Counseling and Wellness Center of Pittsburgh

Counseling and Wellness Center of Pittsburgh Counseling & Wellness Center of Pittsburgh: Monroeville, Wexford, South Hills, Greensburg, Cranberry We also offer Online Counseling Services.

The Counseling and Wellness Center of Pittsburgh is a woman-owned private practice with locations in Pittsburgh, Cranberry, Greensburg, Monroeville, South Hills and Wexford. Our mission is to enhance the health and wellbeing of our clients by offering Individual, Couples, Family, and Group Therapies, as well as Psychiatric Services & Medication Management along with integrative wellness services such as Herbalism, Health Coaching, Meditation, Mindfulness, Nutrition Counseling, Reiki, Reiki Training and Yoga. Get Seen, Get Heard, Get Helped.

11/24/2025

Netflix’s new show The Beast in Me centers on the question: Did Nile murder his wife?

This video isn’t focused on answering that, it’s about how Nile never takes no for an answer.

Constant boundary-testing, subtle coercion, and making others feel responsible for managing the manipulator’s emotions or desires is a major red flag

Someone who won’t respect small boundaries won’t respect big ones either. Recognizing the pattern early is key to protecting your well-being.

Disclaimer: We do not own the rights to these clips. They are shared under Fair Use for educational purposes only, with no copyright infringement intended.

This December in Monroeville, join us for somatic workshops and yoga classes designed to support your mind, body, and sp...
11/21/2025

This December in Monroeville, join us for somatic workshops and yoga classes designed to support your mind, body, and spirit.

✓ FREE Vinyasa Flow Community Class: This class encourages full-body awareness, flexibility, and strength through sequences that link posture to breath. Please bring a non-perishable food item benefitting Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank.

✓ Wellness Vinyasa Flow: Connecting movement with breath, you’ll flow from one pose to the next, becoming a moving meditation. Curated playlists elevate your energy levels.

✓ Internal Family Systems Workshop: Explore your protector parts, while creating space to gently access the more vulnerable parts that hold deeper emotions, unmet needs, or past experiences still influencing your present.

✓ The Highly Sensitive Person Workshop: Learn to work with your sensitivity and reduce overwhelm through gentle somatic exercises.

✓ Wild Within: Wolf Energy Yoga and Somatic Workshop: Step into your primal power and reconnect with the wild, instinctual energy that lives within you.

✓ Divine Feminine Yoga Flow: Reconnect with the powerful, intuitive energy of the divine feminine in this nourishing flow class that honors the qualities of receptivity, creativity, fluidity, and inner wisdom.

Sign up now https://www.vagaro.com/counselingandwellnesscenterofpittsburgh/classes

11/19/2025

Toxic people weaponize your brain chemistry—here’s how to disrupt it.

Our primitive brain doesn’t judge whether an attachment is healthy or toxic, it just responds to the oxytocin it produces.

This powerful bonding hormone is released through touch, eye contact, intimacy, and emotional connection, cementing attachments whether they’re good for us or not.

Narcissists and manipulators are masters at hijacking your body’s reward system, flooding you with oxytocin to keep you hooked.

The good news is that you can hijack your own oxytocin. Start creating new bonds that actually serve you—spend quality time with pets, deepen friendships, connect with a therapist, join communities that uplift you. Hug people who respect you. Laugh with those who see you. The more you diversify your oxytocin sources, the less power any one toxic person has over your nervous system.

11/17/2025

What is it about a cat choosing you that just hits differently?

Cats can teach us so much about consent and boundaries. Sure, they don’t do a great job respecting our boundaries (let's be real, they follow us into the bathroom), but they teach us that if we want their affection, we have to earn it.

They set clear limits, and if we cross them, they walk away. No explanation. No apology. No people-pleasing.

BUT when a cat finally chooses to curl up in your lap—on their terms, in their time—that moment means everything. Because it wasn't forced. It wasn't manipulated. It was freely given.

Free Vinyasa Flow Community Class 🧡 Move with purpose, give with heartJoin us Monday, November 17th at 6 PM for a flowin...
11/12/2025

Free Vinyasa Flow Community Class 🧡 Move with purpose, give with heart

Join us Monday, November 17th at 6 PM for a flowing 60-minute Vinyasa class in Monroeville. We'll link breath to movement, build strength, and calm the mind—all while supporting our community.

Your "ticket" is just one non-perishable food item for the Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank.

Limited spots available—reserve yours now! https://www.vagaro.com/cl/pTJzWmlykt~B~JLomwe5FsZwTgznkM9fKXZtYitjf94=

Honoring Veterans Day and Supporting Veterans with PTSD 🇺🇸Today, we honor those who have served our country, recognizing...
11/12/2025

Honoring Veterans Day and Supporting Veterans with PTSD 🇺🇸

Today, we honor those who have served our country, recognizing the sacrifices and the challenges many veterans face even after returning home.

According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), between 11–20% of veterans experience PTSD each year.

At Counseling and Wellness Center of Pittsburgh, we offer specialized therapies designed to help veterans process trauma and find healing.

❤️ Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Helps you to identify and reframe unhelpful thoughts, exploring how trauma has shaped beliefs about Safety, Trust, Power/Control, Intimacy, and Esteem to foster healing and healthier perspectives.

🤍 Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Uses guided eye movements or sounds while recalling painful memories, helping the brain process and reframe these events in a way that lessens their impact.

💙 Somatic Therapy: Focuses on the mind-body connection to process trauma through awareness of bodily sensations, movement, and physical grounding. Works to release trauma stored in the body, supporting emotional regulation.

If you or someone you know could benefit from PTSD support, our trained and compassionate therapists are here to help. Reach out at 412-856-WELL or click the link in our bio.

This Veterans Day, we thank you for your service and stand ready to support your path to healing. ❤️🤍💙 🇺🇸

Honoring Veterans Day and Supporting Veterans with PTSD 🇺🇸Today, we honor those who have served our country, recognizing...
11/12/2025

Honoring Veterans Day and Supporting Veterans with PTSD 🇺🇸

Today, we honor those who have served our country, recognizing the sacrifices and the challenges many veterans face even after returning home.

According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), between 11–20% of veterans experience PTSD each year.

At Counseling and Wellness Center of Pittsburgh, we offer specialized therapies designed to help veterans process trauma and find healing.

❤️ Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Helps you to identify and reframe unhelpful thoughts, exploring how trauma has shaped beliefs about Safety, Trust, Power/Control, Intimacy, and Esteem to foster healing and healthier perspectives.

🤍 Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Uses guided eye movements or sounds while recalling painful memories, helping the brain process and reframe these events in a way that lessens their impact.

💙 Somatic Therapy: Focuses on the mind-body connection to process trauma through awareness of bodily sensations, movement, and physical grounding. Works to release trauma stored in the body, supporting emotional regulation.

If you or someone you know could benefit from PTSD support, our trained and compassionate therapists are here to help. Reach out at 412-856-WELL or head here: https://counselingwellnesspgh.com/counseling-forms/

This Veterans Day, we thank you for your service and stand ready to support your path to healing. ❤️🤍💙 🇺🇸

11/10/2025

Limerence is often talked about as something toxic or unhealthy, but it is not always a bad thing 💭

At its heart, limerence is the early phase of falling in love. The constant thoughts about someone, the idealization, the fixation that can make us overlook red flags. Research shows that those with attachment trauma are more likely to experience limerence in this intense way.

When limerence becomes all-consuming or one-sided, it can lead to anxiety, obsession, and unhealthy relationship patterns. But in a balanced, secure relationship, it can actually strengthen closeness and emotional intimacy.

The key is learning how to experience limerence in a healthy and grounded way.

11/07/2025

Morgan dating her therapist in Nobody Wants This season 2 - let’s talk about it.

The storyline is played for comedic effect and yes, it’s fiction but in real life, this would be a MASSIVE ethical violation with serious consequences.

Ethics codes ban therapist-client relationships for 2-5 years post-therapy—minimum. And even then it’s highly discouraged.

The power imbalance doesn’t just disappear when therapy ends. The therapist has intimate knowledge of the client’s vulnerabilities and traumas.

We actually see this manipulation play out in the show. Dr. Andy takes something vulnerable Morgan shared in therapy—her childhood disappointment about not getting flowers for a recital—and uses it to get her to move in with him.

The show plays this for laughs, but in reality, this would be career-ending for Dr. Andy and could cause serious psychological harm to Morgan.

And while this is fiction, let’s not normalize this type of relationship.

Disclaimer: We do not own the rights to these clips. They are shared under Fair Use for educational purposes only, with no copyright infringement intended.

11/04/2025

We often hear “mommy issues” used as a joke, but the mother wound is a real psychological experience that impacts how men show up in relationships.

What is it? Unresolved emotional pain from early maternal relationships that shapes attachment patterns and relational behaviors in adulthood.

Common causes:
🔵 Loss through death, divorce, or absence
🔵 If a mom was sick and unable to provide consistent nurturing
🔵 Overly critical or controlling dynamics
🔵 Enmeshment (unclear boundaries)
🔵 Conditional love based on achievement

Common signs:
🔵 Difficulty with trust or intimacy
🔵 Fear of abandonment or engulfment
🔵 Seeking approval or people-pleasing
🔵 Struggles with emotional vulnerability
🔵 Perfectionism or harsh self-criticism

Healing the mother wound means understanding how early experiences shaped your attachment style—so you can create healthier patterns moving forward.

Therapy can help you process these experiences and build secure, fulfilling relationships. 💙

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The Counseling and Wellness Center of Pittsburgh is an integrative mental health practice located in the metro Pittsburgh area, Monroeville, Wexford or North Hills and South Hills of Mcmurray. We offer psychotherapy, marriage counseling, and family therapy. Our wellness services for individuals, couples and children to enhance your well-being organically. Our staff is always ready to talk and our receptionist would be glad to offer you an appointment for a consultation if you think that you could benefit from our services. Please refer to the our website for a greater explanation. http://counselingwellnesspgh.com