We are excited to highlight our newest member of the team, Orlando therapist Elizabeth Chambers, LMHC. Elizabeth specializes in working with adults and teens struggling with anxiety, trauma, self-esteem, and depression. As a teen therapist in Orlando, she answered some questions you may be wondering about before getting started.

Finding a therapist to help your teenager can be tough. You may search for “teen counselor in Orlando” on Google and find many results - but how do you know which one is the right fit for your teen? What questions should you ask to choose a counselor? It can be difficult to know how to find the right counselor for your teen, especially if this is the first time you are looking for a counselor. I am here to help you navigate this task! My name is Elizabeth Chambers and I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Orlando who specializes in working with teens.

Orlando Therapist Offering Helpful Tips about How to Talk to Your Teen. You are constantly arguing - day after day you are going in circles about the same topics with no resolution. It’s impossible to get through the day without some disagreement taking place. How can you begin to improve your relationship when you can’t agree on the simplest things?

As I’ve been going through the EMDR consultant-in-training process, I have come across some commonly asked questions from clients and from other EMDR therapists. I have created a list of answers to some commonly asked questions regarding EMDR Therapy.

We understand that if this is your first time journaling it can be overwhelming and a little stressful so we went ahead and gathered 100 journaling prompts for you to get you started. We also separated them into various categories so depending on what you’re in the mood to journal about you can pick from - self-reflection, employment, daily life, stress, and anxiety.

Being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease can be enlightening and frustrating at the same time. The doctor gives a prescription, maybe some referrals, and you’re on the way out the door. That’s it right? Well, I wish it were that easy. It wasn’t that long ago that I was also in that very same place.

The staff at Mindful Living Counseling Orlando picked five of their favorite books they highly recommend you read in 2022. These books are a gentle reminder of ways you can find comfort and distraction when you start to feel anxious or stressed. You can also pick up these books anytime throughout the year when you need to refocus your energy and find some peace. Our list includes a book to help ease your anxiety, a book simply for distraction, and a book for some self-help.

As Orlando Therapists at Mindful Living Counseling, we understand that 2021 has been a tough year for everyone. We are still living through a pandemic even though we have found some sense of normality we are all still adjusting and dealing with daily stressors. It has been a challenging year for all of us and despite the progress, we have made, it can be hard to celebrate any personal accomplishments when the world is still healing.

At Mindful Living Counseling Orlando, we will often work with our clients in developing and understanding all the various aspects of themselves. This guided practice is intended to be a resource if you started a practice of exploring internal aspects of self. This is a guided practice that is intended to be a daily check-in to notice any aspects of self that may be disturbed and need some additional support.

Mindful Living Counseling Orlando provides grounding practices to our clients that struggle with anxiety and trauma. Guided meditation is one of our favorite grounded techniques

Get yourself into a comfortable space, and ready to listen to our guided meditation Working with Parts of Self.

Even though you’re in a healthy relationship, do you sometimes feel like the two of you are in a rut? Does it feel like things are sorta stagnant or like you’re talking about the same things over and over again, kids, work, house stuff.

Does it feel like the depth is missing and you find yourself longing for a little bit more of your partner?

It may be time to take a moment to reflect, taking the time to shift your focus on what's important when you start to feel this overwhelming sensation that your relationship is not where you want it to be. I hope this grounds you and reminds you of where you need to focus your energy to nourish your relationship whether you’re dating, looking at your friendships, or married.

At Mindful Living Counseling Orlando, we help people heal from and stop the cycle of unhealthy and toxic relationships. All of our therapists specialize in helping people move out of unhealthy relationships patterns so that you can enjoy meaningful and satisfying relationships.

Do you experience anxiety, sleep problems, and feeling overwhelmed? How about the inability to focus or mood swings? Did you know these are symptoms of both PTSD and ADHD?

Talk about feeling overwhelmed… trying to suss out the difference between both of these diagnoses can be overwhelming. Is it PTSD? Is it ADHD? Or is it both?

At Mindful Living Counseling Orlando, almost all of our clients struggle with some form of PTSD, whether it be from a single life-threatening event, from years of not having their emotional needs met in childhood or some variation of the two.

You’re longing for closeness in relationships, but you just can’t seem to make that deep connection. You can’t quite put your finger on what is preventing you from making that meaningful and lasting connection.

You’ve even gone so far as to reflect on your old relationships and evaluate your unhealthy relationship patterns, but even with all this self-reflection and learning from your past, that feeling of being deeply emotionally connected continues to evade you.

At Mindful Living Counseling Orlando, we help people heal from and stop getting into toxic relationships. All of our therapists specialize in helping people move out of unhealthy relationships, so that they can cultivate meaningful and satisfying relationships.

Do you often feel angry and resentful in relationships? Do you feel powerless and stuck? Does it seem like you are at the mercy of other people’s moods or decisions? If so, it’s time to stop the blame game, get your footing, and take your power back in your life.

At Mindful Living Counseling Orlando, we use EMDR therapy to treat the above issues and more. Lately, we’ve been getting a lot of calls and folks are asking, “Do you think EMDR is a good fit for me?”

Our answer is usually a resounding, “Yes!” If you’re feeling stuck, EMDR Therapy can help. Below are some common scenarios where folks feel stuck and EMDR Therapy can offer help and healing.