by Jacqueline Avalos | Aug 24, 2018 | Counseling
It is difficult to find a thoroughly accurate treatment for trauma due to the overwhelming factors. The brain and the body are effected; and because of that, the internal belief system of the self. This is among other areas of functioning like having difficulty with...
by Jacqueline Avalos | Nov 28, 2017 | Counseling
Ever feel like you’re on this journey alone? I’ve had numerous clients tell me how their previous counselors were not very helpful; how they felt judged or humiliated, or even taken advantage of. You should never feel alone when in therapy. Your therapist...
by Jacqueline Avalos | Nov 28, 2017 | Mental Health
When we have negative symptoms we feel crazy because we can’t be the us we want to be. Problem is, we need to find out exactly what’s wrong. We all have some symptoms of diagnoses in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5). The...
by Jacqueline Avalos | Nov 28, 2017 | PTSD
We hear about it all the time. You know your neighbor’s son who joined the military and came back a different person? Or the car accident you had last year and now you can’t hear a car horn without freaking out? Or the more common one where we don’t...
by Jacqueline Avalos | Nov 20, 2017 | Mental Health
Every once and a while we all struggle with your same old looking at the clock and counting how many hours you have left until the alarm goes off. Like some, you may even over use the snooze, myself included. However, suffering from insomnia is not as fun as knowing...