Development tools for a better you
The end of a marriage can be one of the most stressful events a person experiences in life. Even for the partner who chooses to leave, divorce is likely to bring up many painful and difficult emotions. Grief, guilt, anger, confusion, fear, shame, and anxiety may all come into play. If children are involved the […]
Your child or adolescent may participate in play therapy as a part of therapy at Life Skills Resource Group. Play therapy might involve building, books, arts and crafts, puppets, figurines, board games, or pretend games like house, restaurant, doctor, or dress-up. Play therapy might look a lot like just playing, so it is reasonable to […]
Hello, my name is Jessica Carmean, and I’m extremely excited to be joining Life Skills Resource Group as a Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern. I want to thank Amy, Cindy, and Krista for making me feel so welcome. I am honored to work alongside amazing, compassionate professionals. I’ve always had a calling to enter the […]
Our Orlando child counselors Amy Smith and Jessica Carmean both use sandtray therapy in their work with children, adolescents, and adults. While sandtray therapy may look to you like just playing in the sand, sandtray therapy is much more than that. We wanted to share a little bit more about sandtray therapy, and also what […]
If someone handed me a piece of paper and told me to write my “dream job” I would have written that I would love to work as a Mental Health Therapist in private practice in Southwest Orlando. I completed my Master’s program in counseling last fall and was uncertain where I would practice. I had […]
Last week I went to a class on mindfulness meditation. You might remember that learning how to meditate is something I’ve been interested in for awhile. You might also remember that learning how to meditate terrified me, because I was afraid of doing it wrong. Somehow, for me, meditation feels almost magical or mystical. And […]
Every so often I answer the phone here at Life Skills Resource Group Orlando to encounter someone who has been looking for help for awhile and just can’t seem to find the right resource. I can hear the confusion and desperation in their voices: their tone says “Please, won’t someone care enough to help me figure this out?” or “Please, […]
Absorbed Anxiety. Did you know this exists? Well, it does. Think about when you go to the airport. If you are anything like me, you walk in and are relaxed and excited about your trip. Everything seems normal, then, all of a sudden, worry you will be late or miss your plane consumes you even though […]
Every once in awhile it seems there’s something (a quote, a photo, an article, something a friend says…) that strikes you just right and sticks with you. Today I’d like to write about one of those things. Every week I hang a quote of the week in our waiting area. A few months ago I found […]
Here on Valentine’s Day, where the focus is so frequently on couples and romantic love, those of you who are single, in a long-distance relationship, far from friends, far from family, or otherwise alone might feel lonely. Sometimes people even feel lonely when they’re with their spouse, romantic partner, family, friends, or even in a […]
