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Supporting Your Child Through Big Emotions
When emotions run high and answers feel far away, your presence matters most. As parents, we all want to make things better for our children—especially when they’re hurting. But emotional moments don’t always ask for solutions. Often, what our kids need most is to...
Let’s Talk Pride
As a cisgender, heterosexual female, I cannot relate to and/or understand what it feels like to grow up in a world where I am not accepted and granted basic human rights because I do not meet expectations to love and live my life in a way that has been outlined for...
Counseling 101: Part Two
In my initial blog about counseling, titled Counseling 101: Questions You Want Answered...But May be Afraid to Ask, I answer various questions, including: What is counseling? Why do people go to counseling? Can I go if I don’t have a problem? How long should I go?...
Family Connection
Today the average family is busier than ever before. There are conference calls, soccer practice, gymnastics, work, school and tons of others. Many families eat dinner on the fly. Breakfast is something popped into the microwave and then run out the door. Electronics...
Why Is Therapy Important?
There could be an entire series of books written about why therapy is important. For the sake of time and interest let’s start with some basics; therapy provides a safe space both physically and emotionally, it helps establish a genuine human connection, it can offer...
Lost But Not Found
People can grieve for many reasons. There can be a loss of a loved one, the loss of a job, the loss of a house, a loss of a city even. All these incidents can cause a person to be traumatized and then gives way to grief. Everyone grieves differently and over...
To Trust or Not To Trust
The first characteristic of a healthy person/relationship is the ability for your partner to trust you and you trust your partner. Trust is a difficult concept to define for individuals. Trust is different for every person. I always encourage individuals to talk to...
Trauma Effects Don’t Just Quit
I am sure you have heard the term post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It is so easily thrown around in the media, television shows and movies. It is hard with all this information in our culture about PTSD to really know what is fact and what is myth. It is helpful...
H.A.L.T. and Think Simple
Irritable? Can’t focus? Yelling? Starting to melt down? They aren’t listening? I don’t know what to do?!? Maybe we need to... When stressed we have a tendency to overthink things and make them complicated. Sometimes it's best to H.A.L.T. and think simple. Ask these...
Talking about Suicide: Truths and Tips for Prevention
Suicide has been much-discussed in 2017, between the controversy of the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why and the trial and conviction of Michelle Carter, who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself. Despite the frequent conversation in the public media, there’s still a...
The “S” Word
Growing up, the word "sex" seemed taboo; my friends and I (should we ever talk about sex in any way) would just refer to it as either "the s-word" OR spell it out; somehow or another, that made it even scarier. I'm not entirely sure when I actually realized what sex...