Abundant Restoration Counseling Services

09/06/2025

September is National Su***de Awareness Month! If you or someone you know is struggling please understand that you are not a burden. Seeking help is a sign of strength.You deserve help and there are resources available. 💜🩵

Dial 988 24/7 for the Su***de Crisis Hotline.

08/15/2025

Currently on vacation!

08/05/2025

Welcome Back to School, Educators!🍎

As the new school year begins, you often focus on the emotional and mental well-being of your students—rightfully so. Schools are equipped with resources to support them, but let’s pause and ask: Who is supporting the educators❓

Teachers, you are the heart of the classroom. Yet many of you may be carrying unaddressed trauma—whether from your personal past or from the very demands of the profession. How can you show up fully for your students if you haven’t had the space to heal yourself?📎

Teaching is more than a job. It’s emotionally intensive, often stretching well beyond the school day, requiring you to be available to students, parents, and administration. Over time, this can lead to compassion fatigue—leaving you drained with little energy to care for your own needs.
This is where therapy can help.✏️

Therapy offers a space to:
📌Identify and address burnout
📌Establish and maintain healthy boundaries
📌Compartmentalize effectively
📌Develop sustainable self-care practices
📌Process trauma—past and present

You deserve the same care and support that you so generously give to others. This school year, consider making your own mental health a priority. Book your appointment today at: arctherapy@restoringlife.net

Note: Virtual Therapy Only and Alabama Residents Only

07/24/2025

✨ Helping Therapists Build Thriving Private Practices ✨

When I started my own private practice, I quickly learned something important:
👉 Being a great clinician isn’t the only ingredient for success.
👉You also have to figure out business structures, branding, policies, marketing, insurance credentialing, and a hundred other moving pieces, while still trying to focus on your clients.

It can feel overwhelming, and honestly I remember feeling that way too.

That’s why I created Grit Health Solutions to help therapists and mental health providers build or expand their private practices with confidence and clarity.

✅ I guide you through setting up the right foundation for your business.
✅ We work on branding and positioning your practice so it stands out and attracts your ideal clients.
✅ I share marketing strategies, referral-building tools, and systems that actually work.
✅ I help with making the insurance credentialing, paneling, and compliance process easy so you can focus on what you love most, helping people.
✅ And I support you with pricing, scaling, and planning for long-term growth.

You don’t have to figure it all out alone.
Let’s turn your vision into a thriving, sustainable practice that supports both your clients and your own professional goals.

Learn more or schedule a consultation:

www.grithealthsolutions.org

Contact: contact@grithealthsolutions.org
📞 205-201-1521

Your practice. Your vision. Let’s build it together.

07/01/2025

07/01/2025

Are you someone who often says that you ignore emotions and/or situations as a way of dealing with them?

While the brain does protect you from certain memories the body remembers trauma in its own right. While you may think you’re suppressing memories they could actually present through somatic experiences.

Stored tension can create panic attacks and depending on the severity, could even cause your body to shut down.

Working with a mental health professional can teach you how to acknowledge your feelings, filter negativity, ground yourself, and utilize coping skills to reduce stress in the body. This enhances focus, helps improve decision making, and increase resilience.

06/28/2025

Cognitive Distortions are irrational (negative) thinking patterns that impact how an individual perceives a situation (threat). This type of thinking pattern can become more complex (harmful) as time progresses and affects behavioral responses, communication, self-esteem, etc. Cognitive distortions can also led to depression and anxiety.

At ARC, I utilized a combination of evidenced based therapeutic modalities to teach individuals how to reframe these challenging thinking styles and improve their automatic responses to situations.

Contact my office to start your journey to an improved mental health.

Email: arctherapy@restoringlife.net

06/03/2025

CHATgpt is not therapy.

06/03/2025

It’s National Post Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD) Awareness Month!

🧠 Unresolved traumatic events often return as a reaction, not a memory. Traumatic experiences teaches the nervous system to go into survival mode when safety is threatened which can look like fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.

🤯Chronically being in survival mode can cause you to have low self worth, self sabotage, people please, trauma bond, feel hopeless, mismanage relationships, and lack emotional intelligence. (Symptoms include but are not
limited to the aforementioned list)

❤️‍🩹As a trauma informed therapist I understand the importance of feeling safe, being able to trust, the need for validation, how to reconnect the mind & body, empowerment, and the longing to rebuild your life with the appropriate tools. Contact my office today to begin your journey to an abundant lifestyle.

06/02/2025

June is National Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) month! PTSD was recognized as a mental disorder in the 1980s despite trauma always being apart of the human experience. The Greek word trauma means “wound”. It initially referred to ONLY physical injuries before its inclusion of emotional and psychological distress from damaging experiences. Most commonly PTSD is associated with military veterans exposed to combat. However, PTSD encompasses a much larger range of people who more frequently than not, encounter uncomfortable disturbances. Follow along as ARC Counseling Services provides informative guidance on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder!

06/01/2025

Happy Pride month! While the world may not always be a safe space ARC strives to provide a warm & welcoming environment where everyone is celebrated. Love is love. Don’t dim your light for anyone. 💜💙💚💛🧡❤️

05/26/2025

Today ARC Counseling takes a moment to remember those who sacrificed themselves in service. Thank you for your dedication and bravery to afford us with peace and freedom. 🕯️ 🪖