What is Paranoid Ideation?
Paranoid ideation is a transient, stress-related type of paranoia in which the person baselessly feels threatened, persecuted, or conspired against. Someone experiencing paranoid ideation might feel a general suspicion regarding the motives or intentions of others.
Paranoid ideation is a pattern of thinking characterized by persistent feelings of distrust and suspicion, even when there's no evidence to support those feelings. People with paranoid ideation may believe that others are treating them unfairly or trying to harm them.
Mental Health Healing and Well-being Center
Summerville Women’s Mental Health Services
Mental Health Healing and Well-being Center
We help diverse and multicultural women (cisgender, transgender, non-binary, and woman/feminine identified) living in South Carolina heal from anxiety, depression, gender dysphoria, and trauma/stressors teaching them coping skills, self-esteem, and healthy thinking so they can improve their well-being. We specialize in integrative and holistic women’s mental health counseling and therapy services.
Clinical supervision in South Carolina
Clinical Supervision for Licensed Professional Counselor Associates (LPC/A) in South Carolina available virtually or in person.
Complex posttraumatic stress disorder (c-PTSD)
Complex PTSD (or c-PTSD) is a form of the disorder that has several additional characteristics beyond those of standard PTSD. It typically develops after prolonged trauma, and it’s more common if someone experiences trauma repeatedly over an extended time. Children exposed to ongoing trauma, particularly if it’s caused by a caregiver, are especially vulnerable.
Tips to Reduce Anxiety
Different techniques can be used to help manage symptoms of anxiety at the moment. They can be used whether you’re anxiety is a result of something you are doing or if you have a diagnosed anxiety disorder. The following easy techniques and exercises can be done to help you calm down in the moment.
Summerville Women’s Mental Health Services is a private mental health practice
Summerville Women’s Mental Health Services is a private mental health practice in the heart of Historic Summerville, SC.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) awareness
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) develops in some people who have experienced a shocking, scary, or dangerous event.
Clinical Depression is a disorder of the brain.
Clinical Depression is a disorder of the brain. It is a serious mental illness that is more than just a feeling of being "down in the dumps" or "blue" for a few days. For more than 20 million people in the United States who have depression, the feelings persist and can interfere with everyday life.
Counselors/therapists are NOT Life Coaches, Magicians, Psychics, or Physicians
We are clinical mental health professionals. Only we are credentialed to diagnose, treat, or cure mental health disorders and illnesses.
Anxiety: Symptoms, types, diagnosis, and treatment
Anxiety feels like a state of dread or worry. All of us experience this in small doses which is a normal stress response. It serves a purpose to help us find that extra push for an upcoming situation that can be stressful like a big exam or a wedding.
Mental Health Tip of the Week: Going No-Contact.
Going no-contact. Completely detach yourself from the person and the individual(s) they bring into your life who are toxic, negative, emotionally immature, and complicit in the harmful and disruptive drama.
Mental Health Care for Women Veterans
Mental Health Care for Women Veterans
I specialize in treating women veterans. I provide the most effective, personalized care for women veterans to address their unique mental health challenges and the best practices for treating them. Women veterans experience a higher rate of clinical depression and Post Traumatic Stress disorder (PTSD).
Mental health tip of the week: Strong Boundaries
Strong boundaries are your best friend. When you want someone not welcome in your life to stay away, you have to set and enforce strong boundaries. Staying away can include staying away from your family, your friends, your spaces, your online life, your exes, your work, everything…all the way “away”.
The X-Podcast: real conversations about mental health
Our mission is to teach our community listeners about mental health through psychoeducation and to inspire them through social change.
Mental health tip
It’s natural for us to want to react or respond to someone behaving in unacceptable ways. Most times it’s just a bad mood, unpleasant behavior, or something else. However, there are times when mental health issues are present playing a big role in the behavior.
Acculturation and Mental Health
Acculturation is experienced when a culture tries to adopt the ideas and customs of a different culture that is not its own. This process involves adopting and learning the values, traditions, and behaviors of other societies or groups different than theirs. This often occurs when an individual moves to a new country and tries to adopt the customs of their new environment. It also occurs when a country is colonized by another country and adopts the customs of the colonizing country.
Gender Dysphoria Counseling and Therapy
Gender dysphoria is not the same as simply conforming to the stereotypical gender role behavior we are expected to conform to. It involves severe distress because of a very strong and pervasive need and desire to be another gender. This can be expressed in different ways.
Mental Health Tip: When Dealing with Online Harassment
There are several reasons why harassment might appeal to those who do it. First, it's possible that the harasser never learned how to manage his or her emotions. So when they see something that ticks them off online, they lash out to deal with those feelings.