<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Counseling for Resilience]]></title><description><![CDATA[Online counseling can benefit busy professionals or full-time caregivers who lack time during the day to visit a therapist for face-to-face sessions.]]></description><link>https://www.lina-lewis-arevalo-therapist.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 21:50:06 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.lina-lewis-arevalo-therapist.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Treatment for Chronic Pain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chronic pain in back and neck “The pain is not in your head, but the solution is not in your body ”, Nicole Sachs, LCSW After watching helplessly for years as some clients - as well as myself - suffer with increasingly debilitating chronic pain, I was excited to learn of a session being offered at the annual FMHCA conference on this topic. 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You will likely discuss why you’ve decided...]]></description><link>https://www.lina-lewis-arevalo-therapist.com/post/what-should-i-expect-in-my-first-therapy-session</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66c1cc46b3faf98a733b8381</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2024 10:28:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fedec6_748ceee3c5b3413b8cf9f6260c04464e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lina Lewis-Arévalo, LPC</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[IFS Simplified]]></title><description><![CDATA[Internal Family Systems (IFS) provides a way of looking at our Beliefs, Emotions, and Behaviors through the lens of internal Parts.  This...]]></description><link>https://www.lina-lewis-arevalo-therapist.com/post/ifs-simplified</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6397a6c45d14a24214dd70a3</guid><category><![CDATA[Mindfulness]]></category><category><![CDATA[Resilience]]></category><category><![CDATA[Identity]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anxiety & Worry]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2022 22:27:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdzH2YRmv6Y" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Lina Lewis-Arévalo, LPC</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should I go to therapy?  There’s nothing WRONG with me!]]></title><description><![CDATA[American culture teaches us to be strong and independent and to rely on ourselves.  We’re taught that no one respects a person who is...]]></description><link>https://www.lina-lewis-arevalo-therapist.com/post/why-should-i-go-to-counseling-there-s-nothing-wrong-with-me</link><guid isPermaLink="false">62726845dffb49983854574e</guid><category><![CDATA[Online Therapy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Resilience]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2022 11:52:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fedec6_a0146e5f14a84630a683f79a171b10a4~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lina Lewis-Arévalo, LPC</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What’s up with all this Mindfulness talk?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Everywhere you turn these days you hear someone talking about Mindfulness.  It’s become such a buzz word.  I sometimes hear clients groan...]]></description><link>https://www.lina-lewis-arevalo-therapist.com/post/what-s-up-with-all-this-mindfulness-talk</link><guid isPermaLink="false">625c59ca6a8178858ea4a705</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2022 18:19:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fedec6_3edb8d5af8be40939d6238441658fee8~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lina Lewis-Arévalo, LPC</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Refuse to be Ashamed of My Body Anymore]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many years ago, a woman approached me in a public space and called me a Glutton and basically told me that I should be ashamed of myself...]]></description><link>https://www.lina-lewis-arevalo-therapist.com/post/i-refuse-to-be-ashamed-of-my-body-anymore</link><guid isPermaLink="false">606a809a8d2fd70016c1af1d</guid><category><![CDATA[Resilience]]></category><category><![CDATA[Identity]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mindfulness]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2021 03:15:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fedec6_eeb673c69c6941938a004f823e08a915~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lina Lewis-Arévalo, LPC</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How does being White affect clients, especially BIPOC clients?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Counselors must understand what potential barriers exist for our clients at "individual, group, institutional, and societal levels".]]></description><link>https://www.lina-lewis-arevalo-therapist.com/post/exploring-whiteness-as-professional-counselors</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f31606a3316d80018b7a0cd</guid><category><![CDATA[Social Justice]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:41:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fedec6_2831451271bf4b22b591ab24b5a15e50~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lina Lewis-Arévalo, LPC</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Racism. Not... "Just The Way It Is"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wait, you told me you had no experience with trauma! He responded: “I didn’t think of that as trauma. I just thought that’s the way it is”. ]]></description><link>https://www.lina-lewis-arevalo-therapist.com/post/racism-thats-not-just-the-way-it-is</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5ee8c952d4a79c0017692c3b</guid><category><![CDATA[Anxiety & Worry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Social Justice]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2020 13:40:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fedec6_dd92c7a0652449e5b2176f60f6b96846~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lina Lewis-Arévalo, LPC</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waking up to Whiteness in the day of George Floyd]]></title><description><![CDATA[As a little White girl, I watched Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking on television and found him so charismatic.  I was deeply moved...]]></description><link>https://www.lina-lewis-arevalo-therapist.com/post/waking-up-to-whiteness-in-the-day-of-george-floyd</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5edb6da87cfd660017baf6f8</guid><category><![CDATA[Social Justice]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2020 11:49:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fedec6_bab418d051f644458330793c87185e2b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lina Lewis-Arévalo, LPC</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coronavirus - do I need to worry?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The STOP skill can help people who are losing sleep from worrying about the Coronavirus and its impact on our lives.]]></description><link>https://www.lina-lewis-arevalo-therapist.com/post/coronavirus-do-i-need-to-worry</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e72667b8eb8f50017fb540b</guid><category><![CDATA[DBT]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mindfulness]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anxiety & Worry]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:53:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fedec6_990ca15c08cd47fc8d59ef6a24e73ac7~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lina Lewis-Arévalo, LPC</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are Your Secrets Making You Sick?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Secrets are like opportunistic vines in a garden. They wind their way up and around every part of our psyche until they become unavoidable.]]></description><link>https://www.lina-lewis-arevalo-therapist.com/post/are-your-secrets-making-you-sick</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e3237c968679c00176f6bee</guid><category><![CDATA[Resilience]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mindfulness]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 02:00:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fedec6_009245655b86491282df066c0f213f50~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_638,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lina Lewis-Arévalo, LPC</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Post-traumatic growth - We are Not how we have been Treated]]></title><description><![CDATA[post-traumatic growth means we are not defined by what other people have done to us]]></description><link>https://www.lina-lewis-arevalo-therapist.com/post/post-traumatic-growth-we-are-not-how-we-have-been-treated</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e147e80751d71001775a4b6</guid><category><![CDATA[Resilience]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2020 13:04:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fedec6_ae4524a2eb364c04b67be96279701ff1~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_768,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lina Lewis-Arévalo, LPC</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waking Up White]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I was invited to join a group counseling practice, the owner, an African-American psychologist, asked that all her team read the...]]></description><link>https://www.lina-lewis-arevalo-therapist.com/post/waking-up-white</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5de41b689b7d8400170a9038</guid><category><![CDATA[Mindfulness]]></category><category><![CDATA[Identity]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2019 21:17:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fedec6_61bd33ad35534be1b7bb68d0b3258f6b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_864,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lina Lewis-Arévalo, LPC</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you dread the holidays?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Do you dread the holidays? Even in the days of Covid and social-distance or video gatherings, can the thought of seeing your family cause...]]></description><link>https://www.lina-lewis-arevalo-therapist.com/post/do-you-dread-the-holidays</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5db598db2db71d0017f7af49</guid><category><![CDATA[Mindfulness]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2019 13:18:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fedec6_e45b6f13204a49c7b076921ead73d53b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_669,h_696,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lina Lewis-Arévalo, LPC</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad therapy experience left you cold?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bad therapy experience left you cold?  Don't let it prevent you from seeking therapy again.  A Good Fit is important.]]></description><link>https://www.lina-lewis-arevalo-therapist.com/post/had-a-bad-therapy-experience</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5dadb20d2599430017219c51</guid><category><![CDATA[Online Therapy]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:27:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_4b61444f35335233414877~mv2_d_3576_5363_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lina Lewis-Arévalo, LPC</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does your family (know how to) talk to each other?]]></title><description><![CDATA[When was the last time your family sat together and talked and played a game? Do you find yourself wishing your family could connect...]]></description><link>https://www.lina-lewis-arevalo-therapist.com/post/does-your-family-know-how-to-talk-to-each-other</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d93409fdd6f8b00176e268c</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:15:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/160302bd324b4187b67b7f265c3b8f24.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lina Lewis-Arévalo, LPC</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stress may not be bad for your health - it depends on how you interpret it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kelly McGonigal, in her 2019 TED Talk https://www.npr.org/2019/08/02/747384008/kelly-mcgonical-can-we-reframe-the-way-we-think-about-stre...]]></description><link>https://www.lina-lewis-arevalo-therapist.com/post/stress-may-not-be-bad-for-your-health-it-depends-on-how-you-interpret-it</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d900290c70f6b001789ff47</guid><category><![CDATA[Mindfulness]]></category><category><![CDATA[Online Therapy]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2019 01:10:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f4a2eb10b3154a8a8c1bcda2e37e94c0.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lina Lewis-Arévalo, LPC</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negativity and Gratitude]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you find yourself, as I sometimes do, falling into a pattern of negative thinking, I invite you to start a practice of Gratitude in your]]></description><link>https://www.lina-lewis-arevalo-therapist.com/post/negativity-and-gratitude</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d900148ce5692001777395a</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2019 01:01:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fedec6_478698026c964b99ad0d1b186731f684~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lina Lewis-Arévalo, LPC</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is online therapy right for me?]]></title><description><![CDATA[“I’m too busy!” “I can’t find anyone in my area.”  “I’m a caregiver, I can’t leave my kids…patient…parents alone.” “I don’t get home...]]></description><link>https://www.lina-lewis-arevalo-therapist.com/post/why-i-m-not-seeing-a-therapist</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d8cd5d4c7ed5000175b66f7</guid><category><![CDATA[Online Therapy]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:15:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d5d2dc5ecd5a42ee8854ffb2ff0f3132.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lina Lewis-Arévalo, LPC</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is Resilience?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The dictionary defines resilience as: · the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties · the ability of a substance or object to...]]></description><link>https://www.lina-lewis-arevalo-therapist.com/post/what-is-resilience</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d8234e92cf83a00178b69cb</guid><category><![CDATA[Resilience]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2019 13:52:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fedec6_fbeee14840084dc08e3394c8eac40c2b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lina Lewis-Arévalo, LPC</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>