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Navigating Mental Health After a Miscarriage

Losing a pregnancy can feel like the world stops spinning. While the physical healing may be visible and monitored, the emotional journey is often quieter, more private, and far less acknowledged. At Chenal Family Therapy, we know how deeply miscarriage can impact a person’s emotional and mental well-being, often in ways that others may not see or fully understand.

If you’ve experienced pregnancy loss, it’s important to remember: your grief is valid. Your pain deserves support. And your mental health matters.

Coping with Career Changes and Identity Shifts

Career changes are more than a shift in job title or workplace, they often come with deep emotional experiences and identity questions. Whether it’s a voluntary decision or a transition brought on by external circumstances, career changes can feel destabilizing. At...

How to Manage Anxiety During a Pandemic

How to Manage Anxiety During a Pandemic

How to Manage Anxiety During a PandemicAs the pandemic drags on many people are experiencing skyrocketing anxiety and stress. This is a very normal response to a dangerous illness spreading across the globe. Responses of fear, sadness, uncertainty, and powerlessness...

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Virtual Counseling During a Pandemic

Virtual Counseling During a Pandemic

Virtual Counseling During a Pandemic To help prevent the spread and transmission of COVID-19, social distancing has been recommended by the CDC whenever possible. While social distancing is an important measure meant to protect our physical health, it has wreaked...

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Child Therapy Services

Child Therapy Services

What is Child Therapy and What to ExpectSeparation anxiety, tantrums, moodiness and defiant behaviors are all typical developmental challenges that nearly all children experience at certain points during childhood and adolescence.  These same behaviors can also be...

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What is Trauma and How to Treat It

What is Trauma and How to Treat It

Trauma and How to Treat ItWhat is trauma? Trauma has many names, can take many forms, and is no respecter of persons. At a surface level, trauma looks like the child who is afraid to go to sleep at night because of having nightmares about the “bad man who hurt me” or...

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LaShelle Hill, Texarkana Therapist for Chenal Family Therapy

LaShelle Hill, Texarkana Therapist for Chenal Family Therapy

I recently had the opportunity to talk with LaShelle Hill, LPC, who is a counselor at our Texarkana clinic. I completely admire LaShelle’s kind, empathic, and direct personality. It is a real skill to be able to speak softly but clearly about what one believes, and I...

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4 Signs You May Need Couple’s Counseling

4 Signs You May Need Couple’s Counseling

4 Signs You May Need Couple's Counseling By: Sarah Umphries, LPE-IOften couples come to Chenal Family Therapy PLC seeking counseling as a last ditch effort to save their relationship.  By this time they have been through months, if not years, of off-and-on conflict,...

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5 Communication Techniques to Help Your Marriage

5 Communication Techniques to Help Your Marriage

5 Communication Techniques to Help Your Marriage By: Dr. Gail Lane, LPC, LMFTConnection.  Alignment. Being in tune with one another.  Feeling the love. Stars aligning. Flow. Jeehawing (as my grandmother puts it).  Whatever you call it, it can sometimes be hard to get...

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3 Reasons We Love Online Counseling

3 Reasons We Love Online Counseling

3 Reasons We Love Online CounselingSomeday, when historians are asked about the innovations that changed the landscape of healthcare, online counseling (and other forms of telemedicine) will inevitably be at the top of their list along with antibiotics, x-rays, and...

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Four Reasons You Should Never Ignore Your Grief

Four Reasons You Should Never Ignore Your Grief

Four Reasons You Should Never Ignore Your Grief By: Rachel Pinto, MS, LPCThe truth that we all know, and that we all hate, is this: grief is a part of life. By adulthood, nearly 75% of the population of the United States has experienced what those of us in the...

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