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Welcome to the blog of All Things New Counseling Services, LLC in Tuscaloosa, Alabama! On this page, we provide you with new information about mental health and updates to the practice. We also share updates about recent events and activities. Read our blog entries below.

All Things New Counseling Services, LLC Updates

Exciting things are happening in our office! Sharmen would like to welcome Savannah Kiesel, MA, ALC. She is available to work with individuals ages 17 and up on a variety of issues as well as accommodating adult clients who prefer late afternoon and early evening appointments.

We hope that this transition will allow us to better serve you and to make the process of seeking therapy an easier one. Do not hesitate to contact our office today. We are always happy to answer any questions you may have about beginning your journey towards healing.

WELCOME BACK UA STUDENTS!!!! We are excited that students are returning to campus for Fall 2022. If you have been in therapy with All Things New Counseling Services, LLC previously, we look forward to seeing you again. If you are new to the college experience please consider us when looking for someone to help you work through personal issues.

As always, we welcome anyone in the community who is need of services and will be accepting new clients until our website states otherwise.

Fall Semester Scheduling

It is that time of year. School has resumed, careers are in full-swing, marriages are busy and fall is finally around the corner. Many of us start looking forward to, or dreading, the holidays and mid-terms. There are always obstacles, loss, grief and relationship or family difficulties to overcome. Perhaps anxiety, depression or addiction is weighing you down. This is a perfect time to book your session to decompress and learn some new coping techniques. I offer morning, afternoon and early evening appointments for your convenience. Call today to begin your journey and let's get started!

The Reality of Counseling

July 31, 2019

Brokeness. That's the world we live in now, isn't it? Addictions, mental illness, sickness, death, divorce, the loss of family, of a career, or innocence. I ran across this poem the other day by a great speaker whom I have had the pleasure of meeting. I wanted to share it with you so that you could get a glimpse into what the lives of others might be like, the courageous clients I see every day, or, if you are like me, you may even recognize yourself. The bottom line is that we just have to love people where they are, whatever that may look like. THAT is my job.

Broken

What if I were broken? Could you still hold me close,

Embrace the jagged edges of the things that hurt the most?

Would you feel you have to fix me, or could you leave me be?

Would you love your dream of who I am more than you love me?

What if I were shattered in a thousand little bits,

Broken, beaten, battered by the molds that didn’t fit?

Could you leave the pieces lying and accept me as I am

Or would you try to reassemble me into what you understand?

What if the broken parts of me never do get healed?

Would you love the thought of wholeness more than the me that’s real?

Could you take these broken pieces and love them separately?

Though scattered, tattered, broken, can you still love me?

What if I were aching and hollowed out inside?

What if I were breaking? What if I had died?

Would you weep for who I really am or for an effigy?

Would you cry me a river? Would you cry at all for me?

What if our broken pieces are the parts that make us whole?

What if touching brokenness is how we touch the soul,

And what if loving brokenness is the only love there is?

To love imperfection—there is no love but this.

So take these jagged edges, and I will take yours, too.

Love me, in my brokenness, just as I love you.

For it is this touching that our hearts need the most.

What if I were broken? Could you still hold me close?

@jcampbellgreen jamescampbell@familyexcellence.net

Vacation Blog Entry

August 4, 2019

***For all of my current and returning clients, I will be out of town on vacation the week of August 19-23.""" If you need to be seen by me before that time, please call me today for hours of availability or to schedule your appointment for the following week. If you have an emergency during this week, please call 911 or go to the local emergency room and I will follow up with you as soon as I return. I will be returning all calls on Monday, August 26th

Out with the Old, In with the New!!!

The holiday season is over, school is about to resume and the pressures of daily life are returning. There are always obstacles, loss, grief and relationship or family difficulties to overcome. Perhaps anxiety, depression or addiction is weighing you down. This is a perfect time to book your session to decompress and learn some new coping techniques.

I offer morning, afternoon and early evening appointments for your convenience. If you are struggling to make sense of things or just feel like talking to someone who cares and can help you to live your best life, please give me a call today.