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Jennifer B. Baxt, LMFT, LMHC's Articles in Coaching

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  • How do you know if you are depressed?
    If one is aware of what some of the signs of depression are, they can start to ask themselves questions that can help them determine if it might be time to get some help from a therapist. Untreated depression can eventually grow into a serious condition that can greatly affect a person’s life in a very negative way.
  • Can you receive online counseling for depression?
    The availability of online therapy or counseling has been successful in tearing down the barriers that have kept many people from getting the help that they need. The barrier was the discomfort, mixed emotions and inability to physically go down to the therapist’s office and speak with them in person
  • Can anxiety be caused by a chemical imbalance?
    For people who don’t seem to have any clear reason of why they might be suffering from anxiety on a regular basis, it is thought that they could be suffering from a chemical imbalance in the brain.
  • How hard is parenting?
    Before having the first child, many will be unaware of how difficult it can be. For the first couple of years, there is the knowledge that the child might wake up through the night and keep the parent or parents up, but few will think about how difficult it can be as the child grows.
  • Therapy through forums?
    It may come as a surprise for many that there is now therapy available online that is also free. This particular service being offered is relatively new, but is one that is becoming more popular all the time as more and more people log in to talk, get some advice and receive some of the help that they may need.
  • How to parent teenagers?
    Everyone has heard the horror stories of their teenage children becoming pregnant, getting into drugs or becoming too much to handle in the home. Here is the truth about these kinds of problems; none of these have to happen.
  • How to deal with criticism within your family?
    It can easily be forgotten that a family is supposed to work together and provide support to all of its members. It is with that support and caring atmosphere that can help the children to grow up healthy and prepared for life.
  • Can depression cause fatigue?
    Any doctor will say that enough sleep is necessary in order to be energized enough to function properly throughout the day.
  • Are Sleeping Pills the Only Way?
    If there is one thing that many people are guilty of, it is looking for the quick fix instead of trying healthier alternatives first. There are some people who try many alternatives before they turn to conventional medicinal therapy, but more will unfortunately opt for the pills rather than give alternatives a fair chance.
  • Can music improve your mood?
    As depression is studied to gain more understanding about why people become depressed, it has been found that certain types of music may also be an effective treatment method for improving a depressed individual’s mood.
  • Aging male syndrome
    Aging is inevitable and is something that all humans will have to eventually face. Hair will start to turn grey and fall out, wrinkles will start to appear and many will even start to gain some weight that they just can’t seem to get rid o
  • The impact of depression on men over time.
    It is found that many men who have problems with depression and substance abuse later in life, especially alcoholism, have developed the problem from an early age. It is believed that many of these addictions can be developed during later high school years or post-secondary years because of the easy access to the party atmosphere, the peer pressure and the easy access to alcohol and drugs.
  • How financial stress threatens a marriage?
    Money is one of the many reasons that a marriage can break up, especially if times of financial distress has continued over a lengthy period of time. In fact, financial stress appears to be the cause of about 80 percent of all divorces. This goes to show just how stressful financial trouble can be for a couple who are both affected by it.
  • How to deal with grief?
    Losing someone that a person greatly cares about, whether it is a friend or a family member can be extremely stressful. It can even cause a person to fall into a state of depression because the stress is overwhelming.
  • Binge Eating
    Binge eating affects way too many people across North America. It is a way for people to deal with their stress, depression or with low self-esteem. Food can be a real comfort, but when it turns into a binge every couple of days that causes a major gain in weight, it might be time to stop and ask one’s self if this binging habit is becoming a problem.
  • Therapy for social phobia
    It may seem strange, but there are a lot of people out there who are shy of other people and some of these people are so shy of other people that they can’t even make friends. If not corrected, a person can develop an anxiety or an intense fear of socializing with other people.
  • What is Art Therapy
    Art therapy is one of many proven methods used to help people deal with the issues they may have that are making their lives more difficult than they need to be.
  • Cyclothymic depression
    Cyclothymic depression is a depression caused by dramatic mood changes. It is considered to be a form of bipolar II disorder where the patient will at one moment feel highly irritable and then fall into a state of depression.
  • What is Ablutophobia
    What is ablutophobia? With so many different phobias out there, it will come as little surprise that there is a phobia that refers to people who are afraid to bathe, or wash.
  • Are you scared of aging?
    While it is understandable that most people have a natural tendency to feel uncomfortable with their own aging and mortality, there are a few in the crowd who are horrified by the natural process to the point of having a phobia. The phobia where people are terrified of aging is called gerascophobia.
  • Understanding and Recognizing Depression
    One of the most misunderstood things about depression is what causes it. There are those who believe that there must be a reason to be depressed, and this is not the case. It is never that simple, and there doesn’t have to be an apparent reason for depression to occur at all.
  • How to counsel young adults
    You may be surprised to find that everyone, at some point in their lives, will benefit from counseling. This includes young adults. In fact, teens may need counseling more so than many other age groups simply because of all of the pressures put on them during those teen years. You should definitely consider young adult counseling for your teen.
  • Video Counseling
    A video counselor will do everything that an in-person counselor would do – except it is done via video, instead of face-to-face. Video counseling literally takes online counseling a step further, in that you can have an actual therapy session with the use of two way video.
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