Talking About The Difficult
By Tyler White, MA, LPCC on Saturday, March 22nd, 2025 in Cognitive Behavior. No Comments
By Tyler White, MA, LPCC on Saturday, March 22nd, 2025 in Cognitive Behavior. No Comments
I’m a die-hard Seattle Seahawks fan. I was raised just outside of Seattle, and rooting for Seattle sports teams was engrained in me from a young age. Regardless of who you root for, sports fans are generally taught to celebrate their successes, but avoid their failure like the plague. We’ll celebrate beating the Broncos in […]
By Tyler White, MA, LPCC on Sunday, February 16th, 2025 in Christian Counseling Blog Archives. No Comments
One of the most common grievances I hear from clients is something to the effect of “this is taking too long to heal.” Often, my response to this qualm is “well how long have you been dealing with it?” The response here is often “years,” “longer than I can remember,” or, in some cases, “my […]
By Tyler White, MA, LPCC on Saturday, January 18th, 2025 in Christian Counseling Blog Archives. No Comments
In the first season of Ted Lasso, Ted is playing a game of darts against one of the antagonists in the story, Rupert. Towards the end of the game, Ted was talking about how he had been underestimated by people his whole life. For years, this bothered him, but then he saw the quote “be […]
By Tyler White, MA, LPCC on Saturday, December 14th, 2024 in Depression. No Comments
One of the most common things I hear this time of year from clients are how difficult the holidays are. Almost unanimously, once a client tells me something to this effect, the next thing they tell me is that they feel completely alone in this feeling. Not only is this time of year tougher than […]
By Tyler White, MA, LPCC on Saturday, November 16th, 2024 in Marriage Counseling. No Comments
As kind of a sentiment as wedding speeches are, there have been few that have left a lasting impression on me. That is perhaps what made one of the speeches from a wedding I recently attended so memorable and profound. The father-of-the-groom, a retired marriage and family therapist, talked about how in his career he […]