by Maureen O'Connell | Jan 12, 2024 | Anxiety, Psychotherapy
What is OCD? Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental health condition characterized by persistent, intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors or mental acts (compulsions) that individuals feel compelled to perform. These thoughts and behaviors...
by Maureen O'Connell | Dec 27, 2023 | Anxiety, Psychotherapy
What is Anxiety? Anxiety is a natural response to stress or danger, often referred to as the body’s “fight or flight” mechanism. While occasional anxiety is a normal part of life, persistent and overwhelming feelings of anxiety can develop into an...
by Maureen O'Connell | Dec 19, 2023 | Anxiety
The thing with anxiety is that oftentimes it is very much in the body and people experience it in different parts of their body, and they can locate it and say that it’s, you know, focused in their stomach or it’s focused up in their back and shoulders or...
by Maureen O'Connell | Dec 12, 2023 | Anxiety
The first thing I want to say is that in my almost 18 years of being a counselor in different settings and being a therapist in private practice, pretty much everybody deals with anxiety. Good Anxiety vs Bad Anxiety It’s just a question of the degree of it and...
by Maureen O'Connell | Feb 26, 2023 | Anxiety
What are panic attacks and is there a difference between anxiety attacks and panic attacks? Now this is a topic that a lot of people want to know about and a lot of people suffer from and they have no idea what to do about. Anxiety Attack vs Panic Attack So I want to...
