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Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Articles, Counseling, Family Counseling, Mental Health, Relationships
Introduction Your child used to run back for one more hug before walking into the building. This year, they barely looked back. Somewhere in the space between last August and this one, something shifted, and you felt it, even if nobody else around you seemed to notice. If a wave of loss caught you off …
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Introduction You saw the “first day of school” countdown posts. You watched other parents talk about how much they will miss their kids this summer. And somewhere underneath your own relief that school is starting again, a quieter feeling crept in: guilt. If part of you is genuinely looking forward to school starting, and another …
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Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Articles, Children and Adolescent Counseling, teen
Introduction The backpack is by the door. The school supply list is checked off. But if you are like most parents in Oklahoma right now, the thing weighing on you most is not on any list at all. It is the quiet worry about how your child is really going to handle the first day, …
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Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Articles, Counseling, Mental Health, Online Therapy
Introduction Living in a small town does not mean you have fewer options for quality mental health care. If the nearest counselor’s office is an hour away, or if the idea of running into your therapist at the grocery store makes you hesitate to even start, you are dealing with a real barrier, not an …
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Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Articles, Counseling, Individual Counseling
Introduction You have decided to start therapy, or maybe you have been in therapy before and it did not quite click. Either way, you are now facing a search bar full of names, credentials, and specialties, and no clear way to know who is actually right for you. Finding the right therapist is about more …
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