Kelly F Dennis Ms Lpc Counseling & Psychotherapy Reviews

So…I Wrote You lot a Love Song

Posted in Compassion, Self Image tagged Counseling, internal dialogue, Cocky Compassion, self love at 5:30 pm by kellyfdennis

I know that sometimes you feel like you messed up. There are days when you feel similar y'all can't do anything right. You might wake up in the morning and are convinced that you cannot possibly face the twenty-four hours and all there is in it. Or peradventure yous look in the mirror and say to yourself "if people knew the existent me, they would non want to hangout/be with me." You try again and again and again and believe that you just aren't measuring upwards.

Then, I wrote you a honey song; not because you lot asked for information technology, merely because you deserve it:

Nothing that happened yesterday has to determine who you are today; yous are stiff and resilient; you are worthy of health, happiness, love, and affection.

You are radiant, beautiful, of import, and worthy; you can claim your happiness, peace, grace, and honey.

May you be grounded and centered; may you motion through your life with mindfulness, grace, and pity.

My wish for you is to face up today with an open mind, speak kindness to yourself, capture the love that is waiting for you.

You are enough, what you exercise is enough.

You are loved.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Posted in Uncategorized at 2:47 pm by kellyfdennis

Thinking about your thinking

Cognitive Behavioral therapy (CBT) helps you get enlightened of inaccurate, irrational or negative thinking so y'all can view challenging situations more conspicuously and reply to them in a more effective way.

CBT is a useful tool to accost emotional challenges. For example, it may assistance yous:

  • Manage symptoms of a mental illness
  • Forestall a relapse of mental illness symptoms
  • Care for a mental illness when medications aren't a good option
  • Learn techniques for coping with stressful life situations
  • Identify ways to manage emotions
  • Resolve relationship conflicts and larn better means to communicate
  • Cope with grief or loss
  • Overcome emotional trauma related to abuse or violence
  • Cope with a medical illness
  • Manage chronic physical symptoms

CBT typically includes these steps:

  • Identify troubling situations or conditions in your life
  • Become aware of your thoughts, emotions and beliefs about these issues
  • Place negative or inaccurate thinking.
  • Reshape negative or inaccurate thinking

CBT isn't constructive for anybody. Notwithstanding, you tin take steps to get the most out of your therapy and help arrive a success.

  • Approach therapy every bit a partnership
  • Be open and honest
  • Stick to your treatment plan
  • Don't look instant results
  • Practice your in between session homework
  • If information technology isn't helping, talk to your therapist

Counseling for Women

Posted in Uncategorized at 4:31 pm by kellyfdennis

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Counseling that specializes in women'due south issues is a specific area of therapy that can aid women with some of the issues that are unique to them and brand a difference in their lives. Some examples might include friend, family or intimate relationship troubles, childbirth, fertility, daughter-parent misunderstandings, and identity struggles. Sometimes just a few sessions with a professional tin aid you sort out some of the near challenging aspects of beingness a woman. Counseling can help you lot to navigate these difficulties and acquire tools to cope differently with the struggles unique to being a adult female. Phone call me today to talk almost how I can help!

Values

Posted in Uncategorized at half-dozen:32 pm by kellyfdennis

Many people know what their values are and some have to explore. If you need exploration, try this do.

Rank society this list of values from least important to you to virtually important to you. So pick your peak 5 and explore how you're living in your values in the domains of your emotional cocky, physical self, psychological self, and spiritual self.

A Values Checklist

Below are some mutual values.

  1. Credence/self-acceptance: to be accepting of myself, others, life, etc.
  2. Adventure: to be adventurous; to actively explore novel or stimulating experiences
  3. Assertiveness: to respectfully stand upwards for my rights and request what I desire
  4. Actuality: to exist accurate, genuine, and real; to exist true to myself
  5. Caring/self-intendance: to exist caring toward myself, others, the environment, etc.
  6. Compassion/self-pity: to act kindly toward myself and others in pain
  7. Connection: to engage fully in whatever I'm doing and be fully present with others
  8. Contribution and generosity: to contribute, give, help, assist, or share
  9. Cooperation: to be cooperative and collaborative with others
  10. Courage: to be mettlesome or brave; to persist in the face up of fright, threat, or difficulty
  11. Creativity: to be artistic or innovative
  12. Curiosity: to be curious, open up-minded, and interested; to explore and discover
  13. Encouragement: to encourage and advantage behavior that I value in myself or others
  14. Date: to appoint fully in what I am doing
  15. Fairness and justice: to be fair and just to myself or others
  16. Fitness: to maintain or improve or look later my physical and mental health
  17. Flexibility: to conform and accommodate readily to changing circumstances
  18. Freedom and independence: to cull how I live and assistance others do as well
  19. Friendliness: to exist friendly, companionable, or agreeable toward others
  20. Forgiveness/self-forgiveness: to exist forgiving toward myself or others
  21. Fun and humor: to exist fun loving; to seek, create, and engage in fun-filled activities
  22. Gratitude: to be grateful for and appreciative of myself, others, and life
  23. Honesty: to be honest, truthful, and sincere with myself and others
  24. Manufacture: to exist industrious, hardworking, and defended
  25. Intimacy: to open up, reveal, and share myself, emotionally or physically
  26. Kindness: to be kind, considerate, nurturing, or caring toward myself or others
  27. Love: to act lovingly or affectionately toward myself or others
  28. Mindfulness: to be open to, engaged in and curious about the present moment
  29. Gild: to be orderly and organized
  30. Persistence and commitment: to proceed resolutely, despite problems or difficulties.
  31. Respect/self-respect: to treat myself and others with care and consideration
  32. Responsibility: to be responsible and accountable for my actions
  33. Condom and protection: to secure, protect, or ensure my own safety or that of others
  34. Sensuality and pleasure: to create or enjoy pleasurable and sensual experiences
  35. Sexuality: to explore or express my sexuality
  36. Skillfulness: to continually exercise and improve my skills and apply myself fully
  37. Supportiveness: to be supportive, helpful and available to myself or others

Teletherapy Comfort

Posted in Advice, Online Counseling, Well-beingness tagged Online Counseling, safety, teletherapy at ii:40 pm past kellyfdennis

computerandtabletwvseeFor many, those 2 words are mutually sectional! So, here are some tips to make online counseling a little more comfortable.

-Set some time aside before your appointment to write down things you'd like to address, practice some deep breathing, and go into the "therapy" mindset (whatever that is for you).

-Make the space as private and comfortable as possible. Once you find a set that feels good, use it every fourth dimension. Detect a comfortable coating, a stuffed fauna (or a real i, if they won't be distracting), light a candle, and let yourself to feel safe and comfy.

-Feel free to tell your therapist to change positions. Some clients like me to lean in then they tin see more of my facial expression, some like information technology better when I sit dorsum. Don't be afraid to ask for what you need.

-Gear up aside some time after your appointment to decompress. Remember you used to take a machine ride or a walk home afterwards therapy, now you just open the door and Boom! you're back with family. Have some fourth dimension to transition.

-Go along your expectations in check. Online therapy is unlike from face-to-face, but unlike isn't bad, just dissimilar!

I hope you'll try some of those before your next online counseling session. Be well and have wonderful day!

COVID 19 Update

Posted in Uncategorized at 12:24 pm past kellyfdennis

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I accept switched from the physical role location to tele-therapy. I understand that the by few weeks have been challenging. I'yard doing my function to continue the spread of the virus down. This is a trying time, but we will get through information technology together as a community.

For those of you struggling with eating disorders, you may find an increase in behaviors or urges to engage in behaviors as a means for coping with the anxiety, fear, powerlessness, or loneliness you may be experiencing right now.

For those struggling with anxiety due to disruption in routines, worry or fears of the spread of the virus, or you or a loved one contracting information technology, you may be finding information technology hard to at-home the constant barrage of thoughts plaguing yous.

For those struggling with depression, the social distancing and isolation (although that might be just what you think you demand), tin can exacerbate the lack of motivation, lack of self-care.

I hear you, I run into y'all (existing clients and those who are reading this for the first time) and even though I'm not meeting with folks in the office correct now, I want you to know that I am doing my all-time to make tele-therapy a safe, secure, and viable selection for you.

I am also accepting new clients via tele-therapy. Stay safe and healthy.

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Doubt, Isolation, Worry

Posted in Uncategorized at four:04 pm by kellyfdennis

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A recipe for depression, feet, anger, and many other feelings. In this challenging time, yous may find yourself struggling due to the lack of structure, unpredictability, being cutting off from your social contacts. These circumstances tin can exacerbate existing mental illnesses. Instead of "waiting it out", please contact your therapist and talk almost what'southward going on for you. Continued therapy is essential for mental wellness.

However, even those without formal mental illness diagnoses may find it helpful to talk and gain guidance in creating resources for mental wellness during this time. I am conducting counseling sessions via a video conversation platform. In non-pandemic times, I require an initial face to face session before beginning teletherapy. However, I am waiving that requirement and accepting new clients vial the online platform immediately. I as well offer a reduced experience/sliding scale option for those in financial demand. Check out www.openpathcollective.org to learn more.

Please don't struggle any longer. Information technology is my opinion that this current state of affairs will last for awhile. And then contact me, or some other licensed therapist conducting telehealth, today. Make a plan to work toward feeling improve.

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Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation

Posted in Uncategorized at ii:47 pm by kellyfdennis

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Sabbatum, March 14, 2020; 9:00 am-11:thirty am and 12:30pm-three:00pm at the Counseling office: 304 Northward. George St., Millersville, PA 17551

This ii-session class is designed to introduce the concepts of mindfulness and mindfulness strategies in a purposeful way in society to facilitate the integration of mindfulness into your daily life.

"Mindfulness is awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally. It'due south virtually knowing what is on your listen," Jon Kabat-Zinn. Equally we acquire to create purposeful present moment awareness we begin to see the irresolute of things in our lives that cause united states of america stress. We acquire to relate to our difficulties in life with more openness, compassion, and acceptance.

Mindfulness concepts covered will include: Mindfulness and the scientific inquiry, Mindfulness of the breath and trunk, Obstacles to mindfulness, Mindfulness with difficult emotions, Mindfulness with difficult thoughts

Mindfulness Meditation practices will include:  Mindfulness of breath and trunk, Sensory mindfulness, Mindful eating, Mindful movement

Each session will be a combination of practice, lecture, and group discussion. Each session is taught in a supportive surroundings with no more half dozen people. The sessions are open to all ages, backgrounds, and religions.

Cost: $95.00 for the 2 sessions (total day sign up hither) and materials needed for the course. You may sign upwards for Morn just here for a cost of $50.00 or afternoon only here for a cost of $50.00. Kelly F. Dennis MS LPC is the facilitator. Photograph by Pixabay on Pexels.com

Radical Pity-Day 10

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Sounds True and Tara Brach present a x day radical compassion challenge.

My takeaways today are many. Listening to understand and to connect with the reverence for all lives. Even those lives with whom yous strongly disagree! Yikes! Van Jones was persistent in this interview nigh the ways in which we don't "see" the other person, we simply "run into" what they are arguing for or against. Pity starts with a yearning to empathize some other's humanness.

Tara's meditation today focused on bringing others to listen and seeing our shared vulnerability with them. Those nosotros love, those nosotros're in conflict with, those we don't know because they are so unlike from u.s.a., the other beings that inhabit this planet with us and the globe herself. "Cultivating a reverence for all life."

What a journeying! I am so thankful to accept made the time for this!

Radical Pity-Day 9

Posted in Uncategorized at 12:57 pm by kellyfdennis

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Sounds Truthful and Tara Brach present a 10 day radical compassion challenge.

Very powerful messages today from Krista Tippett nearly vulnerability, compassion and dearest. I adore this quote, "To beloved someone is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them when they accept forgotten."-Arne Garborg.  Nosotros need to lean into compassion and compassion requires curiosity about others. A willingness to be surprised and acquire from them, fifty-fifty if we disagree.

Tara'due south meditation was a practiced reminder. We are so quick to notice the flaws of others. The  meditation focused on the goodness and appreciation of another.

Good Stuff!

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