Open Space Counseling, Consulting & Wellness, 5850 Ellsworth Avenue, Suite 200, Pittsburgh, PA (2026)

08/27/2026

We have a few clinicians who have opened up new availability for the first time in a while, as well as a few clinicians who have joined us and are now accepting new clients!

To make the scheduling process easier and faster for folks, we are temporarily including each provider’s current availability in our Get Started form! This allows you to skip a step and identify your preferred day and time from the beginning, rather than waiting for our response with their availability. 🤸🏼‍♀️🤸🏼‍♀️🤸🏼‍♀️

Ready to get started? Click the link in our bio, or head to ⤵️

Www.openspaceccw.com/getstarted

08/19/2026

✨ Check out our clinicians who are currently accepting new clients! ✨

🏢 Sessions available both 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 and 𝗶𝗻-𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 at 🏙 Bakery Square!

➡ Scroll through to see what clinicians currently have openings, and learn more about their specialties.

📅 Ready to 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 or 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝟭𝟱-𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁? ⤵

Head to:
www.openspaceccw.com/getstarted

08/18/2026

✨ Lara is accepting 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀! ✨

And currently has both daytime and 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 availability!

➡ Scroll through to learn more about Lara's sex-informed, sex-positive approach.

📅 Ready to get scheduled? ⤵

Click the link in our bio or head to our Get Started page below:
www.openspaceccw.com/getstarted

07/27/2026

✨ 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗮 and 𝗧𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗮 are now scheduling 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀! ✨

And both have 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 availability!

➡ Scroll through to learn more about Lara and Tamara, including their approaches, specialties, and accepted insurance plans.
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Additionally:

🔹 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗻 is now in-network with Optum/United Healthcare, and has added one in-person day! (Currently has 2 evening spots left!)

🔹 𝗦𝗮𝗺 𝗚. is scheduling a small number of new therapy clients, and has in-person availability.

🔹 𝗝𝘂𝗮𝗻 is accepting new clients, and currently has evening availability. (Juan is also bilingual!)

🔹 𝗦𝗮𝗺 𝗦. has availability for new clients mid-day.

🔹 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗲 had ONE spot open up: Mondays @ 10am (3x/month) - 𝘛𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘳 𝘐𝘯-𝘖𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦.

📅 Ready to get scheduled? ⤵
Click the link in our bio or head to our Get Started page below:
www.openspaceccw.com/getstarted

07/23/2026

The way you talk to yourself matters more than you think it does.

Most of us wouldn't say the things we say to ourselves to anyone we actually cared about.

❌ "You're so stupid."
❌ "Why can't you just get it together."
❌ "Everyone else has this figured out except you."

We don't usually notice this voice because it's been running in the background for so long. It feels like the truth instead of a habit. But that inner dialogue isn't neutral. It's actively shaping your nervous system, your choices, and how much of your life you're willing to show up for.

Here's what harsh self-talk actually does over time:

➡ It keeps your body in a low-grade stress response. Every internal insult registers as a threat, even though the "threat" is you. That means more cortisol, more tension, more days that feel exhausting for no clear reason.

➡ It shrinks your risk tolerance. When your inner voice is waiting to punish you for messing up, you start avoiding anything that might end in a mistake... a new opportunity, a hard conversation, a creative idea. Not because you're not capable. Because the cost of failing feels too high when you know how you'll talk to yourself afterward.

➡ It reinforces shame instead of resolving anything. Guilt says "I did something wrong." Shame says "I am something wrong." Harsh self-talk almost always lands in the second category. And shame doesn't motivate change, it motivates hiding. That's why you can be your own harshest critic and still not improve the thing you're criticizing.

➡ It rewires what you expect from other people. If this is how you talk to yourself, you often unconsciously accept it from others too. It starts to feel familiar instead of harmful.

➡ None of this makes you weak or broken. It makes you human, shaped by whatever taught you that self-criticism equals self-improvement. It doesn't. Self-compassion isn't the soft option. It's actually the one linked to more resilience, more follow-through, and faster recovery after setbacks.

➡ If this inner voice sounds familiar and you're ready to change your relationship with it, we can help. Scroll for clinicians with openings, and click the link in our bio to get started. 🩶

07/15/2026

✨ 𝗦𝗮𝗺 (she/her) has opened her schedule for a small number of 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗽𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀! ✨

🏢 Sam is seeing clients both 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 and 𝗶𝗻-𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 at 🏙 Bakery Square!

➡ Scroll through to learn more about Sam, her approach, and her specialties.

📅 Ready to 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 or 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝟯𝟬-𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁? ⤵

Head to:
www.openspaceccw.com/getstarted

07/13/2026

Social anxiety gets misunderstood a lot. People hear it and picture someone who just doesn't like parties. That's not it.

Social anxiety is a 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲. It's your nervous system reading connection as danger. The racing heart before you walk into a room. Replaying a conversation for three days after. The exhaustion of performing "normal" for two hours and then needing to disappear.

And for neurodivergent folks, it's layered on top of sensory overwhelm, masking, and years of being told you're "too much" or "not reading the room right." What looks like social anxiety is sometimes a nervous system managing noise, lighting, small talk, and what's expected of you, all at once.

The goal isn't to change to fit into environments that weren't built for you. It's to understand your own nervous system well enough to work 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝘁, not against it, to whatever extent feels right for you.

A few things worth knowing:

✨ 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺. It's the story you carry in: I'll say the wrong thing. They'll see through me. For neurodivergent people, that story usually has a longer history behind it.

✨ 𝗧𝗿𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 "𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗺 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻" 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀. It keeps your focus on the anxiety. Instead, give your brain a task: find your seat, get a drink, say one sentence to one person.

✨ 𝗡𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀. Silently saying "this is anxiety, not danger" can help interrupt the spiral.

✨ 𝗬𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹𝘀. Most people are focused on themselves, not you.

✨ 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁. If you're monitoring your face, tone, and eye contact all at once, some of that "anxiety" is masking fatigue. Sometimes you just need less performance and more permission to be as social as feels sustainable.

You're not broken, you're not "too sensitive," and you're not the only one sitting in the parking lot for 20 minutes before you can make yourself walk in. You just need tools that work with your actual nervous system.

𝗦𝘄𝗶𝗽𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀. 💛

07/10/2026

Alone time is chosen. Isolation usually isn't. That's the whole distinction, and it's why isolation is so hard to catch. Nobody decides to become isolated. It happens 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆, through circumstances, exhaustion, grief, life changes, and it builds quietly enough that by the time you notice, it already feels normal.

Alone time has a shape. You know when it starts and when it ends. Isolation doesn't have edges or parameters. It just widens and lengthens.

Alone time means tonight you wanted space. Isolation means the invitations slowed down, or the energy to accept them did, and neither one is a character flaw. It's usually just what happens when life gets heavy and connection becomes one more thing that takes effort you don't have.

Here's what makes it hard to see from the inside: 𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳. It looks like being deeply tired. It looks like "I'll reach out next week." It feels like a stretch of time that just doesn't end.

And if you've always been someone who's comfortable alone, that can actually make it harder to notice. Not because something is wrong with you, but because solitude has never been a red flag for you before. So the shift doesn't feel like a shift. 𝗜𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆.

The way to tell the difference isn't by looking at how much time you're spending by yourself. It's by noticing what that time is 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 to you:

Alone time tends to leave you a little more able to face your life. Isolation tends to leave you a little more convinced that facing it alone is just easier.

Alone time still carries the quiet assumption that someone would ask where you've been. Isolation carries the quiet assumption that maybe they wouldn't, and that thought isn't a truth. It's just what isolation sounds like when it talks.

If you read this and something landed, don't sit with it alone. 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆. Not because it's urgent. Because it's overdue, and that one seemingly small connection can have a much bigger impact than you might think.

07/08/2026

Most people don't collapse into a life that feels hollow. They ease into it, one deadline, one obligation, one "I'll deal with that later" at a time.

But somewhere between managing your life and living it, something gets lost. The joy gets smaller. The wins stop registering. You start measuring your days by what got done instead of how it felt to be in them.

You can hit every milestone. Build the career. Check every box on the list you didn't even know you were following. And still wake up one day wondering when you started watching your own life instead of being in it.

👉 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹. It's the minimum.

You can be fully alive and still be completely disconnected from your own life. Those aren't contradictions. They're both true for a lot of high-achieving people who are excellent at looking like they have it together.

And that's often what happens when you spend years in survival mode and forget to switch gears once survival isn't the only option anymore.

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. You just have to be honest with yourself that "fine" isn't the same as "full." 🤍

If you're done running on autopilot, 𝘄𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂. Head to our link in bio or our Get Started page below to book your first session. ⤵

www.openspaceccw.com/getstarted

06/30/2026

✨ 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐧 (she/her) is 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 new clients! ✨

𝐼𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦!

➡ Scroll through to learn more about Devon, her approach, and her specialties.

📋 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝:
Aetna, Anthem, BCBS PPO Plans, Capital Blue Cross, Geisinger, Highmark, and Independence Blue Cross (IBX) PPO Plans. (Optum/UHC and UPMC are in progress!)

📅 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐧'𝐬 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐞? ⤵
➡ Click the link in our bio or head to:
www.openspaceccw.com/getstarted

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