Mental Health

Why Do We Keep Looking Back?

Why Do We Keep Looking Back?

December 10, 2025 Nicole Weiss , No comments

We all have that one friend who seems effortlessly decisive, the one who makes choices without hours of agonizing over whether they made the right decision. I’m sure you know the type. I have a friend like that, a real superstar who constantly inspires me. But when I visited her recently, she looked tired. When I asked how she was, she admitted she hadn’t been sleeping well. She’d spent the previous night reflecting on her life choices, especially those she regretted or might do differently, given the chance again.

Nicole C Weiss LCSW

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Discovering Empathy Through Trauma

Discovering Empathy Through Trauma

September 25, 2025 Nicole Weiss , No comments

“Get a grip…. aren’t you over it by now?  ….Smile, things can’t be that bad… What is your problem?”

People navigating trauma often hear words like these from ‘well-meaning’ friends and family. The truth is, unless we’ve experienced some level of trauma ourselves, we may struggle to feel or express empathy.

Nicole C Weiss LCSW

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Why Even Bother Going to a Therapist If You Can Use ChatGPT?

Why Even Bother Going to a Therapist If You Can Use ChatGPT?

August 8, 2025 Nicole Weiss , No comments

It’s a valid question—and one that even I, a therapist, found myself asking recently. After a week of using ChatGPT to untangle a few personal and professional knots, I caught myself wondering: Why bother going to therapy anymore?

Nicole C Weiss LCSW

Nicole WeissWhy Even Bother Going to a Therapist If You Can Use ChatGPT?
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Quietly Overwhelmed

Quietly Overwhelmed

July 28, 2025 Nicole Weiss , , , No comments

You meet every deadline.
You show up prepared.
You’re the one others turn to when things fall apart.

From the outside, you’re thriving. But inside, it’s another story entirely.

At the end of the day, you collapse into bed, not from physical exhaustion, but from the mental marathon you’ve been running since morning. Conversations loop in your head. You replay moments, dissect your words, question your tone. “Was I weird? Did I overshare? Did I say too much?”

This is the experience of high-functioning anxiety.

Nicole C Weiss LCSW

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Begin Again

Begin Again

May 7, 2025 Nicole Weiss , No comments

What to do when you don’t know where to begin

In my experience, people are so overwhelmed with life and its myriad demands they feel they’re just treading water. There’s nothing wrong with that. Treading water gives you time to breathe, but it’s not meant to be a long-term solution. We all know what happens when you tread water for too long ….

Nicole C Weiss LCSW

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“What will you do with your one wild and precious life?” (Mary Oliver)

“What will you do with your one wild and precious life?” (Mary Oliver)

April 14, 2025 Nicole Weiss , , No comments

‘What will you do with your one wild and precious life?’

Taken from ‘The Summer Day’ by poet Mary Oliver, it’s a question I put to my coaching and therapy clients. It’s a question that’s relevant whether they have achieved all they set out to achieve in life or find themselves in a stagnant career and want to pivot.

At some point, we all wake up and wonder if we are living the life we want.

My first step with any client facing this dilemma is to unpack what it really means to them.

Nicole C Weiss LCSW

Nicole Weiss“What will you do with your one wild and precious life?” (Mary Oliver)
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Be More Codependant

Be More Codependant

February 10, 2021 Nicole Weiss , , No comments

There’s a certain type of client who comes to me with a very specific issue they wish to resolve.

Co-dependency.

The image these clients present to the world is a passive one, but that’s far from the truth. Their need to be less dependent is usually linked to just one person or one relationship but what surprises them is my response to their ‘problem’, which goes something like this:

“What I really want is for you to become dependent on way more people”.

This sounds at odds with our individualistic, egocentric culture but let’s take a walk back in time.

Nicole C Weiss LCSW

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