Dr. Mark R. Zuccolo, PhD, LMFT
Counseling, psychotherapy, coaching for individual adults and couples, serving Alpharetta, Johns Creek, Milton, Cumming, Buford, Suwanee, Duluth, Sandy Springs, Marietta, Roswell, and surrounding areas. Online via telehealth, serving all of Georgia.
Bellagio Psychotherapeutics
5755 North Point Parkway, Suite 33
Alpharetta, Georgia 30022
(678) 554 5632
appointments@bellagiopsych.com
Navigating the Emotional Landscape of Work: A Comprehensive Report on Investment, Detachment, and Well-being
Emotional investment in work represents a profound psychological connection that extends beyond mere transactional employment. While healthy engagement can significantly enhance motivation, productivity, and overall job satisfaction, an excessive or unhealthy attachment can lead to detrimental consequences.
Seven Reasons To Stay
The most meaningful therapeutic gains often emerge after an initial plateau. It’s not uncommon for people to feel stagnant midway, but research shows that continued engagement beyond early sessions correlates with greater symptom reduction, better functioning, and more stable outcomes.
The latest research on the dangers of marijuana
Health effects of weed laid bare: Marijuana is behind 3 in 10 schizophrenia cases, can be a death sentence in pregnant users.
The Right Emphases Matter
In my practice of counseling and psychotherapy, I keep in mind that my clients and patients are looking for competence, empathy, and genuineness.
A Preliminary Taxonomy of Ideology and Human Nature
Among the leaders of a society-altering ideology-based movement we may find the ideologue by pure vocation (the inspirer), whose mission is philosophizing, strategizing, and proselytizing (convert or attempt to convert someone from one religion, belief, or opinion to another).
About Hysteria
The concept of hysteria, when used colloquially, means an ungovernable emotional excess and refers to a usually temporary state of mind or emotion, and its attending excessive behaviors. In the 1800’s, hysteria was a medical term…
The End of Gender-Affirmative Care in England
The Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) reported that after a “systematic review of evidence,” the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) issued new guidance for treating minors suffering from gender dysphoria.
The Truth About Alcohol
There is little truth in what we are lead to believe about alcohol. The biggest BS is that it is physically and mentally harmless. The kernel of truth that it does “facilitate” coping with life (briefly and ineffectively) is drowned (no pun intended) by the consequences and the aftermath.
What Is a Psychotherapist?
I do agree with Hawthorne’s description and admire his precise choice of words. Intuition is probably the greatest asset a therapist may make use of in assessing a client’s true condition.
About COVID and its impact
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
For those of us who are alive and well during these times, the COVID years will remain in our memories forever. And we may not be out the woods, yet.
A Simple Faith
The Christian faith first appeared in the Middle East (in today’s Israel) and was originally embraced by a small group of Jews inspired by the preaching of Jesus of Nazareth, who came to be known as the Christ (the Anointed), and who revealed himself as the son of God.
What all goes into good decision-making?
The path of avoidance consists of bad thinking and bad behavior such as postponing, procrastinating, looking away, pretending, obfuscating, and generally running away from confronting the issue and making a decision.
The Seven Deadly Emotions
Often, throughout the course of our lives, we start out as Good, then get Worse, and struggle to get Better Again. There are seven basic emotions in adulthood that can be identified as being at the root of the negative progression from good to worse. They all have an antidote, to get better again.
The Age of Digital Social Contagion
We’re living in the Age of Digital Social Contagions. It’s a time where certain illnesses aren’t spread by biological transmission, but by a digital infection that attacks the psychological immune system. Using algorithms that find and exploit our psychological vulnerabilities, we get sicker as Big Tech gets stronger.
Islands In the Storm
Small islands rose from the seas atop extinct volcanoes and now sit, strong and elevated above the waves, impervious to the battering of a storm-tossed sea. These islands are isolated, naturally removed from the fray, and maintain their own ecosystem even as the oceans and mainland churn and convulse
About Power
The wish for power may be second only to the need for love, and the two often go together. In some cases, the need for power is primary. In its benevolent form, power affords us leadership, protection, and security. In its malevolent form it brings domination or abuse.
Fundamentals of Human Nature
The quest for personal safety drives every human being to protecting the self and loved ones from physical harm, such as violence, abuse, health threats; from emotional harm, such as verbal abuse, loss and grief, and other emotional disturbances…
Erikson’s Stages of Human Development
One of the most influential psychoanalysts of the 20th century, Erik Erikson developed the theory that each stage of life is associated with a specific psychological struggle, a struggle that contributes to a major aspect of personality.
About Rejection and the Fear of It
Rejection may be first experienced, then practiced. An insecure or fearful attachment to the family of origin because of poor care, neglect, or abuse may be the cause for the child’s first experience of rejection and the feeling of being unimportant, unwanted, unloved, “wrong” for the place, the situation, the family.
About Marijuana
Pharmaceutical companies, tobacco companies, private for-profit companies are helping market high potency, psychosis-inducing THC products as ‘medical marijuana’ or as a harmless recreational food supplement.
Stages of Family Dynamics
What Makes Us Who We Are?
What Is Normal?