A panic attack can feel terrifying: your heart races, your breathing speeds up, your hands tremble, and your brain screams that something is terribly wrong. The truth we want you to know at Stenzel Clinical is this: panic [...]
At Stenzel Clinical, we help couples move from repeating fights and quiet distance to steady habits that make closeness possible again. Over years of working with couples in Wheaton, Naperville, Geneva, and online, we’ve found five counseling exercises [...]
Remote meetings, open-office chatter, blurred home boundaries, many of us have traded one set of stressors for another. Video-call exhaustion (often called “Zoom fatigue”) and the slow burnout that builds in office settings can feel like opposite problems, [...]
Every single day we make hundreds sometimes thousands of tiny choices. What to eat for breakfast, which shirt to wear, whether to answer an email now or later. It doesn’t feel dramatic at first, but each decision uses [...]
Marriage is not magic, its work, practice, and respect. Over the years working with couples, we’ve seen the same patterns again and again: small habits that build closeness, and small habits that slowly push partners apart. Good communication isn’t [...]
At Stenzel Clinical, we see trauma in many forms car accidents, loss, abuse, medical emergencies, or long periods of stress. Trauma can stay with you long after the event is over. That’s where EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) [...]