Mountainside Counseling Blog

My grief is overwhelming me. I can’t get over that they are gone. I can’t wrap my head around it, I don’t feel like myself, and I feel like a part of me died with them. What happens now? This is really a terrible feeling. There is often of feeling like you are out of […]

Is it weird for me to say that I don’t like myself? I just, I don’t know where to start. Can you help me with that? Do you ever talk to yourself? Do you think that it is weird when you speak out loud and you’re asking yourself questions about what is happening in your […]

It is rather confusing and frustrating because I feel lost, like I’m sitting in this space all alone, with no idea who I am really. Do you help with things like this? Absolutely. As a millennial we were expected at very young ages to answer these existential questions about ourselves. Why am I here? Who […]

Are you used to taking clients so emotionally in shock and not together? Absolutely. This is a big passion of mine, and I have done it a number of times. We get this big news like “Mom died, dad died, sister/brother died,” or “I found out who my birth parents are” or “I found out […]

What a great question! One of the things that we often never get taught to learn how to do is mourn. A break up, a loss of a friend, even a death all encompass a process of mourning. One of the things that is super important when dealing with a loss is self-awareness. This seems […]