PTSD affects approximately 3.5 percent of U.S. adults every year. The great news is that with the right treatment and support, PTSD is entirely treatable. You’ll eventually start to feel better. Calm Again Counseling offers PTSD counseling near you in San Francisco. To learn more, call (415) 480-5192.

70% of adults in the U.S. have experienced some type of traumatic event. Know that you are not alone in having experienced trauma. There are many resources and experienced specialists available for you to have treatment.

It is said that one in five American adults is struggling with their mental health. Mental illness is on the rise, and in the post-pandemic world, more and more adults and teens are looking for support in their mental health.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR Therapy, is a type of psychotherapy. The American Physiological Association conditionally recommends EMDR therapy for the treatment of Trauma and PTSD conditions.

It’s no secret that our youngest kids sometimes have the biggest feelings. Navigating these feelings can be a huge challenge and stressor, both for parents and kids alike. The next time you see your little one headed toward a meltdown, try one of these quick tips to change the course.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing or EMDR is an interactive physiotherapy technique. It was introduced in 1987. EMDR therapy in the Bay Area treats trauma by changing the way traumatic memories are stored in the brain, helping the individual to safely reprocess the event in a controlled environment.

Everyone feels stressed sometimes, but prolonged periods of feeling stressed out can have a major effect on your physical and mental health.

Though mental health awareness is on the rise, it remains a taboo subject. Many people with mental health disorders choose to suffer in silence, instead of reaching out to a loved one for help. Unaddressed mental health problems can snowball into major concerns.

In eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR Therapy, the therapist asks their patient to recall traumatic or distressing memories by leading them through a series of bilateral eye movements or tapping either side of their body.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR therapy, is a type of psychotherapy used to treat PTSD. Many practices now offer EMDR therapy online. The major difference between standard offline EMDR therapy and online EMDR therapy is that online sessions are conducted virtually.

Many people will experience at least one traumatic event in their lifetime. Trauma can have a deep and lasting impact on a person’s physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing and affect their personal and professional life.

Learned helplessness is a mental state in which a person, after experiencing a traumatic stimulus, comes to believe that a bad situation is unavoidable or unescapable. The dread of the situation leaves the person feeling helpless and unable to do anything to change the outcome.

Social Media and Mental Health

In the last few years, depression and anxiety rates have increased by 30% in teenagers. While there is no concrete explanation for this increase in depression, anxiety, and suicidal tendencies in younger people, there could be a cultural explanation, and that’s the massive rise of social media usage.

Anger is often a sign that someone is struggling to process or cope with more profound emotions. When a person doesn’t know how to solve a problem or is in an unfamiliar situation, anger is a common reaction, especially in teens, as they struggle more than others often lacking experience or coping skills to deal with complex emotions.

1. A,B,C

If you struggle with getting important tasks done and find yourself focusing on things like cleaning the kitchen when you need to sit down and finish a big project, this technique is for you!

At the start of your week list out the tasks you need to accomplish. Go back and mark each task with the letter A, B, or C depending on how much of a priority it is for you to accomplish.

Sleep issues are extremely common (and frustrating) affecting between 50-70 million people in the US today.

It can be tough to figure out how to get more sleep and how to feel just overall more rested throughout your day.

To help you create a better sleep hygiene routine, we’ve put together 6 things you can do now to help you sleep better (and wake up feeling like you did!).

Our brains have many parts to them, and when it comes to trauma, having a better understanding of just what’s being affected can help us know what could be most helpful to healing them.

In this post, we are going to walk you through the main parts of the brain that are affected by trauma, and what you can do to help reach the parts of your brain that are most affected by it.

1. Start Small

For many teens, making the jump back into the full swing of school, activities, and friends feels overwhelming after having so much time at home. Help ease them back into being around others by suggesting they try hanging out with just one or two friends to help decrease avoidance and start to feel comfortable again.

The reality of depression is becoming less stigmatized, but there are still misconceptions and assumptions made about it that just aren’t true.

To help better understand depression and how to get help for it, we’re going over 6 depression myths and why they’re not true.

Have you found yourself in a situation where your anger feels out of control?

It can almost seem like a different version of you emerges and you might do or say things you don’t actually mean.

It happens to a lot of us, and anger is a NORMAL human emotion.

But what do we do when our relationships start to deteriorate because of it?