Counseling & Teletherapy in Georgia

07/16/2025

Our Therapeutic Frames and Settings: From concept to clinical application

including both internal and external aspects--that strongly influence our psychotherapeuticwork. These aspects will be considered through the lenses provided by Jose Bleger, anArgentinian psychoanalyst, who wrote extensively about their importance in shapingpsychodynamic psychotherapy. Until recentl...

11/05/2024

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10/26/2024

https://www.psychoanalysisnow.com/profile/edurne-chopeitia/profile - excited about what the future brings with

10/09/2024

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1.5 Georgia CEs will be provided for Social Workers, Psychologists, Counselors as well as 1.5 CMEs for medical professionals.

ACCME Accreditation Statement: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation
requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint
provider ship of American Psychoanalytic Association and Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute. The American
Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement: The American Psychoanalytic association
designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM .
Physicians should claim only the Credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement: The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has
determined that this activity is not related to the product line of illegible companies, and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation, and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.

01/08/2024

Found a solution for external camera… let’s see what happens over time! In the picture, I’m showing the clear device on a large monitor for zoom meetings or teletherapy sessions.

08/11/2023

(Translation) Lo que llamamos “personalidad” en gran parte se origina en cómo hemos optado [a lo largo de la vida] por defendernos [y evadir] angustias y tristezas.

To learn how we are made of our moods, follow our link below:

https://www.theschooloflife.com/article/we-are-made-of-moods/

06/21/2023

Some of the questions my clients have when they meet me are: What needs to change to feel unstuck? How to shift focus to connect or reconnect with others, to find motivation, to explore new paths? What will it take to understand repeated conflict, fights, sadness? How long will therapy take? How much does it cost?

A consultation with me is a conversation with no agenda other than seeing if we, together, can open a door just so as the first step into a new journey, a new story for your life. It’s a confidential dialogue to discuss anything you want. No idea, thought, feeling, or concern is off-limits.

06/01/2023

Stuffed animals, peluches, ositos y demás.

STUFFED ANIMALS

They are there when no one else is. They listen like no one else can. They understand the injustice of the world, that what happened in the kitchen was entirely unfair, that their sibling was beastly and their parents worse. They are extremely patient, they absorb the tears and look on with benevolent sad eyes. They are nice to chat to when things are good; they are indispensable when they take a turn for the worse.

Later on, they become embarrassing, evoking a vulnerability we’re keen to escape from. But, if our development has gone well, what was trialled in the presence of a stuffed animal should continue all of our lives -– because, by definition, we will frequently be let down by the people around us, who won’t be able to understand us, listen to our griefs and be kind to us in the manner we crave and require. Every healthy adult should therefore possess a capacity for self-nurture: that is, for retreating to a safe secluded space and speaking in a tone that’s gentle, encouraging and infinitely forgiving. That we don’t formally label the understanding self ‘white rabbit’ or ‘yellow bear’ shouldn’t obscure the debt that the nurturing adult self owes to its earlier embodiment in a furry toy.

We should honour stuffed animals for what they really are: tools to help us on our first steps in the vital business of knowing how to look after ourselves.

To read our full article on the wonders of stuffed animals, follow our link below:

https://www.theschooloflife.com/article/stuffed-animals/

05/21/2023

About choosing with open eyes.

“I don’t know if I’ve learned anything yet! I did learn how to have a happy home, but I consider myself fortunate in that regard because I could’ve rolled right by it. Everybody has a superficial side and a deep side, but this culture doesn’t place much value on depth — we don’t have shamans or soothsayers, and depth isn’t encouraged or understood. Surrounded by this shallow, glossy society we develop a shallow side, too, and we become attracted to fluff. That’s reflected in the fact that this culture sets up an addiction to romance based on insecurity — the uncertainty of whether or not you’re truly united with the object of your obsession is the rush people get hooked on. I’ve seen this pattern so much in myself and my friends and some people never get off that line.
But along with developing my superficial side, I always nurtured a deeper longing, so even when I was falling into the trap of that other kind of love, I was hip to what I was doing. I recently read an article in Esquire magazine called ‘The End of Sex,’ that said something that struck me as very true. It said: “If you want endless repetition, see a lot of different people. If you want infinite variety, stay with one.” What happens when you date is you run all your best moves and tell all your best stories — and in a way, that routine is a method for falling in love with yourself over and over.
You can’t do that with a longtime mate because he knows all that old material. With a long relationship, things die then are rekindled, and that shared process of rebirth deepens the love. It’s hard work, though, and a lot of people run at the first sign of trouble. You’re with this person, and suddenly you look like an as***le to them or they look like an as***le to you — it’s unpleasant, but if you can get through it you get closer and you learn a way of loving that’s different from the neurotic love enshrined in movies. It’s warmer and has more padding to it.”
Joni Mitchell

04/29/2023

The relationship between adolescence and “mid-life crisis”…

WE MAY HAVE FORGOTTEN TO HAVE AN ADOLESCENCE

It’s one of the stranger ideas of psychology that we may have forgotten to have an adolescence. At one level, adolescence refers to a particular time of life; at another, it alludes to a set of stages on the path to emotional maturation - and these are what might, beneath the ill-fitting clothes and the awkward hair styles, have failed to unfold (though we may now be 42 or well past 60).

It wasn’t a simple oversight. It’s ultimately a privilege to have an adolescence and the people who gift us the opportunity to have - or not have - one are generally our parents.

An adolescent needs to be able to complain that the world isn’t very nice at all; but how can they if a parent is hugely invested in insisting that it is?

An adolescent needs to be able to show that they are furious about many things; but how can they if the parent is volcanically angry themselves, overly fragile, busy tending to a sick sibling, or constantly exhausted by the demands of work?

An adolescent needs to try to be ‘bad’; but how can they if the parent seems like they would abandon anyone who wasn’t excessively and obviously ‘good’?

An adolescent needs to attempt new challenges and look a fool in the process at first; but how can they if the parent mocks and bullies anything but wholesale expertise?

An adolescent needs to be able to discover their s*xuality and own it; but how can they if a parent is prim and terrified of s*x themselves? Or else if they are seductive and s*xually uncontained?

An adolescent needs to be able to become competent in the world; but how can they if a parent is threatened by their child’s power, either because they fear losing their professional status or their earlier role as a babysitter and carer?

An adolescent needs, in time, to find their way to diplomacy and compromise, they can’t be always a rebel; but how can this authentic-yet-pragmatic new self develop if the parent makes maturity feel deadly or else if they enjoy their child’s rebellion too much because it brings them a compensatory sense of proficiency?

An adolescent needs to feel that they can sometimes obey; but how can they if the parent makes obedience seem akin to surrender and the most punishing kind of defeat?

In other words, though it seems as if adolescents are doing all the work, much of it - when the phase goes well - is being carefully facilitated (consciously or not) by the parents. It is the parents who are allowing anger to take place, who are giving room for s*xuality, who are stepping back in order to let a child question. And then there are parents who box their children in: who cannot allow them to find a tolerable position between conformity and originality; politeness and rebellion; rage and passivity, innocence and debauchery.

Without parental adjustment, the key moves get delayed. Life moves on. University and jobs begin. There are marriages and babies. And then gradually, in middle age, the pressure builds up unbearably. The need for maturation can no longer be denied. Except now, it is a lot more awkward. We expect fifteen year olds to give up on shyness and act with excessive boldness; we’re ready that they might move from s*xual timidity to some all-consuming explorations. It can be more difficult for this to happen safely in the middle 40s or 60s.

What we casually call a mid-life crisis is, in the context of the stages of emotional maturation, rarely that. It’s an attempt to complete some of the work that didn’t get done at a more opportune moment. It’s truly a great privilege - and an immense service to society - to allow someone to have an adolescence when they are, in fact, an adolescent.

For more articles, see: www.theschooloflife.com/articles
Photograph by Helen Van Meen