Copeland Ave Counseling LCSW, PLLC

This is so true...

ALERT** ALERT** New Phone Scam! It has been reported that hackers have been able to get into your phone list, use a friends number to try to lure you to save your friend who is in trouble or hurt. If you get a call from a familiar number with a strange voice, DO NOT do what they say. Call your friend.

Traumatized individuals do NOT have this choice, until life provides them with the opportunity to learn new skills which rarely happens without support.

This is a huge problem that needs to be fixed!

"Our body goes on autopilot while we're folding the laundry or we're walking to work, but actually that is when our brain gets really busy. Manoush Zomorodi Watch the full TED Talk here: http://bit.ly/2NRqbqz

New York state needs this as well...

It took me a long time to be able to say out loud that I’m a survivor of sex trafficking. After I had escaped my traffickers at the age of 18, I didn’t know ho...w to begin to process the trauma. In fact, it took me almost 8 years to even begin to seek therapy. I had always dreamt of freedom from the abuse, and when that became my reality, I kind of just thought the pain would end there. Trauma doesn’t work that way though and it was a long road and a dark road to healing, but the one thing I want to say is that there IS healing from the darkness of abuse. For so long that was something I couldn’t bring myself to believe. I felt so much guilt, pain and shame from all that I endured and the idea of healing, truly healing, seemed impossible to me. "When I started to realize that all of the shame and guilt I was carrying around wasn’t mine to bear, I began to see myself in a new light. That shame belonged to my traffickers, my abusers, not me. I began to feel the light spread within and illuminate the darkness that had housed so much pain, and I began to feel that true freedom for the first time. I began to feel that pain lift. "Every day is different. There are good days and there are bad days, but the truth is that you are so much stronger than you know. Your strength is the light within that keeps you fighting. The spark that keeps your heart beating and that voice that you hear that says 'Yes, I can do this. Yes, I can get through this.' You can, you will. Know that there is hope and there is healing, and you are never alone. As survivors we stand, as survivors we #SHINE. " -Emily

...and all the other forms of mental illness. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't real...

As a therapeutic approach to helping people, we ask the questions that often underlie the symptoms that create these coping tools as manifestations

This could have passed 7 years ago if not for NY politics...