Understanding Separation Anxiety: Signs, Symptoms, and Support

Understanding Separation Anxiety: Signs, Symptoms, and Support

Separation anxiety can turn everyday goodbyes into overwhelming challenges for children and families. At Counseling Corner, our experienced child therapists specialize in compassionate, evidence-based treatments—including CBT, play therapy, and family counseling—to help children build resilience and confidence during transitions. Whether anxiety has appeared suddenly or grown over time, we're here to help restore calm, courage, and connection. Serving Orlando and all of Florida in person and online since 1998.

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A Guide to Preventing Childhood Obesity

A Guide to Preventing Childhood Obesity

Childhood obesity is more than a weight issue—it’s an emotional, behavioral, and family-wide challenge. At The Counseling Corner, we empower parents with practical tools, expert strategies, and compassionate therapy to help children thrive physically and emotionally. From nutrition and movement to sleep, stress, and family routines, our guide supports real change—without shame. Whether your child struggles with emotional eating, low confidence, or unhealthy habits, our Orlando-based therapists are here to help your family grow stronger, together.

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Orlando Divorce Counseling for Children, Teens & Adults

Orlando Divorce Counseling for Children, Teens & Adults

Divorce can shake the emotional foundation of children, teens, and adults alike. At The Counseling Corner, we offer trauma-informed divorce counseling for every stage of the journey—from breaking the news to rebuilding confidence and emotional safety. Whether your family is navigating grief, identity loss, co-parenting tension, or behavioral changes in children, our licensed Orlando therapists provide compassionate, proven care through play therapy, talk therapy, CBT, mediation, and family counseling. Reclaim peace, rebuild resilience, and move forward with clarity and strength—together or individually.

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School Anxiety, Academic Struggles and School Refusal

School Anxiety, Academic Struggles and School Refusal

When school becomes a source of panic, tears, or emotional shutdown, your child may be dealing with more than just nerves. At The Counseling Corner, we specialize in helping children and teens overcome school anxiety, refusal, learning struggles, peer challenges, and emotional overwhelm. Through play therapy, CBT, family support, and school collaboration, we help students rebuild confidence, regulate emotions, and reconnect with the joy of learning—because every child deserves to feel safe, capable, and connected in the classroom and beyond.

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Adoptive Family Counseling: Support, Identity, and Hope

Adoptive Family Counseling: Support, Identity, and Hope

Adoption is a beautiful journey—but it comes with questions, emotions, and unique challenges. At The Counseling Corner, our adoption-competent therapists help children, teens, and parents navigate identity, attachment, grief, and connection. Whether you're wondering how to talk about adoption, supporting a child with trauma, or facing emotional struggles in the teen years, we offer compassionate, research-based counseling to help your family grow with confidence and clarity. You're not alone—we're here every step of the way.

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Children and Teen Stealing: Counseling and Parental Support

Children and Teen Stealing: Counseling and Parental Support

When a child or teen steals, it’s easy to panic—but the truth is, this behavior often signals an unmet emotional need, not a character flaw. Learn why kids steal, how to respond with compassion and clarity, and when to seek professional help. Our Orlando-based therapists are here to support you with expert insight and family-centered care.

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Chronic Medical Illness and Children

Chronic Medical Illness and Children

When a child is diagnosed with a chronic illness, it impacts more than just their physical health—it affects their confidence, friendships, school life, and emotional wellbeing. At The Counseling Corner, our licensed therapists provide compassionate therapy and coaching to help children, teens, and families build resilience, reduce stress, and find healing—emotionally and mentally. Whether your child is struggling with isolation, fear of treatment, or anxiety about the future, we’re here to walk with you every step of the way.

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Blended Family help for Parents

Blended Family help for Parents

Blending families is a journey that comes with emotional, structural, and relational challenges—but also deep potential for healing, love, and connection. This comprehensive guide explores loyalty conflicts, grief, discipline struggles, and the slow process of bonding, offering support for parents, teens, and stepparents. Backed by expert insights and proven strategies, families will find encouragement, clarity, and tools to thrive together. Learn how The Counseling Corner helps blended families build lasting unity through therapy, coaching, and guidance—both online and in-person.

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Self-Injury Help for Parents

Self-Injury Help for Parents

Self-injury—often misunderstood and hidden—affects teens and adults alike. This compassionate guide from Counseling Corner explores why people self-harm, how to recognize the signs, and what evidence-based treatments help promote healing. With insights for families, practical tools, and therapy options like DBT and somatic experiencing, this article lights a path toward hope and recovery

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Relocations, Moves, and Children

Relocations, Moves, and Children

Relocation can be one of the most emotionally complex changes a child faces—especially when it's tied to grief, divorce, or major life upheaval. At The Counseling Corner, we help families navigate these transitions with compassion and evidence-based tools. Whether you're moving across town or across the globe, our team supports your child in processing change, maintaining connection, and building resilience. From cultural adjustment to post-divorce transitions, we're here to help your family grow stronger—wherever life takes you.

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Your Child and Divorce

Your Child and Divorce

Divorce can feel like a tidal wave in a child’s life—sweeping away their sense of security and understanding. At The Counseling Corner, we offer compassionate, child-centered counseling to help kids and teens make sense of big changes, manage difficult emotions, and stay connected to both parents. We guide families through healing with age-appropriate therapy, emotional safety, and tools for expression. Because your child’s emotional future matters—let’s help them navigate it with care.

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Forgiveness and Reconciliation for Kids

Forgiveness and Reconciliation for Kids

Families don't just carry pain—they often carry it silently. At The Counseling Corner, we help parents and children confront the emotional weight of past hurts and begin a path toward true forgiveness, healing, and—when safe—reconciliation. Whether you’re struggling with guilt, resentment, broken trust, or deep family rifts, our therapists provide trauma-informed guidance rooted in proven models. Through counseling, families can learn to let go of bitterness, restore emotional bonds, and model compassion that empowers the next generation. Forgiveness is hard, but it’s also transformative—and it’s possible

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Balance Structure and Freedom

Balance Structure and Freedom

Balanced parenting isn’t about perfection—it’s about being the flexible yet firm guide your child needs. At The Counseling Corner, we help Orlando parents blend emotional warmth with clear boundaries to raise confident, resilient children. Whether you're navigating toddler tantrums, co-parenting after divorce, or raising teens, our expert support equips you with practical tools and a personalized approach rooted in compassion and research. It’s time to ditch extremes and find the palm tree balance your family needs.

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Safe Harbor in the Storm

Safe Harbor in the Storm

Your child doesn’t need perfect seas—they need you to be their safe harbor. At The Counseling Corner, we help Orlando parents build emotional mastery, resilience, and calm under pressure so you can be the steady anchor your child runs to in life’s hardest moments. With expert parent coaching and therapy, we equip you to raise resilient, emotionally grounded kids—not by shielding them from storms, but by modeling how to stand strong within them. Safe harbor parenting isn’t about perfection—it’s about being present, prepared, and powerful in love.

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Choosing Grace Over Guilt: A Counseling Guide to Parenting

 Choosing Grace Over Guilt: A Counseling Guide to Parenting

Are you parenting from guilt or grace? At The Counseling Corner, we help Orlando families shift from harsh, perfection-driven patterns or over-permissiveness to grace-filled parenting rooted in connection, boundaries, and healing. Through parent coaching and family therapy, we guide you to raise resilient, confident children—not to earn love, but because they know they are already loved. When you parent from grace, you’re not controlling your child—you’re leading with love, courage, and purpose.

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Healing Your Own Wounds

Healing Your Own Wounds

Unhealed wounds don’t disappear—they echo through our parenting. At The Counseling Corner, we guide Orlando parents in facing childhood trauma, grief, and emotional triggers with courage and compassion. Like the bison who runs toward the storm, healing is an act of strength that transforms your family legacy. Through trauma-informed therapy and parent coaching, we help you break cycles, repair relationships, and build a home rooted in emotional clarity, connection, and resilience.

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