Most people don’t come to counseling when life is calm and predictable. They come when something has fallen apart, a relationship, a plan, a sense of stability, or they feel lost and don’t know what to do.
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Why your negative thinking isn’t the problem by Susie Berg
Pessimism and negative thinking get a bad rap. But in therapy, we often discover something surprising:
they usually started as a form of protection.
For many people, pessimism showed up with good intentions.
The Power of Perception: The World Through New Lenses by Susie Berg
Perception is not a passive lens through which we observe the world; it is an active process that shapes how we experience reality. In counseling, one of the most transformative insights clients gain is recognizing that two people can encounter the same event and walk away with entirely different emotional responses, not because the event was different, but because their perceptions were.
When Helping Becomes Over-Care: Finding Your Way Out of a Life That Feels Stuck by Susie Berg LPC
Many people come to counseling because they feel trapped in a pattern, they can’t quite name, a pattern that leaves them exhausted, resentful, or quietly grieving the life they imagined. One of the most common versions of this is over-caring for a partner while under-caring for oneself. It often begins from a loving, generous place… and then slowly becomes a cycle that keeps both people stuck.