Understanding The Difference Between Trauma and PTSD
First and foremost, not everyone who experiences trauma has PTSD. PTSD is a response to a traumatic situation that was experienced or witnessed, but it’s not something everyone develops. In fact, two people can have the same experience—witnessing a shooting, for example—but walk away with different feelings and impacts on their lives. It doesn’t mean it was “more traumatic” for one person. No one’s response is right or wrong. Our reactions are about how our body and mind process what happened.
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Understanding Secondary Trauma and How To Navigate It
Do you find yourself distracted thinking about tragic events? When this happens, you may be hard on yourself or confused. You may be wondering why you’re having such a strong reaction when you don’t personally know the people or aren’t directly involved in the situations. There is a name for this response: secondary trauma
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Grief Isn’t Linear: Why the Five Stages Don’t Happen in Order
The truth is that the five stages of grief are not a straight line. They are a loop. A spiral. Sometimes a tidal wave. And if you’re in the middle of it right now, you already know that you can feel acceptance at breakfast and be right back to anger by dinner.
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Ships Passing in the Night: How Couples Therapy Can Help You Get Back on Track
Does it ever feel that you and your partner just keep missing each other or barely have time for each other? When this happens, do you often leave more hurt and rejected than loved? This feeling is more common in couples than you think. Being in a relationship can be just as beautiful as it is complex. Here are some things to contemplate when you feel that your relationship with your partner will just never get out of the difficult season.
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Meet and Greet: Jasmine Jordan joins Perspective Psychology
“I’m very strength-based and empathetic. I try to understand the person and put myself in their shoes—what they’re going through, why they’re going through it—and I want them to know they have a partner going through it with them.
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Anxiety Therapy During Times of Rapid Cultural Change
Cultural change has always been part of human history—but the speed of change today can feel uniquely destabilizing. Social norms, language, expectations, and values can shift in what feels like a matter of months. For many people, especially those who are thoughtful, empathetic, and socially engaged, this can create a kind of emotional whiplash: a disorienting mix of confusion, grief, anger, and anxiety that’s hard to name, let alone manage.
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Why It’s Okay When New Year’s Resolutions Fall Apart
A missed workout turns into a skipped week. A stressful workday derails a healthy meal or new routine. Motivation fades faster than expected. By mid-January—or sometimes sooner—many people feel like they’ve “failed.” What often follows isn’t neutrality, but self-criticism, anxiety, or a low-grade sense of shame that can linger far longer than the resolution itself.
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How to Support a Loved One Who is Grieving
It’s one thing to lose a loved one directly; it’s another to watch our closest people experience grief right in front of us. As we know, grief comes in many shapes, sizes, and colors.
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Maintaining Healthy Connections: A Step-by-Step Guide to Relationship Check-Ins
In today’s fast-paced environment, it is easy to find yourself getting caught up in the daily grind. In the midst of everything, it is quite common for our personal relationships to take a backseat. With various personal commitments, work pressures, and busy schedules, we may find ourselves neglecting what is most important to us (or those who are most important).
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Exploring Your Gender Identity - Therapy Can Help You
Taking time to reflect on your gender identity doesn’t guarantee you’ll end up identifying as someone different. You could feel the same way before and after reflecting, only now you know why. Now, you feel more secure in yourself and probably have more understanding for others who identify differently.
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What to Expect From Grief Counseling and How It Helps
Knowing how to move forward in life while you are processing a loss and feel stuck in the past can seem like an impossible challenge. You may remember what joy felt like, but ever since the loss, it hasn't felt like an option.
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Times of Transition: Is that Holiday Music I Hear?
Change and transition can cause subconscious anxiety or stress, which might come out in ways that look like a short-temper, irritability, a lower/darker mood, having a harder time communicating clearly with loved ones, or feeling more tired than usual.
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How to Stay True to Yourself in the Chat GPT Era
In a world where AI seems to be taking over, it’s that much more important for us to continue practicing using our brains, being creative, and reminding ourselves that we have the capability to be diverse, unique, and come up with new ideas despite having technology to lean on.
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How To Survive Uncertain Economic Times
If you are reading this, it’s likely that you or someone you know is worried about their job security—or job prospects—and may have even been laid off.
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Five Tips to Help Reduce Anxiety
Heart racing, palms sweating? Chaotic butterflies or an anchor of dread in the pit of your stomach? Feeling irritated or annoyed by everything? Sounds like you might be experiencing a response to stress, something we call anxiety. If this sounds familiar, keep reading for a quick-and-easy Anxiety 101.
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Consider Self-Compassion this Spring
Self-compassion can be a broad term meaning to use patience with yourself, or to practice forgiveness towards yourself when things don’t go the way you had hoped. It can include finding acceptance in not being a perfect human with perfect traits, or choosing to rest when you need, especially when you’re not feeling your best.
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3 Tips for Beating the Winter Blues
Winter months can prove challenging for even the most positive of individuals. Shorter days, longer nights, less time outdoors, cold dreary weather—all run the risk of making us feel sluggish and isolated. When that feeling creeps in, we can become tired, sad, irritable, emotional, and/or lack motivation.
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Perspective Psychology’s Sabina Skupien shares how her personal journey inspired career in therapy
Sabina Skupien is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor for Perspective Psychology. She works with clients of all ages and specializes in anxiety, depression, trauma and transitions, among other issues.
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Keeping A Work-Life Balance when your Work Space Is Your Personal Space
It’s important to set boundaries. Not just your start and stop times for work, but also where you work in your home and how much time you spend multi-tasking. Although it can be great to do laundry between calls, it can also make it easier to work at your desk after dinner.
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Two Keys To A Healthy Relationship
Communication and trust often go hand in hand, and they’re the biggest factors that lead to a healthy relationship. Before you can effectively communicate with and trust someone, however, you must feel comfortable with who you are as a person.
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