Envision Counseling PLLC

01/16/2025

One of my dear friends, colleagues, and fantastic individuals has written a book! As a therapist with over 15 years of experience, she has written a guide that can help you transform your relationships platonically and romantically. This book enables you to connect to yourself and provides a step-by-step process of where to begin! If you want to enhance your communication, emotional intelligence, and self-awareness, this is the book for you! Support Melanie K. Hall Insights Therapeutic Services LLC by purchasing her book!

One of my favorite quotes from her book is: “What you do not control controls you. If steps are not taken to manage your thoughts and emotions, you will continue to experience and express emotional dysregulation with those around you and within yourself.”

Are you ready to unlock the transformative power of effective communication? Backed by practical, proven techniques by Melanie K. Hall, a seasoned licensed clinical professional counselor, offers a fresh approach to building meaningful relationships through clear communication. This guide prov...

09/30/2024

Thanks for sharing!

Celebrate your mental health wins daily; I co-sign this message ♥️

Navigating mental health is a daily practice. Managing health, wellness, finances, decision-making, time management, daily tasks, career, etc can be difficult. Practice recognizing your hero moments daily:
The moments you showed up when it was hard.
The moments you set a boundary.
The moments you didn’t internalize a situation or feedback.
Celebrate you and the growth journey you are on!

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In case you need it, I just want to send a little cheer your way today.

Living with chronic illness and mental health issues is really hard – especially when it’s invisible or other people struggle to understand it. Whether you live alone or don’t have anyone around who will cheer-lead you, please don’t let those achievements of yours go unnoticed.

You are allowed to give yourself a pat on the back and be proud of the fact that you cleaned your room, enforced a boundary, didn’t self harm, ate whatever you wanted, kept emotionally regulated, allowed yourself to rest – or did anything else to help your mental health, happiness and recovery.

And remember, if today wasn’t your day, and you weren’t able to do much, that’s okay too.
Your achievement can be that you’re still here fighting, even though it feels hard right now.

Whether it’s a big win or a small one -
be proud of you.

Stay Strong ❤✨

01/11/2024

Across the nation, rent prices have soared post-pandemic. In my practice, I’ve seen an increase in the number of clients who have been prescribed blood pressure medication, diagnosed with diabetes, & who have experienced excessive migraines. Stress management, sleep hygiene, budgeting, and emotional regulation have been topics to aid in reducing stress levels. Therapy is an investment in self—explore the benefits in your state, city, and region of therapy! Use Psychology Today, Good Therapy, Therapy for Black Girls, & your insurance company to get connected today!

High rent burden can lead to chronic stress, neglected medical care and harmful coping behaviors, which deteriorates tenants' health.

05/29/2023

Thank you for your service and we salute you! 🇺🇸

04/02/2023

Exercise can be an excellent tool to manage stress. It's best used in conjunction with additional coping skills. Living in a perpetual state of fight, flight, freeze
releases cortisol into the body and which adds a heightened level of stress. Reduce stress and extend life in the here and now and later years.

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Experts share techniques for stress reduction, including how you can ease into a regular fitness routine.

02/20/2023

Grief has surrounded us for a long time now. From losses in our families and friendship circles to well-loved celebrities. Grief and loss aren't limited to death. We experience loss of relationships, health, finances, employment, health care, opportunities, pets, and so on. We aren't trained how to grieve in western society but therapy can help you in your grief journey.

Please read an article I contributed to with Essence Magazine.



Please check out an article I participated in with Essence Magazine.

From Rickey Smiley to Regina King, experts share some insight on parental grief, its seven stages, and practices to wade through it.

01/03/2023

Treat yourself like someone you love! Self-compassion and self-love are important components in developing a health self-esteem and identity. How you talk to yourself is key in mood management and quality of life!

Source: J. Mike Fields

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12/07/2022

Trauma can interrupt the core of one’s being and identity formation. Healing and release can help one to reconnect with their body in healthy ways and reconnect with life itself. Therapy is essential in processing what trauma(s) one has experienced in a contained and safe environment. If you haven’t considered therapy, please do, we’re here to help!

As long as our map of the world is based on trauma, abuse, and neglect, we are likely to seek shortcuts to oblivion. Anticipating rejection, ridicule, and deprivation, we are reluctant to try out new options, certain that these will lead to failure.

This lack of experimentation traps survivors in a matrix of fear, isolation, and scarcity where it is impossible to welcome the very experiences that might change their basic worldview.

11/23/2022

Holidays can challenge the new version of yourself to return to old versions of yourself you’ve outgrown. Release those old parts of you and embrace healthy change, vulnerability, continued growth, management of emotions, and the love of self! Take moments to refresh and refocus on your goals during this holiday season ❤️

11/06/2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/well/family/depression-support.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Whether they are coping with seasonal symptoms or chronic depression, here’s how to offer love and understanding while still caring for yourself.

07/17/2022

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/07/15/1111316589/988-suicide-hotline-number

Mental health advocates hope the new hotline will make it easier to get support if you're in crisis or helping someone who is. Here's how it works and what could stand in its way.

04/28/2022

Fear often acts as a protective factor of the body to trigger adaptive responses to harm, pain, anger, and threat. Fear is not a coping skill, not a healthy one, at least. To be less afraid is to cultivate a life you practice reducing stress, engaging in gratitude, releasing emotions pinned in the body, facing fears incrementally, and practicing self-compassion. Practice gaining your life by losing your fear!

04/16/2022

Responding vs. reacting takes practice and intentionality. Managing stress takes building habits and routines that allow you to show up consistently. Holiday weekends are vital times to remember how you CHOOSE to show up. Holidays can stir deep emotions of grief, loss, a celebration of life, rituals, memories, fear, love, gratitude, thankfulness, etc. Respond out of the healthiest versions of yourself. Create space for what you need internally —reflect, write down significant emotions, meditate, pray, practice deep breathing, move your body, light a candle, and above all, choose to respond to yourself and others.