolerance of Uncertainty

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Children and Adolescent Counseling, Counseling, Family Counseling, Individual Counseling, Mental Health

Today more than ever, people display an intolerance of uncertainty to political, religious, societal, climatical, and secular views, beliefs, and behaviors. Many in the American Psychological Association believe mass shooters and people who commit suicide suffer from an inability to tolerate not knowing, or accepting the uncertainties tomorrow might bring. Even when viewpoints and philosophies …

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