Coping with holiday stress

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The holidays often bring pressure, expectations, family dynamics, financial worry, and emotional exhaustion. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, you’re not alone. Explore practical tools, mindset shifts, and coping strategies to help you stay grounded and supported during the holiday season.

Listening to Support — and to Yourself

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We often think of support as something we receive from others, but true healing begins when we learn to listen inwardly — to our own experiences, emotions, and quiet wisdom. This reflection explores how therapy helps us hear ourselves with compassion and rediscover the strength already within.

Finding Stability

In a world that feels constantly in motion, finding stability can seem out of reach. Therapy offers a space to pause — to steady your footing, breathe deeply, and rediscover balance when life feels uncertain. It’s not about control; it’s about learning how to move with life’s changes while staying anchored within yourself.

Finding Balance: Creating a Healthy Relationship Between Work and Life

Creating a work life balance

In today’s fast-paced world, finding balance between work and personal life often feels like an impossible task. With deadlines, family responsibilities, and endless to-do lists, it’s easy to feel stretched too thin. At Seaside Counseling & Wellness in Mount Pleasant, SC, we help individuals and families develop tools to reclaim balance, reduce stress, and prioritize what truly matters.

Questions, Support or Guidance

Angela Ordyniec, MA/LISW-CP

Clinical Social Worker

Angi was drawn to become a therapist by her desire to walk alongside people as they navigate life’s twists and turns. Her approach is authentic, dynamic, and uplifting, and she never loses sight of each individual’s capacity to persevere, create, and transform.

With 20 years of experience working with individuals from diverse and complex backgrounds in both non-profit and private practice settings, Angi brings a warm, relational style to her work—often sprinkled with humor. She specializes in supporting adults through life transitions, grief and loss, relationship challenges, and symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Angi integrates various therapeutic approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). She is also passionate about the connection between nutrition and mental health, having earned a certificate in Nutrition and Integrative Medicine for Mental Health from Adelphi University.

She embraces working with people from all backgrounds, religions, orientations, cultures, and ideologies. In her free time, Angi enjoys cooking savory meals, relaxing at the beach, reading, connecting with loved ones, and maintaining a balanced self-care routine.