Vanessa Power, PsyD, LCSW LLC

Vanessa Power, PsyD, LCSW LLC I'm a licensed therapist of 19 yrs, helping adults navigate life changes, trauma, & relationships. You’re not broken—you’re responding.

Let’s make sense of it—together. Boy mom 🐾 Cat lover 🎖 Veteran
📍Licensed in FL, IN, KY, LA, MD, MO, NC, TN, TX, WA

02/26/2026

IYKYK 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

These aren’t just psychology insights — they’re reminders of how growth actually happens.Your habits shape who you becom...
02/24/2026

These aren’t just psychology insights — they’re reminders of how growth actually happens.

Your habits shape who you become.

What you’re exposed to matters.

Struggle doesn’t mean you’re failing — it means you’re learning.

Small, intentional choices add up over time. Be gentle with yourself as you grow. 🤍

02/24/2026

Weekend recap is a little late this week. It feels like we packed so much into the weekend and this mama is tired! Here’s to all of us out there wearing so many different hats and continuing to show up for ourselves, our kids, and our clients!

If this slide resonates, it’s probably because your body has been asking for something more than “just a break”.Burnout ...
02/20/2026

If this slide resonates, it’s probably because your body has been asking for something more than “just a break”.

Burnout recovery isn’t about doing nothing — it’s about learning how to feel calm in your body, easing the pressure to be perfect, and allowing rest to be something that actually restores.

You don’t have to rush it.

You don’t have to do it alone.

02/17/2026

Chinese New Year begins on February 17, 2026. This is the year of the Fire Horse. It starts on February 17th and ends on February 5, 2027. This happens once every 60 years! The last year of the Fire Horse was in 1966 and the next year of the Fire Horse won’t be until 2086!
This is important because this year is known to bring energetic and transformative change. It embodies boldness, ambition, and a strong drive for progress in one’s endeavors.
Its combination of the 🐴 (strength, freedom) and 🔥(passion, intensity) allows for the opportunity to take risks, chase goals, and make important decisions.

This year is one of new beginnings, fresh starts, clean slates. This is not a year of hesitation. This is a year of courage, movement, and momentum. The Snake showed you the truth. The Fire Horse asks you to live it. To trust yourself. To choose freedom over familiarity. To stop waiting, and take action. This is the year you embody what you learned. Act on what you know and choose yourself. This is about using your strength to run unapologetically towards what is meant for you. You’re starting now from a place of wisdom. You’re lighter, clearer, aligned. The shedding is done and the path is open.

Now, we run.

Carl Jung was a genius and a pioneer in the field of psychoanalysis. He said about life, it begins at 40; the first 40 y...
02/13/2026

Carl Jung was a genius and a pioneer in the field of psychoanalysis.
He said about life, it begins at 40; the first 40 years are just research (no but seriously...).

He also was among the first to speak openly about loneliness. The quote I am sharing is basically saying: loneliness doesn’t necessarily come from being alone. You can be in a room full of people but if you can’t be your true self, it makes perfect sense to feel lonely.

Moral of the story: find your people, your village, your community - find folks who you can share your thoughts, feelings, and experiences with (and maybe be a little silly together).

Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤

02/12/2026

you light up every room you’re in. 💜 Great coaching per the usual, Friend.

02/10/2026

It’s normal for conflict to feel scary. That’s the price of connection.
Avoidance is a defensive mechanism that is protective. It may have been what you needed to do in the past. Now, it may be what stands between you and a deeper connection in your intimate relationship.

02/09/2026

Triggers and stressors both cause negative emotional reactions but their origin points are different. Stressors are common, everyday pressures (traffic, slow moving lines at stores). Triggers are personal, trauma-related events (certain smells, places where a painful occurred) that cause intense, involuntary psychological and physiological responses.

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