Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor (LGPC)

LGPC is Maryland’s graduate-level counseling license, issued by the Maryland Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists. It allows supervised practice while completing post-degree requirements for the LCPC. This page outlines education, supervision, and the application packet.

Blog posts related to Mental Well Being

For many people in the first stretch of their career, stress builds from several directions at once. Heavy workloads, tight deadlines, unclear expectations, difficult manager relationships, and the quiet pressure to always be available can all layer on top of each other. Hybrid and remote work can help in some ways, but they can also blur the line between work time and rest.
If a pattern can be passed down, it can also be put down. Here's what healing generational trauma actually looks like — naming the pattern, calming the body, rewriting the story, setting boundaries, and grieving what you didn't get — and how to break the cycle without blaming your parents.
Inherited trauma rarely announces itself. It shows up in your body, your relationships, and your habits — wearing the costume of “that's just how I am.” Here's how generational trauma surfaces as hypervigilance, repeating relationship patterns, addiction, control, and people-pleasing, and why recognizing it is the turning point.
“What's your attachment style?” became a third-date question, but the dating-app version gets one thing backwards. Your attachment style isn't a fixed personality trait you were born with — it's a pattern you learned, and often one you inherited. Here's where it really comes from and how it can change.
“Generational trauma” gets thrown around on TikTok for everything, but the real thing is far more useful than the watered-down version. Here's what intergenerational trauma actually is, how it passes between generations, the signs you might be carrying it, and why you can be the one it stops with.
Late-night doom scrolling isn’t really about the phone—it’s about exhaustion, unfinished tasks, and an ADHD brain searching for relief. When the day feels overwhelming and nothing feels complete, endless scrolling offers easy stimulation without expectations. This post explores why burnout and ADHD make nighttime scrolling so common, and how small daytime shifts—like visible task completion and planned endings—can help your brain finally power down instead of staying stuck in the scroll.