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How To Help Lessen Your Child's Anxiety About School
School is back in session. It’s an exciting time for parents and children alike. But, no matter how excited your little one is about school, they might also be anxious.
Grieving A Divorce
With 50% of marriages ending in divorce, divorce has become widespread and commonplace today. As a result, it is often barely acknowledged and the feeling of loss is difficult to identify and process. Many times, children and parents do not fully know what or how they feel following the initial crisis of learning that their parents are divorcing.
So You’re Thinking of Starting Therapy…
Since the devastation that COVID brought to our world, mental health has become a part of our daily conversations. Celebrities and other public figures have come forward with their mental health struggles, validating our own experiences.
Listen for Feelings: An Important Parenting Skill
Making an effort to listen to your child’s feelings will help your child feel loved and understood. It will also help them learn the important skill of managing their own feelings better, which therapists call emotional regulation.
Teenage Depression: Why it Happens & How to Help
As a parent, you've known that the teen years would be challenging, but you didn't realize they would be this difficult. Your sweet, gentle, happy, and friendly child is somehow now a completely different person.
How to Heal From Trauma
Any type of change can be challenging to navigate, but trauma can leave you feeling like darkness is looming over you day after day. The good news is there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Healthy Conflict - Engaging in Productive Discussion With Your Partner
You've probably heard the expression, "You can't have a little sunshine without a little rain" before. This can be used for almost anything in life, especially when it comes to relationships.
How to Approach the Holidays if They Make You Depressed
It's that time of year again. The sun isn't shining as much during the day. You wake up in the morning, and it's dark.
5 Tips to Calm Your Anxious Thoughts at Night
Your eyes dart open, and you sit up in bed. Guess you're not getting that good night's sleep you had hoped for. Here are 5 tips to calm your anxious thoughts at night.
Big Boys Don't Cry: Navigating Masculinity in Therapy
In a society that often equates masculinity with strength, stoicism, and power, it can be difficult for men to express their feelings in a therapeutic setting.
Treating Trauma: A Short guide
Trauma is a serious medical condition that can have life-long effects if not treated properly.
Resensitization: Coming Back to Life after Trauma
Have you ever suffered a traumatic event that left you feeling numb, isolated, and unable to feel joy?
Reasons You May Need Marriage Counseling
One of the major reasons why people seek counseling is to get professional help with handling their intimate relationships.
ADHD: Everything You Need to Know
ADHD is a childhood disorder that is prevalent in the United States with about 1 in every 10 children having the disorder.
What Is Grief Counseling and How Can It Help?
Grief is a heavy, distressing feeling, yet a natural response to losing someone or something you value or love.
Depression: Types, Symptoms, and Treatments
Feeling down from time to time is normal and something everyone experiences, but when feelings of hopelessness, sadness, and despair take hold and just won’t go away, depression could be to blame.
When Is It Time to Get My Child Help for Mental Health Issues?
How can you tell the difference between challenging behaviors and emotions that are a normal part of the growth process and those that could signal something more serious, such as anxiety or depression?