Puglisi Counseling, LLC

Puglisi Counseling, LLC In-person and Telehealth Mental Health Counseling in Scranton, PA. Offering services including DBT, EMDR, CBT, Anger Management, and more.
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Healing can be happening even on the days you feel like you’re back at square one.You can spend months working on yourse...
08/28/2026

Healing can be happening even on the days you feel like you’re back at square one.

You can spend months working on yourself and still have an old memory hit you hard. Someone says the wrong thing and suddenly you’re right back in that feeling. You can miss a person you know wasn’t good for you. You can need reassurance again, change your mind, or have a week where the coping skills you usually rely on just aren’t cutting it.

That doesn’t cancel your progress. Look at what you do differently now. Maybe you notice what’s happening before it takes over the whole day. You call someone instead of isolating. You catch yourself before sending the text you’ll regret. A bad night stays a bad night instead of becoming a bad month. 🌦️

Sometimes progress is that ordinary. It’s not waking up one morning completely “healed.” It’s handling something a little differently than you used to.

If you’re frustrated because something you thought you worked through keeps coming back, therapy can help you figure out what’s still getting activated and what you need now. 🧭

Puglisi Counseling offers in-person therapy in Scranton and Taylor, with telehealth throughout Pennsylvania.

☎️ 570-766-0772
✉️ [email protected]
🌐 puglisicounseling.com

08/28/2026

That thing that used to wreck your entire weekend? Look at how you handle it now. 🌤️ A year ago, one difficult conversation might have stayed with you until Monday. You replayed it, lost sleep over it, or spent the weekend wondering what you should have said.

Today, it might still bother you, but something is different. You recover faster, recognize when your mind starts spiraling, talk it through instead of holding it in, or get back to your day without letting one moment take over everything.

Progress can be easy to miss when you’re focused on what still hurts. Maybe you speak up sooner now, walk away from situations you once tolerated, ask for help before you’re completely overwhelmed, or catch yourself before one bad hour turns into a bad weekend.

You don’t have to be completely unaffected for your growth to count. Sometimes the clearest sign of progress is realizing, “This still got to me, but it didn’t take me down like it used to.” 🌱

08/28/2026

Ever have a Friday night when everyone else seems to be out living their life, and you’re home missing someone you know you shouldn’t call? 🌙 Maybe the week was harder than you expected, you’re scrolling past pictures of people out together, and suddenly someone you thought you were “over” is taking up a lot of space in your head.

Missing someone doesn’t mean they belong back in your life. You can remember the good parts and still know why the relationship ended. You can feel lonely tonight and still be proud of the boundaries you worked hard to build. Neither feeling means you made the wrong decision.

Before sending the text, give the feeling somewhere else to go. Call the friend who knows the whole story, take a drive with your favorite music, get out for a walk, order something good, or put your phone across the room and watch a movie. Sometimes loneliness needs company, distraction, or simply time to pass. It doesn’t always need action.

Tomorrow may feel completely different than tonight does. Give yourself the chance to find out before reopening a door you already had good reasons to close. 🌙

You’re allowed to say no without turning it into a five-minute explanation.A friend asks you to go out and you’re exhaus...
08/27/2026

You’re allowed to say no without turning it into a five-minute explanation.

A friend asks you to go out and you’re exhausted. Your phone lights up with a work message after hours. Someone asks for a favor and you already know you don’t have the time. You can say, “Not tonight,” “I’ll get back to you tomorrow,” or simply, “That doesn’t work for me.”

For people who are used to saying yes, the hard part often comes afterward. You replay the conversation, wonder if they’re mad, and start drafting another text to soften what you already said. That guilt can make a perfectly reasonable boundary feel like you’ve done something wrong.

Try leaving the explanation out. Be kind, give a clear answer, and let it stand. Someone being disappointed doesn’t automatically mean you were disrespectful. 🌱

Boundaries aren’t about shutting people out. They’re how you stop agreeing to things you don’t have the time, energy, or desire to do, then quietly resenting them later.

If saying no regularly leaves you anxious or guilty, that’s something worth exploring. Puglisi Counseling offers therapy in Scranton and Taylor, with telehealth available throughout Pennsylvania. 🧩

☎️ 570-766-0772
✉️ [email protected]
🌐 puglisicounseling.com

08/27/2026

There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes from agreeing to something and immediately wishing you hadn’t. You hang up the phone or hit send, and there it is: “Why did I say yes to that?”

Sometimes the answer is simple. Saying yes ended the uncomfortable moment faster. You didn’t have to explain yourself, risk disappointing anyone, or sit through that awkward pause after saying no. The discomfort disappeared, but now Saturday afternoon belongs to something you never wanted to do.

🗓️ Before making another commitment today, picture where it actually fits into your life. Not just whether you technically have an open hour. Think about the drive, the preparation, what you already have happening that day, and whether you’ll be resentful when the time comes.

A free spot on your calendar isn’t automatically available to everyone else.

08/27/2026

Before you answer anyone this morning, check your own calendar first. ☕

Not your guilt. Not whether they’ll be disappointed. Your actual calendar.

Do you have the time? Do you have the energy? Do you even want to do it?

A lot of resentment starts with a yes that should have been a no. You agree to the favor, take the extra task, change your plans, and tell yourself it’s easier than disappointing someone. By lunchtime, you’re annoyed at them for something you technically agreed to.

Today, give yourself a middle option: “Let me get back to you.”

That little sentence gives you enough room to decide instead of automatically saying yes.

08/27/2026

A quick question for tonight: What has anxiety talked you out of lately?

Think about the last few weeks rather than the last few hours. Maybe you turned down dinner because you weren’t sure who would be there. Someone else drove because you didn’t want to deal with the highway. You needed something from the store but decided it could wait because the parking lot looked packed.

None of those choices seems particularly important on its own. Put enough of them together, though, and you may notice you’re arranging more of your life around avoiding uncomfortable feelings.

🧭 Try looking at it from the opposite direction. What would you have chosen if anxiety didn’t get a vote?

You don’t have to do that whole thing tomorrow. Maybe you drive part of the route yourself. Stay for the first half hour. Walk into the store, grab one thing, and leave.

The win isn’t feeling completely calm while you do it. It’s getting home afterward and realizing, “I was uncomfortable, but I did it anyway.”

Avoiding something that scares you can feel like relief. That’s exactly why the habit is so hard to break.You cancel the...
08/26/2026

Avoiding something that scares you can feel like relief. That’s exactly why the habit is so hard to break.

You cancel the plans and your anxiety drops. You let the call go to voicemail and feel better. You avoid the highway, skip the crowded store, or put off the conversation you’ve been dreading. For the moment, it works.

But your brain remembers the escape. Instead of learning, “That was uncomfortable, but I handled it,” it learns, “Good thing we got out of there.” The next time, the same situation can feel even harder.

Getting past avoidance usually isn’t about forcing yourself into the scariest possible situation. Start smaller. Drive one exit on the highway. Stay at the gathering for 20 minutes. Make the call instead of rehearsing it all afternoon. Let yourself feel anxious without immediately trying to make the feeling disappear. 🌱

Each experience gives your brain new information: uncomfortable doesn’t always mean dangerous, and anxiety doesn’t have to make the decision for you.

If fear is shrinking your routine, relationships, or the places you feel able to go, therapy can help you work on it at a manageable pace. 🔓 Puglisi Counseling offers in-person therapy in Scranton and Taylor, along with telehealth throughout Pennsylvania.

☎️ 570-766-0772
✉️ [email protected]
🌐 puglisicounseling.com

08/26/2026

You know that thing you’ve been moving from today’s list to tomorrow’s list all week? There’s a decent chance avoiding it has taken more energy than doing it would.

The dentist appointment you need to schedule keeps popping into your head. You see the unopened email every time you check your inbox. You take the longer route because one intersection makes you nervous. Nothing terrible happens when you avoid it, so putting it off feels like a win. For about five minutes.

🗒️ Here’s something to try today: choose one thing you’ve been avoiding and make contact with it. Not “overcome your fear.” Just make contact. Dial the number. Read the email. Look up the directions. Spend five minutes on the paperwork.

Then notice what actually happened, not what anxiety predicted would happen. That difference is important.

08/26/2026

Your life can look completely fine from the outside while you’re quietly struggling to keep up with it.

You can go to work, answer texts, take care of your family, keep appointments, and still feel anxious, overwhelmed, disconnected, or completely drained by the end of the day. You don’t have to wait until you’re falling apart before deciding you could use some support.

If you’ve been carrying more than you want to keep carrying alone, therapy can be a place to finally put some of it down. Puglisi Counseling offers in-person therapy in Scranton and Taylor, with telehealth available throughout Pennsylvania. 💙

☎️ 570-766-0772
✉️ [email protected]
🌐 puglisicounseling.com

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201 Lackawanna Avenue
Scranton, PA
18503

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Tuesday 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 6pm

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