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10/28/2025

Welcome to our newest therapist, Valerie Wolfinger, MSEd, LPCC-S, LICDC
Valerie is a licensed professional clinical counselor supervisor and a licensed independent chemical dependency counselor. She sees female adolescents, male and female adults and also does couples’ counseling. Her areas of expertise are in Post Partum, Fertility, Depression, Anxiety, Trauma, PTSD, Relationship Challenges, Solution Focused Brief Therapy as well as Substance Abuse.

08/26/2025

Today’s Affirmations

"I can disappoint someone without being a disappointing person."

Life sometimes brings moments when your choices don't align with what others hoped for from you. But causing disappointment doesn't make you disappointing; it makes you human with your own needs, limits, and priorities. You can care about others' feelings without being responsible for managing them.

Try this: If you need to make a choice that might disappoint someone, remind yourself: "I can be considerate of their feelings while still honoring what's right for me. Their disappointment doesn't define my worth."
**Taken from The Daily Wellness

08/25/2025

Rewrite Rules Around Rest

Let's start dismantling some of the beliefs that keep you trapped in the productivity cycle:

“If I rest before finishing, I’m lazy.” → Laziness is avoiding effort when you have energy. If you’re depleted, rest is repair.

“I’ll rest when the list is done.” → To-do lists are designed to regenerate. Making rest conditional means you’ll never rest.

“Productive people need less rest.” → Sustainable performers protect rest because it preserves judgment, memory, and mood.

Three Tiny Steps (start today)

Define “enough” in advance. Pick one finish line for today (e.g., draft sent, 25 minutes of admin). When you hit it, stop.

Unjustified rest. Schedule 15 minutes with no productivity story attached. When guilt shows up, name it (“There you are”) and keep resting.

Close the tab. End work with a 60-second ritual (shut laptop, light stretch, one breath with shoulders dropping). Train your brain that off is safe.

Try tonight (5 minutes): Set a timer and do nothing on purpose. No phone. Notice urges to plan or fix. Let them pass. That’s nervous-system rehab, not indulgence.

Your worth isn’t contingent on output. You’re inherently valuable before you do one more thing. The part of you that creates, loves, and connects needs rest, not as a reward, but as fuel for being human.

Culture may not change overnight, but your relationship with rest can change today. Each time you rest without “earning” it, you’re teaching your nervous system that off is safe. Your list will be there after your nap; your worth won’t budge.

This isn’t permission granted, it’s permission reclaimed.
**From The Daily Wellness e-mail

06/24/2025

06/10/2025

Welcome to our newest intern, Caleb Evans! Caleb is a Counselor Trainee who sees adults and has a background working with the addicted population. Caleb brings a humanistic and existential perspective to his work with clients. His focuses include addiction, anxiety, depression, grief, mood disorders and self-esteem.

06/10/2025

Welcome to one of our newest counselors! Isaac Seymour. Isaac is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor who sees adolescents and adults and couples. Isaac utilizes an educational approach on how to handle issues effectively. His focuses include anxiety, depression, self-esteem, life-transition and marriage counseling.

04/08/2025

"Remember that mountaintops encourage you, but valleys mature you."-Nicky Gumbel

02/12/2025

“No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you can always turn around.”