When to Seek Counseling?
It is difficult to know when to seek counseling and professional support. Making the decision to seek help for yourself or someone you love is always hard. There is always a tendency to second guess your intuition or rationalize that counseling is not needed. To help make this decision, review this list below. If you or someone you love are experiencing any of these items, you may find it useful to call Carol at Learning Dynamics to receive professional support.
For General Counseling
- Extreme Fatigue
- Difficulty in sleeping-too little or too much
- Loss of appetite or eating too much
- Uncontrollable tears
- Difficulty getting along with others
- Difficulty in concentrating
- Unable to carry on with typical daily activities
- Unable to carry on with typical daily activities
- Feeling like no one understands or is there for you/them
For Learning Strategies & Behavioral and Emotional Strategies
Do you or someone you care about demonstrate these behaviors?
- Becomes anxious about work or tests
- Spends hours on learning new tasks or information
- Submits incomplete projects & homework
- Misplaces things
- Demonstrates poor reading comprehension
- Fatigues easily when studying
- Can’t sit still
- Becomes distracted easily
- Day dreams excessively
- Becomes angry an frustrated
- Cries easily
- Lies when misses dates and assignments
- Forgets important things
For Grief
It is always difficult when we lose someone or something we love. Making the decision to receive help and support during this time is often hard. Review this list of normal responses to grief. If any of the items on the list are negatively impacting your life, you may find it useful to call Carol at Learning Dynamics.
- Extreme fatigue
- Difficulty in sleeping
- Loss of appetite
- Uncontrollable tears
- Feelings of anger and rage
- Difficulty getting along with others
- Feeling like no one understands or is there for you
- Difficulty in concentrating
- Day dreams excessively
- Unable to carry on with typical daily activities
Carol works with people and offers grief counseling from a perspective of faith (if desired), love and hope. Many people state after grief counseling with Carol, they feel heard, understood and a sense of peace and resolve with their loss.