Anxiety

Occasional anxiety is a normal part of life. Many people worry about things such as health, money, or family problems. But anxiety disorders involve more than temporary worry or fear. For people with an anxiety disorder, the anxiety does not go away and can get worse over time. The symptoms can interfere with daily activities such as job performance, schoolwork, and relationships.Some symptoms of anxiety include:

• Feeling restless, wound-up, or on-edge

• Being easily fatigued

• Having difficulty concentrating

• Being irritable

• Having headaches, muscle aches, stomachaches, or unexplained pains

• Difficulty controlling feelings of worry

• Having sleep problems, such as difficulty falling or staying asleep

Depression

Depression is more than just feeling down or having a bad day. When a sad mood lasts for a long time and interferes with normal, everyday functioning, you may be depressed. Some symptoms of depression include:

• Feeling sad or anxious often or all the time

• Not wanting to do activities that used to be fun

• Feeling irritable‚ easily frustrated‚ or restless

• Having trouble falling asleep or staying asleep

• Waking up too early or sleeping too much

• Eating more or less than usual or having no appetite

Relationship Issues

You may be having problems with your interpersonal relationship. This involves anyone in your life including:

• Family/Family

• Spouse/Partner

• Children

• Colleagues/Peers

• Supervisor

Imposter Syndrome

Imposter syndrome, also called perceived fraudulence, involves feelings of self-doubt and personal incompetence that persist despite your education, experience, and accomplishments.

To counter these feelings, you might end up working harder and holding yourself to ever higher standards. This pressure can eventually take a toll on your emotional well-being and your performance.

Conflict Resolution

Conflict Resolution assistance may be on a personal level or in your organization between employees.This the process of ending a dispute and reaching an agreement that satisfies all parties involved. Since conflict is an essential part of being human, effective conflict resolution is not designed to avoid disagreements. It can be an informal or formal process that two or more parties use to find a peaceful solution to their dispute.

Leadership Skills

You may have issues regarding leadership skills at work or in professional settings.

Communication

The ability to communicate effectively with those you lead, your managers, and higher-level executives. Effective communication can help teams become more effective and understand their roles in the organization better.

Delegation

The ability to split, balance, and re-balance workloads so that no team members are overwhelmed, and tasks get completed on schedule.

Decision-making

The ability to be decisive and having the guts to make the right decisions – even in a crisis.

Conflict resolution

The ability to resolve problems before healthy levels of friction can become damaging.

Empathy

The ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. Empathetic leaders are able to build trust and loyalty among their teams.

Adaptability

The ability to adapt to changing circumstances and be flexible in their approach to problem solving.

Relationship Building

The general nature of leadership roles revolves around people. Without understanding the people they are guiding, leaders cannot effectively lead. The ability to forge bonds and establish communities is necessary for an effective leader.

Workplace Stress

Work-related stress is the response people may have when presented with work demands and pressures that are not matched to their knowledge and abilities and which challenge their ability to cope. Stress occurs in a wide range of work circumstances but is often made worse when employees feel they have little support from supervisors and colleagues, as well as little control over work processes. It can also be the harmful physical and emotional responses that can happen when there is a conflict between job demands on the employee and the amount of control an employee has over meeting these demands. In general, the combination of high demands in a job and a low amount of control over the situation can lead to stress.

Racial Trauma

Racial trauma, or race-based traumatic stress (RBTS), refers to the mental and emotional injury caused by encounters with racial bias and ethnic discrimination, racism, and hate crimes. Any individual that has experienced an emotionally painful, sudden, and uncontrollable racist encounter is at risk of suffering from a race-based traumatic stress injury. In the U.S., Black, Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) are most vulnerable due to living under a system of white supremacy. 

Experiences of race-based discrimination can have detrimental psychological impacts on individuals and their wider communities. In some individuals, prolonged incidents of racism can lead to symptoms like those experienced with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This can look like depression, anger, recurring thoughts of the event, physical reactions (e.g. headaches, chest pains, insomnia), hypervigilance, low-self-esteem, and mentally distancing from the traumatic events. Some or all of these symptoms may be present in someone with RBTS and symptoms can look different across different cultural groups. It is important to note that unlike PTSD, RBTS is not considered a mental health disorder. RBTS is a mental injury that can occur as the result of living within a racist system or experiencing events of racism.