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What Challenges May Occur When a Child with ADHD Transitions from High School to College?
What Challenges May Occur When a Child with ADHD Transitions from High School to College? 2560 1692 Long Island Counseling Services

Graduation season is one of the most celebrated milestones in a family’s life. Caps and gowns, photos, parties — a recognition that years of hard work have led somewhere meaningful. For families of students with ADHD, there is genuine pride in that moment and, often quietly alongside it, a significant amount of worry about what comes next. The high school to college transition is one of the most challenging passages any young person navigates. For…

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Benefits of Receiving Teen Therapy After High School Graduation
Benefits of Receiving Teen Therapy After High School Graduation 2560 1707 Long Island Counseling Services

High school graduation is supposed to feel like a beginning. For many young people, it does. For others — more than anyone talks about — it feels destabilizing in ways that are hard to explain to the people around them who are celebrating. The structure that organized eighteen years of daily life disappears almost overnight. The social network that felt permanent is suddenly scattered. The question of who you are without the context of school,…

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Parents vs. Kids — Who Should Get Therapy for Family Struggles?
Parents vs. Kids — Who Should Get Therapy for Family Struggles? 2560 1706 Long Island Counseling Services

When a child is acting out, shutting down, or making life at home genuinely difficult, the instinct most parents have is to find a therapist for the child. Get the child into a room with a professional, have someone work on the behavior, fix the problem. It makes sense on the surface. The behavior is coming from the child, so the intervention should be directed at the child. That logic holds in certain situations. It…

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Therapist for Parenting?
Therapist for Parenting? 2560 1602 Long Island Counseling Services

Society talks a lot about parenting being “hard.” But they don’t talk about how to address that. Parenting IS a challenge. Early on, it’s a lot of sleepless nights and managing the needs of a fragile creature that can’t take care of itself. Later, it’s a lot of errands, homework, fights over food, and so much more. We know that caregivers – people that take care of someone that is unable to take care of…

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Chronic Sleep Deprivation’s Effects on Relationships
Chronic Sleep Deprivation’s Effects on Relationships 2560 1709 Long Island Counseling Services

Most couples who are struggling don’t connect their problems to sleep. They identify the arguments that keep cycling back around, the emotional distance that’s been growing, the partner who seems irritable or checked out. They notice the relationship getting harder without understanding why. Sleep is rarely on the list of suspects — and that can be a problem, because chronic sleep deprivation does measurable, specific damage to the exact things that hold a relationship together.…

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What to Expect — With Your Mental Health — When You’re Expecting
What to Expect — With Your Mental Health — When You’re Expecting 2560 1707 Long Island Counseling Services

Pregnancy is supposed to be one of the most joyful times of a person’s life. And for many people, it is. But it can also be one of the most emotionally complicated, anxiety-producing, and mentally exhausting experiences a person goes through — and that part doesn’t get talked about nearly enough. The reality is that mental health during pregnancy is just as important as physical health, and the two are more connected than most people…

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What Are the Mental Health Effects of Perimenopause?
What Are the Mental Health Effects of Perimenopause? 2560 1707 Long Island Counseling Services

Perimenopause is one of the most talked-about health transitions women go through — and yet the mental health dimension of it remains surprisingly underrecognized. Most of the conversation centers on the physical: hot flashes, irregular periods, night sweats, changes in sleep. Those are real and significant. But for many women, the psychological effects are what feel most disorienting, and they’re also the symptoms that get dismissed or misattributed most often. Perimenopause typically begins in a…

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When Work Stress Stops Being Temporary
When Work Stress Stops Being Temporary 2560 1707 Long Island Counseling Services

Everyone has stressful periods at work. A deadline that piles everything onto one week, a difficult manager, a stretch where the workload is unreasonable and you’re running on too little sleep. That kind of stress is unpleasant, but it has an edge — it ends, you recover, and life goes back to normal. The problem is when it doesn’t. When the stressful stretch stretches into months, and the months add up, and the recovery that…

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How Therapy Has Been Changing
How Therapy Has Been Changing 2560 1619 Long Island Counseling Services

Therapy has evolved significantly over the past few decades. One of the most important developments in recent years is polyvagal theory — a framework that’s changing how therapists understand and treat anxiety, trauma, emotional regulation, and many other mental health challenges. If you’ve ever wondered why you can’t just “think your way out” of anxiety, or why knowing something logically doesn’t stop you from feeling anxious or panicked, polyvagal theory offers answers. It explains what’s…

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The Types of OCD That People Don’t Talk About
The Types of OCD That People Don’t Talk About 2560 1693 Long Island Counseling Services

When most people think about OCD, they picture someone washing their hands repeatedly or checking the stove ten times before leaving the house. Those are real types of OCD, and they’re debilitating for the people who experience them. But there are other forms of OCD that get far less attention. These lesser-known types of OCD are just as distressing, just as disruptive, and just as deserving of treatment. The problem is that many people who…

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