Everybody on the planet deals with anxiety and depression at some point. It’s an inevitable part of the human condition and a normal part of existence. But if you’re anxiety is making for insomnia, lack of focus, or even full-blown, crippling panic attacks that interfere with your relationships, your work, and other aspects of your daily life, then it’s time to get help. If your depression is making it hard to get out of bed in the morning, stealing your interest and pleasure in doing things, then it’s time to get help. It’s can be helpful to share our feelings with a minister, friend, or family member, but sometimes it’s necessary to call on the help of a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who has extensive education and specialized skills developed through many years of experience in helping many others achieve victory in the very same battle you are fighting now. How about you? Have you been feeling like you need help from a professional? If so, Reflections Counseling is here for you. Call us now at 941-301-8420 and start seeing life in a new light!

Marriage Counseling & Coaching

EVERY COUPLE needs encouragement sometimes. How about you? Are you longing for more passion, intimacy, and fun in your marriage? Need help in communication and resolving conflict with your spouse?

For over 20 years we have helped literally thousands of couples to find their happily ever after, and we would love to help YOU TOO! We offer professional marriage counseling and coaching from experienced Licensed Mental Health Counselors and Certified Coaches with both virtual and in-office availability.

Call 941-301-8420 and start seeing your relationship in a new light today!

Grief Counseling

Good grief! You’re probably asking, “Really?? How can grief be good?”

Well, it can be. While going through grief is not necessarily good, the process of growing through grief is, as I can personally attest to and have seen in coaching and counseling dozens of clients over the years. Sadly, I was introduced to grief after a major loss as a teenager- the sudden and untimely death of my first love- and a pattern of losses in the next ten years following forced me to see grief up close. A good friend, four grandparents, a father, an ex-husband, a mother and a brother in law…although those were just the personal “people” losses.

Losses can certainly take on different forms. For example, I never considered the multiple times we moved in my childhood, due to my father’s military status, as losses and never fully grieved the moves and the lost friendships that occurred. Shattered dreams or unrealized ideals are losses. Prodigal children are losses. Geographic change and retirements are losses, though we don’t recognize them as such. No doubt every one of us has touched on one if not many of these.

So how do we grieve? How do you grieve? Do you wear your pain on your sleeve? Do you hide it while dying inside? Do you self-medicate it to try and numb it? Do you rely on your faith? Or have you lost all faith due to the loss? Can you possibly see yourself on the other side of it, or not even see past today?

Suffering a loss and experiencing grief in a healthy way is excruciating yet very much a normal part of the process. There is no escaping it. As a survivor of multiple, painful losses, I can promise you that it’s possible to grow and learn and perhaps even pay it forward one day to someone who is going through the same type of loss that you have. It is hard to “get out of the casket” (forgive the morbid reference), but once you do and begin to take the next steps, relief and lessons and freedom are all awaiting you. And all of those are part of growing through grief. The good grief stuff.

While support from family, friends, and pastoral staff is essential, sometimes it’s helpful to get professional grief counseling from an experienced Licensed Mental Health Counselors. We are here for you with both virtual and in-office availability. 

Call 941-301-8420 and get the support you need today!