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Sylvia Corcoran is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker specializing in helping those living with depression, anxiety, issues related to spirituality, survivors of trauma, and those recovering from racism and other forms of oppression. She views therapy relationships as a partnership that helps individuals to rewrite their narrative and live their best life by becoming their most authentic selves.

Sylvia Corcoran LCSW, MCEd

Sylvia Corcoran is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker specializing in helping those living with depression, anxiety, issues related to spirituality, survivors of trauma, and those recovering from racism and other forms of oppression. She views therapy relationships as a partnership that helps individuals to rewrite their narrative and live their best life by becoming their most authentic selves.

What is Substance Abuse?

Addiction and Recovery

Substance abuse describes the use of illegal drugs or the misuse of legal drugs that causes problems with a person’s day-to-day activities, work, relationships, and life in general. More than 20 million people in the U.S. were diagnosed with substance use disorder last year. Understanding Substance Use Disorder Substance use…

Why Addiction Changes How Your Brain Works

Addiction and Recovery

Addiction is a chronic disease that profoundly affects your brain and how it operates. Understanding how addiction and the brain intercept is crucial to recognizing how substance and behavioral addictions hijack your brain.

Understanding and Embracing Integrative Therapies

Therapy Tools

Your mind, body, and spirit are connected. The way you treat each affects the others. That's why integrative therapies work toward healing your whole person. Integrative therapy is a form of psychotherapy that combines therapeutic tools and approaches to fit each individual's needs. The term integrative means multiple methods used…

Everything You Need to Know About Vicodin Addiction

Addiction and Recovery

Vicodin is a common prescription painkiller often used to relieve moderate to severe pain. Being opioid-based, it also has the potential for dependence and addiction. Vicodin addiction and misuse is a growing problem in the U.S. and a significant contributor to the country’s opioid epidemic. This post provides helpful information…

8 Common Questions About Internet Addiction

Addiction and Recovery

You've likely joked about spending too much time online. You may even cringe when you get your weekly screen time report. Who doesn't? But there is a difference between spending more time than you think you should online and internet addiction. When you have an internet addiction, you can't balance…

How to Know If You Need Therapy

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You aren’t feeling quite yourself lately. You can’t seem to pull out of the funk you’re in. It’s challenging to get out of bed in the morning, and you spend a lot of time worrying about things that your analytical mind understands are unlikely to happen. You don’t feel like…

How to Get Started With Therapy

Therapy Tools

Treatment doesn’t need to be intimidating. In this article, Sylvia Corcoran provides six steps to get started with therapy.

Does Therapy Work?

Therapy Tools

About 40 million Americans received therapy in 2019, and we know the number of people seeking help since the COVID-19 pandemic hit has increased. And still, a lot of people leave their therapist’s office after a session still struggling and wondering if therapy actually works.  The answer is yes, therapy…