The 4 M’s of Mental Health: A Neuroscience-Backed Framework for Wellbeing When people think about mental health, they often search for a single breakthrough—a new insight, a medication, or a mindset shift that changes everything. But research in neuroscience and positive psychology points to something more sustainable: mental health is built through daily practices that […]
If you’ve ever struggled with cravings, impulses, or unhealthy habits, you know how overwhelming urges can feel. Whether it’s the urge to drink, check your phone, overeat, or fall back into an old pattern, those moments can seem almost impossible to resist. But there’s good news: your urges are not commands. With the right tools, […]
By Randy Moraitis, MA, CIP, BCPC How To Be Happy Are you happy? Are you waiting for happiness to find you? Research shows that winning the lottery won’t help, and despite what fairy tales depict, happiness does not appear magically. Happiness is not something that happens to you but it is something that you can […]
Over the years I have had the opportunity to do marriage counseling and coaching with hundreds of couples in a variety of settings. Each couple was unique in their own way, but often times there was a common issue among the couples. That issue had to do with how the couples communicated with each other. […]
By Randy Moraitis, MA, CIP, BCPC Over the past week multiple news agencies published stories about a new trend of veterans committing suicide on VA hospital campuses after receiving inadequate care from individual VA facilities. Nineteen suicides have occurred on VA campuses from October 2017 to November 2018 ― seven of them in parking lots, according to data the […]
By Randy Moraitis, MA, CIP, BCPC Recently I posted the pic above on my Instagram page with the ingredients I put in my morning smoothie. I have this smoothie everyday after working out. It gives me the energy and focus I need to start the day strong! I’m a big believer that good food equals […]
By Randy Moraitis, MA, CIP, BCPC I love that I get to do a lot of relationship counseling and coaching as part of my practice. As you may have experienced, when we have conflict in our most important relationships, it can really be hard to focus on anything else until we resolve that conflict. Years […]
By Randy Moraitis, MA, CIP, BCPC I love helping people have breakthroughs in whatever areas may be holding them back in life! Frequently, I get to work with clients affected by anxiety and depression–both of which are much more common than most people are aware. When someone is struggling with anxiety and/or depression (which […]
By Randy Moraitis, MA, CIP, BCPC I recently attended a very interesting training on Pharmacogenomics that so impressed me I really felt the need to share what I learned with others in order to help as many people as possible. Pharmacogenomics is the study of how genes affect a person’s response to drugs. This is […]
By Randy Moraitis, MA, CIP, BCPC Do you ever struggle with anger? Maybe when someone cuts you off or fails to use their turn signal in traffic? You are not alone! A quick Google search for anger management groups gets about 6 million listings! I usually have at least several clients in my practice who […]
