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Mental Health Resources for Central Texas Flood Survivors
Our hearts go out to everyone affected by the recent flooding in Central Texas. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, grieving, or struggling to make sense of it all, please know you’re not alone. At Austin Family Counseling, we have trauma-trained therapists ready and...
10 Conversation Starters to Re-Spark Your Relationship
When your relationship started, you spent more time together. You had conversations that felt exciting. You were learning about each other. You dreamed together about the life you would build. Then, life got busier and more complicated. Stressors changed. Maybe you...
Five Activities to do at Home with Children: Quarantine Edition
As I sit here writing this, I can’t help but to reflect on how much has changed in the past month. The roles we play, our social connection and sense of community, our work, and so much more. Navigating through this time with kids can be hard; they have...
Five Tips For Parents To Lower Their Stress Level
For all of the perks that come with parenthood, there is no doubt that it can be stressful. After all, managing your own life can be challenging enough. So, once you add kids into the mix, there are just so many more things to stress over! You are likely to have a...
Creating Healthy Boundaries
Growing up in collectivistic culture at home, boundaries were not a celebrated tool in my family. They were perceived to be selfish at times - unhelpful to the entire family unit. As I grew older, I came to realize just how important healthy boundaries are - with...
Parental Self-Care – What it is and Why it Matters in Child-Rearing
Child-rearing is a challenge. After all, you want your kids to grow into responsible, respectful adults — and for that to happen, your child will need the best version of you. Anything less and your child-rearing capabilities might be compromised. The question is: How...
Supporting Your Child During Test-Taking Season
With the upcoming STAR tests, AP exams, SATs, ACTs, and more— it’s no secret that school test-taking season is upon us. This time of year can be extremely stressful for the test taker (and the whole family!). Below, we’ll discuss some helpful tips for supporting your...
The Beauty of Hard Feelings
When my grandmother died five years ago, it was the first time in my life I experienced deep, aching grief. The kind of grief that overwhelms you. And all I wanted was for it to go away. Months after she passed, I was talking with a friend about this nagging and...
From the Other Side of the Couch…What it’s Like to be a Therapist
If you were to google the definition of a mental health therapist you would get some variation of this: "a licensed professional who helps people manage and overcome mental and/or emotional disturbances and problems within themselves, their families, and other...
Running…it’s Kind of like Therapy
...but not really. Back in October of last year my friends and I agreed to do a fitness challenge. The intent was for something new and challenging for all of us. We thought it would be a good way to connect, stay in shape and see what each of us was capable of. After...
Resilience: What it is & How to Cultivate it in Your Children and Yourself
Resilience: (n.) “an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change” (Meriam-Webster Dictionary). Being human means living with uncertainty, change, and hardships, and while we can’t protect our children, or ourselves, from these things, we can...