How do psychologists in Atlanta address emotional issues related to aging and loss of independence?
The morning a person hands over the car keys, or accepts a grab bar in the shower, or waits for an adult child to drive them…
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The morning a person hands over the car keys, or accepts a grab bar in the shower, or waits for an adult child to drive them…
People describe it in oddly consistent images: watching their own life through a window, going through the motions with the sound turned down, feeling like a…
Trauma that happened once, to an adult, in a moment, is hard enough. Trauma that ran for years through childhood, woven into the people a child…
A trauma survivor often comes to dread the part of the day that is supposed to bring relief. Going to bed means lowering one’s guard, and…
The plans were specific. A certain title by forty, a house in a certain school district, a marathon next spring, a child by now. Then something…
A relationship can be going well by every outward measure and still feel like it has hit an invisible ceiling. The partner is kind, the affection…
There is a useful distinction that often opens this work. Guilt says “I did something bad.” Shame says “I am bad.” Guilt points at an action…
The new job is going well, which is part of what makes the guilt so confusing. A person left a role they had outgrown, made a…
A person can run a flawless client presentation at work, then freeze at the thought of a Saturday dinner with three friends. The reverse happens too:…
A manager offers a single line of routine feedback on a report, and the rest of the day is gone. The person cannot concentrate, replays the…
Halfway through a sentence, a person is already adding caveats, doubling back to restate, watching the listener’s face for the flicker that means it landed wrong,…
A person spends three evenings researching which of two nearly identical appliances to buy, reading reviews long after any new information has stopped appearing. The decision…
Long after the relationship ends, the commentary continues. A person makes a small mistake and hears, in their own head, the exact phrasing a former partner…
Most trauma recovery does not require returning to the place it happened every weekday morning. Workplace trauma is different on exactly that point. A person who…
Someone can answer the question “What do you want for dinner?” without hesitation and go completely blank when asked what they want for their life. That…
An adult is decades past the home they grew up in, doing well by most measures, and yet a particular tone of voice from a boss,…
Two people can want closeness just as badly and reach for it in opposite ways. One texts again when a partner goes quiet, certain that silence…
There is a specific moment many people describe when work has become too much: a short email arrives, the kind that would once have taken two…
Some family decisions have no clean answer. Moving a parent into care against their stated wishes, dividing limited resources among siblings, choosing between the needs of…
When a close friend dies or a deep friendship ends, the people around the grieving person often expect them to recover quickly, sometimes within days. There…
The hardest seasons are rarely about one big thing. A person can usually weather a single major change, but life tends to deliver them in clusters:…
For someone caught in chronic worry about the future, the present can become almost uninhabitable. The mind keeps fast-forwarding into a reel of possible catastrophes, a…
A bride-to-be has the venue booked and the dress fitted, and lies awake not over seating charts but over a question she cannot quite finish: am…
Few relationships can provoke anger the way family can, and there is a reason for that. These are the people who installed many of the buttons…
The schedule is full and the life looks right from the outside, and that is precisely what makes the complaint hard to voice. A person has…