Amy Avery Counseling Solutions

07/14/2025

When we finally learn that life isn't always a win or lose proposition...we can find a place of peace in just about any situation. Not necessarily happiness, but definitely peace.

Life is in the learning. Even when we don’t win, we always learn something. We are just that much smarter, more full of wisdom and understanding, clearer on what to avoid or expect or prepare for in the future. WE ARE ALWAYS LEARNING….and sometimes NOT winning teaches us the most valuable and important lessons of all.

Life is like that….life really is on your side, friend.

So next time things don’t turn out the way you had hoped, chalk it up to ANOTHER great lesson that has been learned…adding to your wisdom, strength, courage and soul-muscles...if you choose it.

Hang in there. Sometimes winning is not winning, and losing is not losing.

06/28/2025

We all need more words of encouragement and fewer words of judgment.
We all need more hugs and fewer dirty looks.
We all need more congratulations and fewer guilt trips.
We all need more random acts of kindness and less time spent gossiping.
We all need to be loved more without conditions or expectations.....we all do.

06/11/2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/bridget-kohls-mentor-oh/1452698

Amy Avery Counseling Solutions would like to welcome Bridget Kohls to our practice!!! She's a sweet gal, with a great personality that has lots of room in her schedule to fill!!! Check out her Psychology Today profile for more info!!!!

Bridget Kohls, Counselor, Mentor, OH, 44060, (440) 624-6319, My specialty interests include anxiety, OCD, mood disorders, ADHD, depression, and trauma. Many mental health disorders are rooted in trauma, and I have a strong, trauma-informed approach that allows clients to have a safe place to process...

06/07/2025

Remember your TRUE worth

06/04/2025

Pretty good advice, eh? What do you think? Can you embrace everything? Knowing that feeling isn't final??

06/01/2025

As we head into this week, remember that vulnerability with the people who have earned the right to hear our story is key.....these people are our true family....our true friends. Some may be professionals, some may not, but all of them are the best for a healthy YOU.

Be brave.

05/30/2025

Think about where you are now....all that you have learned and who you have become and where you are headed...due largely in part to some things NOT happening that you were sure that wanted to happen.

It's amazing to look back at some things that we knew for absolute sure that we wanted...things that we grieved over because they never happened. It is amazing to think about how blessed we were that those things never happened, or that we never 'got' the thing that we thought for sure we wanted.

Think back...find those things...and think about what happened INSTEAD. Even if those thoughts are painful, and you are still wishing....be patient. You are in the middle point of here to there. If things haven't worked out...they aren't done working out yet. You will soon see, beautiful friend...if you have not already, that everything somehow just works out. It always has, and it always will. Trust this.

Please be at peace.
Please trust your journey.
You have not been forgotten.

05/29/2025

Happy Thursday!!!! Just an announcement: we now have daytime and evening appointments available!!!! Just message Dr. Amy at amy@a2counseling.com to secure a spot!!!!

Be kind and brave today!!!!!

05/28/2025

Dear Not-Keeping-Up Soul,

No matter what it looks like on the outside, nobody has everything together all the time, and nobody really knows what they’re doing all the time.

When you look at somebody else’s life (especially through the internet, but in-person, too) remember that all you’ll ever get to see of another person is a snippet... never the whole person. Everyone has big things and small things to work through. Everyone has disappointments and frustrations. Nobody is immune from the hardness of life.

Be careful that you don’t fall into the trap of believing that someone has it easy in life, because the truth is we just never know what’s going on in a heart or a soul or a mind.

So when you see somebody who looks like they have all the things you want remember that they have lots of things you don’t want, too. When you see somebody who seems to have it all together, remember that they actually don't and extend some grace. And when you see a person who doesn’t seem to have anything together, give them some grace, too.

And when you look at the human in the mirror and wonder why that person doesn’t have everything together all the time, give some grace, too. That human is so very loved.

Have a fantastic day!!!

05/25/2025

Welcome to Amy Avery Counseling Solutions!!!!

No one can know the struggles you are working hard to get through every day. It is so hard to be a human being.

Just for today . . . please make the choice, dear friend, to take really good care of you. Just for today, remember all that you’ve already conquered, and that you are strong enough to get through this too. Just for today, think once again of all the beauty that surrounds you and all that there is to be thankful for. Just for today, cut yourself some slack and give yourself a break . . . you are doing so much better than you think you are doing.