What to Expect at Your First Therapy Session

If you’ve been thinking about starting therapy but haven’t made the call yet, there’s a good chance one thing is holding you back: you don’t know what’s actually going to happen. That uncertainty is one of the most common reasons people put it off. So let’s just walk through it. Before You Even Arrive At Campbell Counseling, your intake paperwork is completed online before your first…

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What Couples Therapy Actually Looks Like (And Why It’s Not What You Expect)

If you’ve been thinking about couples therapy but haven’t made the call yet, there’s a good chance one of these thoughts has crossed your mind: “I don’t want to sit there and talk about my feelings for an hour.” “I’m not going to dig through my childhood. That’s not the problem.” “What if the therapist takes sides?” “What if it doesn’t actually help?” Those are fair…

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A Social Skills Group for High School Girls (And Why the Last Session Is the Best One)

High school is hard. Not in the way adults sometimes minimize “oh, those were the best years,” but genuinely, socially, exhaustingly hard. For a lot of teenage girls, the difficulty isn’t just the homework or the college pressure. It’s the friendships that feel complicated and confusing. It’s not knowing how to say what you mean without it coming out wrong. It’s feeling anxious in group settings,…

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