Being in Service to Others At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in March of 2020, Life Balance Counseling went from an in-person practice seeing clients of all ages to a telehealth private practice that sees adults and couples in counseling for mental health needs. After careful consideration in 2025, Life Balance Counseling has moved to a hybrid model, seeing clients virtually and in person. As well as moving to an individual, family, couples, adolescent, and adult counseling practice. The extension in services came after the pandemic subsided, with the desire to further fill the gap by providing services to underserved populations seeing adolescents and taking additional traditional insurance, private pay, employee assistance programs, and affordable counseling. Marginalized communities are the business of Life Balance Counseling. Life Balance Counseling is a Black Woman Owned Business. While working with the Bipoc community to increase services to marginalized communities is the business of Life Balance Counseling. Life Balance Counseling works with all cultures, ethnicities, and groups of people and does not discriminate against the race, gender, sex, age, or disability of people. All people are welcome at Life Balance Counseling. Essential Business Mental health counseling was noted as essential during the COVID-19 pandemic, during which Life Balance Counseling saw its record number of clients from 2020 – 2023. Life Balance Counseling was in high demand as people dealt with various forms of loss, illness, and unforeseen
our clients. Life Balance Counseling fosters a therapeutic alliance and a trusting environment by building relationships with our clients by actively listening, assessing client needs, prioritizing the order of needs, collaborating with clients, setting goals and a treatment plan, and being direct in the therapy setting. Clients exit therapy with an increased sense of self and insight, managing anxiety symptoms, moving through grief and loss, emotionally regulated, mitigating depressive symptoms, building healthy relationships, increasing tools and resources, and sustaining self-worth and value. Clients are encouraged to access resources available to nurture themselves, others, and what is dear to them. Emotional Regulation Guiding clients as they manage their emotions is a priority at Life Balance Counseling. Emotional regulation is a primary goal in assisting clients in finding ways to manage their emotions, decrease their stress, develop better coping skills, keep emotions in check, and feel better about their composure and disposition. The reason Life Balance Counseling feels strongly about emotional regulation includes reducing arrests. Arrests increase anxiety and depression. Since there is a disparity in people of color being arrested even when they do not commit a crime, it is imperative to be mindful of conduct and sobriety in the hopes of reducing this number and criminalization. Emotional dysregulation impacts individuals and their family unit. The term this is hard to watch goes deeper when experiencing someone emotionally dysregulated. The helplessness that ensues causes mental health challenges for all who experience the dysregulated person. Emotional dysregulation has several physical effects, such as increasing cortisol levels and putting the body in a state of fight or flight. Physical effects of emotional dysregulation can include headaches, stomachaches, muscle tension, digestive issues, changes in appetite, dizziness, and fatigue. Life Balance Counseling sees a path forward if the person struggling uses resources and gets help.
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