Did you know? Youth with significant symptoms of depression are 2 times more likely to drop out of school The 2nd leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 10-34 is suicide Lesbian, gay and bisexual teens are 4 times more likely to die by suicide than non-LGBT+ youth 75% of individuals who die by suicide are males...[ read more ]
Elaine Moss, LCSW, owner and therapist at Empower Counseling Center LLC has been approved to provide low cost supervision for the Georgia Society of Clinical Social Work (GSCSW). Serving Suwanee and Gwinnett county with a focus on private practice work with adolescents, adults, and couples. Specializing in the treatment of depression, anxiety, stress, and life changes. Modalities include CBT, DBT-informed,...[ read more ]
Did you know that couples are unhappy in their marriage for an average of six years before they get help? You don’t have to figure out how to improve your marriage on your own – we can help. Empower Counseling offers The Gottman Relationship Checkup as a tool to supercharge couple’s counseling sessions. This tool is based on decades of...[ read more ]
It’s hot. It’s humid. You just don’t feel like it. It almost doesn’t matter what “it” is. You’d rather do just about anything than wear shorts, sandals, or a bathing suit in public. Going to a BBQ does not sound like fun and neither does making your signature pot luck dish. If one more person tells you they’re bored, you...[ read more ]
Often, when we talk about relationships, we refer to romantic partners, but there are many other types of relationships in our lives that we must nurture. To be happy, we don’t just need relationships in our life, we need relationships that work. Here are ten tips for relationships that work that come from a survey of over 1,000 peer-reviewed research...[ read more ]
This week, Thervo.com reached out to met to let me know that Empower Counseling was reviewed, along with 73 other local businesses, and chosen as a Top 10 marriage counseling business in the area. We’re super proud to be featured on their website on the list of the Best Pros in our area for 2019. Here’s an excerpt from the...[ read more ]
Ikigai is a Japanese concept that basically means a reason for being. It’s described as the thing that gives your life meaning, or a reason to get up in the morning. This beautiful and simple idea is usually represented visually with overlapping circles representing Ikigai as the intersection of: What you love What you are good at What the world...[ read more ]
About a million years ago (somewhere between 1978-1982) on a TV show called WKRP in Cincinnati, Les Nessman was a terribly incompetent, painfully awkward character, who was still somehow rather lovable. One of the funniest things about Les was that he worked in an open plan office with several others, but believed he should have his own private office, so...[ read more ]
Back in graduate school, one of my favorite professors posed this question to our class: “What are three things that happy people have in common?” Multiple people from our struggling student demographic quickly chimed in with the same first answer: Money! “NOPE” said our professor. While, arguably, there is a certain amount of money needed to cover basic life expenses,...[ read more ]
