Integrative Counsel

12/18/2025

The start of a new year invites reflection, release, and reimagining. You don’t need to be an artist (or have everything figured out) to use creativity as a tool for clarity. These simple art therapy prompts are designed to help you externalize your inner world, process what you’re carrying, and gently explore what you want to call in for 2026. Move through them intuitively, taking breaks when needed, and let the process matter more than the final result.

Kicking Off 2026 With DIY Art Therapy The start of a new year invites reflection, release, and reimagining. You don’t need to be an artist (or have everything figured out) to use creativity as a tool for clarity. These simple art therapy prompts are designed to help you externalize your inner worl...

12/11/2025

Trauma bonds can feel confusing, powerful, and painfully difficult to name—especially when the relationship swings between connection, distance, and emotional harm. This guide will help you understand the signs, ask the right questions, and explore how trauma-informed therapy—whether individual or couples counseling—can support you in breaking the cycle.

Trauma bonds can feel confusing, powerful, and painfully difficult to name—especially when the relationship swings between connection, distance, and emotional harm. This guide will help you understand the signs, ask the right questions, and explore how trauma-informed therapy—whether individual ...

12/11/2025

Somatic therapy can help you begin to understand your own bodies wisdom.

When you learn to feel the feelings in your body without fear and anxiety, you are able to process your emotions easier.

When you have a feeling and attach anxiety to it, that feeling goes unprocessed and gets stuck within the body.

Being able to process your emotions in a healthy way starts with feeling your feelings without attaching a story or a narrative to it, and letting it move through you.

Typically, it takes about 90 seconds for an emotion to do its thing.

If you let it do it’s thing without shaming it, the emotion gets processed, you honor it, and then you move forward.

12/04/2025

When we live with untreated anxiety, it can feel like there is danger and disaster around every corner. Our bodies are ill-equipped to handle unmanaged anxiety for long periods of time, and on a long enough timeframe, anxiety can start to feel like a physical illness rather than a mental one. Anxiety disorders can raise your heart rate, cloud your thinking, and even deepen your physical pain.

When we work with the right therapist, we can learn how to treat each of these symptoms and fight chronic anxiety the same way our body fights off a nasty cold.

When we live with untreated anxiety, it can feel like there is danger and disaster around every corner. Our bodies are ill-equipped to handle unmanaged anxiety for long periods of time, and on a long enough timeframe, anxiety can start to feel like a physical illness rather than a mental one. Anxiet...

12/03/2025

Happy full moon in Gemini!

It’s time for you to release the things that keep you from acknowledging your prosperity and participating in your creative endeavors.

The more you listen to your sparks and creative passions, the more abundant you will be.

What stories do you tell yourself about your own creative expression? What do you need to release in order to have the prosperity and abundance you desire?

If you’re wanting to harness the power of the full moon, check out our moon bundle. It includes a new moon meditation, a full moon meditation, creative directives, and more!

Check it out at the link in bio. :)

11/21/2025

Financial stress can creep into your life quietly, shaping your mood, your energy, and even your sense of self without you realizing it’s happening. During the holidays—when spending expectations rise and emotional pressures run high—it’s especially easy to overlook the toll money worries take on your mental health. Before you can address what you’re feeling, it helps to understand how financial strain actually shows up in your day-to-day life. So what are the symptoms of financial stress, and how do you know when it’s affecting more than just your wallet?

Financial stress can creep into your life quietly, shaping your mood, your energy, and even your sense of self without you realizing it’s happening. During the holidays—when spending expectations rise and emotional pressures run high—it’s especially easy to overlook the toll money worries ta...

11/13/2025

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is designed for people who feel stuck in the emotional aftermath of difficult experiences—whether those experiences stem from a single traumatic event or years of accumulated stress and pain. It has offered transformative relief for patients with PTSD, depression, and anxiety.

You don’t have to have lived through something “big enough” to qualify as trauma for EMDR to help. This therapy is for anyone whose nervous system still reacts as if the past is happening right now—through anxiety, flashbacks, self-doubt, or emotional numbing. EMDR can help you leave the painful past behind and rediscover the beautiful present.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is designed for people who feel stuck in the emotional aftermath of difficult experiences—whether those experiences stem from a single traumatic event or years of accumulated stress and pain. It has offered transformative relief for pati...

11/06/2025

Sadness is something we all cope with, but when that sadness is a symptom of full-blown depression, it’s not something we can always handle on our own. Often we turn to work, substances, or the problems of others to find escape from our own sense of melancholy and worthlessness. Instead of turning towards others, our depression often causes us to isolate, which further intensifies our pain. How do we create more room for our sadness to exist without letting it consume us?

Sadness is something we all cope with, but when that sadness is a symptom of full-blown depression, it’s not something we can always handle on our own. Often we turn to work, substances, or the problems of others to find escape from our own sense of melancholy and worthlessness. Instead of turning...

10/30/2025

When OCD feels especially convincing, it can be hard to tell where the disorder ends and you begin. The thoughts sound so real, so urgent, that even your trustiest methods of coping might start to waver. This isn’t a failure on your part, it’s just what it feels like to have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

You are not adrift without a paddle in the sea of worry. You have options. There are proven coping skills that can really help anyone struggling with obsessive thinking, intrusive behaviors, and the anguish that comes along with them. If we learn how to cope, we’ll know what to reach for no matter how dark things may appear.

When OCD feels especially convincing, it can be hard to tell where the disorder ends and you begin. The thoughts sound so real, so urgent, that even your trustiest methods of coping might start to waver. This isn’t a failure on your part, it’s just what it feels like to have Obsessive Compulsive...

10/24/2025

No family is perfect. There will be times in our life where we come into conflict with our families, whether that’s a personal disagreement between family members or a difference in philosophy from one generation to the next. Family conflict is one of the most stressful conflicts we can experience because there is no complete severing of the family tie; no matter how bad things get, you are still brothers, sisters, parents, or children to one another, even if you’re no longer talking.

It is that unspoken connection to our families that we’ll be drawing upon today. You come from a long line of individuals (some kind, and others not) who built and grew the culture of your family into what it is today. Connecting with your ancestors is a safe way to access that sense of belonging and family regardless of what’s going on with your family of origin. Although we’ve never had the opportunity to meet them, our ancestors are responsible for who we are and they are more like us than we think.

No family is perfect. There will be times in our life where we come into conflict with our families, whether that’s a personal disagreement between family members or a difference in philosophy from one generation to the next. Family conflict is one of the most stressful conflicts we can experience...

10/17/2025

Finding the right therapist can feel like a relief until you start looking at the price tag. For many Floridians, the cost of therapy can be a major barrier to getting the help they need. That’s where Integrative Counsel comes into the picture.

Whether you’re managing anxiety, depression, relationship issues, or just trying to navigate life’s challenges, it’s our mission to help people like you access quality mental health care all across St. Petersburg, FL.

Whether that’s finding a provider who accepts your insurance, working with an enthusiastic student therapist who’s right for your budget, or just finally getting a handle on your financial anxiety, Integrative Counsel can help you get the help you need.

Finding the right therapist can feel like a relief until you start looking at the price tag. For many Floridians, the cost of therapy can be a major barrier to getting the help they need. That’s where Integrative Counsel comes into the picture.  Whether you’re managing anxiety, depression, rela...

10/14/2025

Join me this Thursday from 8-9:30 at the office!

If you’re in a season of change, either grieving what’s ended, unsure what’s next, or simply feeling caught between who you are now and who you want to grow to be, this group is a safe space for you to be.

A Journey Through Transitions is a processing group that helps you slow down, reconnect with your creativity, and learn to listen to the wisdom of your body and intuition. Through creative expression, mindfulness practices, and ritual, you’ll learn how to release old identities, trust the in-between, and begin envisioning what comes next for you with clarity and confidence. There is no need to have it all figured out, but this is a space for you to begin to plant the seeds to grow a future that is aligned with your most authentic self.

In this gorup, you will be given the opportunity to rediscover your strength and create a solid foundation for yourself as you cross the threshold into a new chapter of your life.

To join, fill out the sign up from at the link in bio.