29/03/2022
With her new book, Unconditional: Learning to Love your Authentic Self, animal-assisted therapist and author Annalisa Smithson, LPC, invites readers to join her on a 21-day journey of compassionate, playful self-discovery.
Readers will relish this timely, easy-to-digest pilgrimage of self-love, which Smithson offers through 21 “snack-sized” chapters that readers can easily digest before breakfast.
As founder of Pottstown-based Unleashed Counseling (formerly named Animal-Assisted Therapy, LLC), a private therapy practice offering mental health services for those experiencing depression, anxiety, addiction, and eating disorders, Smithson has seen the life-changing difference that comes when individuals allow themselves to practice unconditional self-love.
“I know from personal experience, and from my clients, that practicing self-love can feel selfish or pointless at times. But these are your negative thoughts talking, and you’re soon going to learn to tell them to hush. Self-love is profoundly important to your whole-body health. Freeing yourself from stress, overwhelm, depression, and anxiety. Living your best life begins with loving yourself,” reflects Smithson.
The 21-day journey that Smithson provides with Unconditional: Learning to Love your Authentic Self, provides a foundation of habits that will remain with readers long after they turn the final page. Each chapter includes journaling prompts that invite readers to rewrite their personal narrative, embracing self-exploration and healing, as well as a daily act that, as Smithson describes, is a “bold, unequivocal, expression of self-love.”
Unconditional: Learning to Love your Authentic Self is available March 30th online and in select retail locations in and around Pottstown, PA.
About the Author:
Annalisa Smithson, LPC, NCC
https://annalisasmithson.com
Annalisa Smithson is the founder and director of Unleashed Counseling and author of Unconditional: Learning to Love your Authentic Self (2022) and Emotional Support Animals (2021).
Smithson is a board-certified counselor licensed in the state of Pennsylvania, specializing in cognitive behavioral therapy and animal-assisted therapy. She has presented research at mental health conferences around the country, including the American Psychological Association, the Association for Women in Psychology, and the Pennsylvania Counseling Association.
Smithson and therapy-dog Benji reside in Limerick, PA.
About Unleashed Counseling:
https://unleashedcounseling.com
With a team of talented counselors trained in LGBTQ-affirming therapy, Unleashed Counseling offers individual and small group therapy, as well as workshops all of which can incorporate animals, nature, and art into the therapeutic experience to help clients enjoy counseling and overcome stress.
Conveniently located in Pottstown, PA (between Reading and Philadelphia) Unleashed Counseling offers in-person and virtual sessions that combine playful techniques with traditional clinical treatments such as cognitive behavioral, person-centered, and walk and talk therapy, so that clients will see results and achieve their goals.
Annalisa Smithson, LPC, NCC
ANNALISASMITHSON.COM
Annalisa Smithson, LPC, NCC
YOU DESERVE TO LOVE YOURSELF LIKE YOUR DOG LOVES YOU (UNCONDITIONALLY)
