Ott Counseling

Richard Manuel is accepting new clients with immediate availability!

He works mainly with adults offering supportive therapy and trauma therapies. He truly meets his clients where they are and offers insight and support with everything from trauma resolution, relationship challenges, work stress, challenges navigating the current landscape of our world, and coping with depression, anxiety, and more.

Give us a call at 716-586-2230 or email Richard or our office manager, Kate directly to get set up.
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We're back baby!! Another round of Pogressive Counting training coming this Fall. Plenty of time to register, and get early bird pricing and opt for a payment plan!

🎉30 CE’s included🎉

Progressive Counting (PC) is a highly effective trauma resolution method that can be used with children, adolescents, and adults. It is well tolerated, and highly effective in reducing emotional reactivity and behaviors associated with trauma. It will shift your clients from just managing symptoms day to day, to truly healing trauma wounds.

In this training, not only will you learn Progressive Counting, but you will also learn about polyvagal theory, attachment, dissociation, and FLASH technique!

ADDITIONALLY, we offer a discounted rate and shortened training offered to EMDR therapists who were trained by TICTI (Trauma Institute/Child Trauma Institute only).

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions about how this training may be able to assist you in working with your clients.

We look forward to seeing you in the fall!

Sign up here ➡️ https://nicolewolasztherapy.com/progressive-counting/

Every child is unique, as are their parents — their therapy should be, too. Our latest blog breaks down different types of therapy for children in clear, caregiver-friendly language, so you can feel confident choosing the right fit. 💛

Our newest staffer, Mary Gannon, specializes in supporting infants, children, and parents, and her schedule is open for January.

Read more here:

Ott Counseling | Which kind of Therapy Is Right for My Child? Just like there’s no “one perfect therapy” for adults, there isn’t a single right choice for every child. Learn more about child therapy options in our recent blog!

How we feel and the emotions we experience are a central part of our mental health. Conversely how we respond to emotions is critical for our health, mental and physical. While they can perplexing, stubborn, frustrating, annoying, frightening and downright depressing at times, emotions are a fundamental and necessary part of brain functioning. In fact, they are central to being human.

Unfortunately societal beliefs often tells us we shouldn’t have emotions or some emotions are bad. Telling your brain it shouldn’t have emotions is like telling your heart not to beat or your lungs not to breathe, and it doesn’t make your brain very happy.

Emotions don’t always feel nice and can make us want to run away from them. And like any avoidance, short term this seems to work, we feel relieved. But inside your brain is feeling pretty annoyed at trying to hold it all in.

How you respond to your emotions is important. Research shows suppressing, berating and shaming emotions doesn’t help us deal with them at all and just creates more stress and make emotions feel even more difficult.

Naming, validating, expressing and recognising emotions seems to help us process them and help us become friends with them, rather than them having power over us. It seems to soothe those emotions and instead of adding a layer of more stress and difficult feelings, helps us deal with the ones we have.

read more about the science of emotions and how we can help our emotions in my books
📕‘A Toolkit for your Emotions’.
📚 A toolkit for modern life
📖 A toolkit for happiness

Join us for PC training!

Only a week left of early bird pricing!!!

Link in comments for brochure and registration.

This is funny…. But in reality It’s hard to open up but it becomes even harder when you are rejected with a pacifying comment in response to your pleads for help

REMINDER: SPACE IS STILL AVAILABLE FOR PROGRESSIVE COUNTING THIS FALL! :)