How to Help your Highly Sensitive Teen to Manage Stress

How To Help Your Highly Sensitive Teen To Manage Stress Teenage years could be really tough for teens themselves and parents. If your child is a highly sensitive person, things could be more challenging. How do you know you have a highly sensitive teen though?  Signs of a Highly Sensitive Teen Highly sensitive teenagers tend to … Read more

Your Common Questions about Online Therapy Answered!

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Your Common Questions About Online Therapy Answered The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us as a society to reprogram how the world normally operates. When it comes to therapy, practitioners had to find ways to connect with patients safely. Online therapy has been the method most therapists have turned to during this time. With its sudden … Read more

Tips to Find Motivation to Cope with Depression

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Strategies To Find Motivation To Cope With Depression As many as 16 million people in the United States are estimated to struggle from depression. When self isolation is a norm during the COVID pandemic, many people may face higher risks of depression. How to cope with depression becomes a question many people face.  What does … Read more

How to Manage Stress During COVID-19

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How To Manage Stress During COVID Pandemic It is a difficult time for all of us during this Pandemic. Social distancing, working from home, distance learning, staying at home, and food delivery are the new normal. Our lives have been turned upside down. When we face uncertainty, it is very understandable to feel stressed and … Read more

5 Ways to Improve your Mental Health in 2021

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5 Ways to Improve Your Mental Health in 2021 A couple of weeks into 2021, how did your new year’s resolutions go? When most of the gyms are not open, many of us continue to work from home, and many others are still struggling, how do you plan to achieve your goals and feel a … Read more

Out of Touch with Emotions? You may Need a Good Cry

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Out of Touch with Your Emotions? You may Need a Good Cry How many times have you heard people saying, “just be happy”, “always smile”? Have you tried to bottle up feelings? Suppressing emotions with too much wine or food? When was the last time you had a good cry? Or did you simply tell … Read more

How to Solve Sleep Problems Naturally

How To Solve Sleep Problems Naturally Have you ever been lying in bed at night and asking yourself: why I’m tired, but I can’t sleep? Often, the harder you struggle to sleep, the more awake you are. After many sleepless nights, you begin to wonder with a fuzzy mind: Can insomnia kill you? You even … Read more

Misconceptions And Facts About Therapy

Misconceptions and Facts about Therapy In our clinical practice at Mind Connections, we receive many questions from people who are interested in psychotherapy. Sometimes mental health stigma continues to remain a topic that could make seeking psychological help a taboo or an unspoken subject. While the root of the stigma may stem from the history … Read more

Dealing With Control Issues

Dealing with Control Issues During this pandemic, the time of uncertainty, stress is accumulating so quickly that sometimes you get anxiety or even panic. To cope with the current stressors, it is important to reflect on how you spend your attention every day. If anything is certain in life, it is the fact that things will happen … Read more