The transition from high school to college is a daunting adventure, filled with anxious anticipation and a healthy dose of newfound freedom. This is a difficult process, but it is often accompanied by safeguards: dorm-mates/roommates, cafeteria...
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The holiday season is here. For many it brings excitement and for others, distress. Maybe you feel a combination of the two. If you’re feeling overwhelmed about how to about how to manage holiday stress, check our top three tips: Plan...
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Self-care. That’s a word that gets tossed around a lot. In a “treat yourself” culture, it’s hard to figure out what self-care is and isn’t. In essence, self-care should be easy to incorporate into daily or weekly practice. The treat yourself...
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Self-compassion is a word we don’t hear often enough. Dr. Kristin Neff is a leading researcher on self-compassion. She explains self-compassion as being kind and understanding towards yourself during difficult times. It allows us to rid ourselves...
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There are a million ways to parent. You’ve probably tweaked your style from how your parents raised you and you probably don’t parent the same way as your brother or the neighbor across the street. Even though everyone does it a little...
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We communicate with our children all day long. Much of the time, the way in which kids learn to communicate develops from interactions and experiences in the home. Communication may be verbal or non-verbal, meaning we are modeling communication...
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Praise and encouragement. We hear these words used synonymously so often that you might think they are the same thing. Both make our kids feel good, right? Interestingly, they are very different! Medical doctor and psychotherapist, Alfred Adler...
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There is no doubt that anxiety can be highly uncomfortable, if not unpleasant. Anxiety is rooted in fear that serves as our body’s alarm system. It is a natural and highly necessary system that responds to potential danger. Fear is triggered when...
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Have you noticed how popular adult coloring books have become? There are entire book sections at at bookstores dedicated to adult coloring, learning calligraphy, and “how to draw.” Creative hobbies seem more popular than ever. As a therapist, I...
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Loving someone with depression can feel overwhelming and frustrating. There may be times when you want your loved one to “just snap out of it!” However, Depression is not a passing bout of sadness, but a clinical mood disorder that is out of the...
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“I don’t know what to do”… This phrase is uttered on a weekly, if not daily basis in my counseling practice. Whether it is in the context of a relationship, a loss, or an opportunity, the pressure to “do the right thing” is at the heart of...
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