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Setting Goals: A Supportive Path for Follow-Through
Goal setting tips: A new year is approaching, and soon many U.S. adults will be participating in the annual tradition of New Year’s Resolutions. Since 2022, data suggests that many people are now prioritizing their mental health over their physical health when setting...
The Benefits of Art Therapy
Art therapy can be a useful form of treatment for both in-office and individual outpatient therapy via telehealth. Here are a few ways in which art therapy can be helpful: Non-verbal expression: Art therapy can allow you to express your thoughts and emotions without...
Growing In Difficult Spaces
Ready to talk about personal growth? Let's dive in! Sometimes, outside on a walk, it is amazing to watch how things hold on to life. In the alps, for example, as vegetation grows more and more sparse with altitude, the most amazing flowers can be found, holding on...
Grounding, Breath Control and Thought Management
Let's dive into the topic of grounding techniques: Our bodies and our minds are connected. If we feel physically or emotionally unbalanced our nervous system sends us a message; something is not right! For instance, imagine what happens when you are on an unstable...
Safe Online Dating Requires More Than Protecting Against Scammers
Protect your emotional health, create positive and fulfilling online experiences The online social world is as much a part of daily life as IRL (in real life), yet the two experiences are fundamentally different. The cues and strategies to safely and successfully...
Stress and Anxiety: Towards Excitement or Towards Fear? How Counseling Can Help
Anxiety is that pit in your stomach, recurring and unwanted thoughts, or a haunting sense of some unknown but impending danger. Stress is worrying about some clearly identifiable situation right in front of you. Both kinds of worry ramp up our flight/flight/freeze...
Our Youth Are Struggling With Mental Health
Why it is not a phase and what we can do about it It is undisputed that today’s young adults, teens and children are in the midst of a national mental health crisis. Post-COVID, there is evidence that all generations are suffering from stress and poor mental health as...
The Importance of Premarital Counseling
In all that you and your partner do to prepare for your wedding, make sure you also prepare for your life to come—the marriage you will build together. In my work with couples, I see many surprises that could have been avoided had they been discussed prior to getting...
Meaning and Transformation in Betrayal Trauma
When in pain, pain takes over. It is all we can focus on—the pain, its sources and the resulting brokenness. Without perspective, it is all we can see and all we can feel. Betrayal and rejection are this way. Shootings, rape, inequities, organized hate crimes,...
When Darkness Settles In
Darkness is so often thought of in negative terms, but there are different ways to think about the dark and the times when darkness settles in. It is a time of transition, a special time. An opportunity to find something new. A time where we can open ourselves to new...

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