Madeline Garrett - Platt Professional Counseling

12/07/2023

Ever notice what happens when you slow down?

04/16/2023

We are excited to announce that, due to our remarkable growth over the last year, we are expanding!

We were able to acquire the adjacent office suite at 10221 W. Lincoln Highway and connected the two offices together.

Our new main entrance will be at 10221 W. Lincoln Highway in Frankfort beginning Monday, April 17, 2023.

So, you can find us in the same location just enter one door west.

Our team looks forward to serving you.

04/14/2022

How can you equip yourself to embrace the growing pains?

04/02/2022

02/21/2022

We’re excited to announce that we have moved to a new, larger location to serve you better. Our new address is👇
10217 W. Lincoln Highway
Frankfort, IL 60423

02/12/2021

💘Valentine's Day💘 doesn't always go well for all couples. It's meant to be an opportunity to celebrate love but can easily be filled with overwhelming amounts of expectation and disappointment. Here are 3 resources to help your relationship have a great Valentine's Day:
📱 The Gottman Discussion Card Deck App - https://www.gottman.com/couples/apps/
📝 Les and Leslie Parrot's Valentine's Day Checklist - https://www.symbis.com/blog/5-valentines-day-must-dos-for-your-spouse/
💝 Meaningful Gift Guide - https://www.livescience.com/52989-tips-making-gifts-meaningful-psychology.html

02/09/2021

In honor of we want to acknowledge some of the outstanding contributions African Americans have made in the field of mental health. Stay tuned for more contributors to come.

Dr. Inez Beverly Prosser helped pave the way for desegregation with her dissertation on “The Non-Academic Development of Negro Children in Mixed and Segregated Schools.” It evaluated the effects of racial inequality and racism on the development of Black children’s identity and mental health.

Learn about other outstanding contributors here: https://www.mhanational.org/black-pioneers-mental-health

01/03/2021

🤔Think your 2021 resolutions could endure a year like this last one?

✅Check out our latest blog post to rethink the way you make resolutions and maybe even make them pandemic proof ...
http://plattpc.com/index.php/2020/12/28/5-ways-to-rethink-new-years-resolutions/

12/13/2020

“Self-Care Is Often A Very Unbeautiful Thing.”

“It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.

It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout or tell a toxic friend you don’t want to see them anymore or get a second job so you can have a savings account or figure out a way to accept yourself so that you’re not constantly exhausted from trying to be everything, all the time and then needing to take deliberate, mandated breaks from living to do basic things like drop some oil into a bath and read Marie Claire and turn your phone off for the day.

A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure.

True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.

And that often takes doing the thing you least want to do.

It often means looking your failures and disappointments square in the eye and re-strategizing. It is not satiating your immediate desires. It is letting go. It is choosing new. It is disappointing some people. It is making sacrifices for others. It is living a way that other people won’t, so maybe you can live in a way that other people can’t.

It is letting yourself be normal. Regular. Unexceptional. It is sometimes having a dirty kitchen and deciding your ultimate goal in life isn’t going to be having abs and keeping up with your fake friends. It is deciding how much of your anxiety comes from not actualizing your latent potential, and how much comes from the way you were being trained to think before you even knew what was happening.

If you find yourself having to regularly indulge in consumer self-care, it’s because you are disconnected from actual self-care, which has very little to do with “treating yourself” and a whole lot do with parenting yourself and making choices for your long-term wellness.

It is no longer using your hectic and unreasonable life as justification for self-sabotage in the form of liquor and procrastination. It is learning how to stop trying to “fix yourself” and start trying to take care of yourself… and maybe finding that taking care lovingly attends to a lot of the problems you were trying to fix in the first place.

It means being the hero of your life, not the victim. It means rewiring what you have until your everyday life isn’t something you need therapy to recover from. It is no longer choosing a life that looks good over a life that feels good. It is giving the hell up on some goals so you can care about others. It is being honest even if that means you aren’t universally liked. It is meeting your own needs so you aren’t anxious and dependent on other people.

It is becoming the person you know you want and are meant to be. Someone who knows that salt baths and chocolate cake are ways to enjoy life – not escape from it.”

~Brianna Wiest

11/26/2020

Wishing you and your family a wonderful day!