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Learn more about topics that we discuss in the therapy setting. These resources are available to help anyone looking for support, education, encouragement to to explore next steps in their therapy or mental health journey.
Managing Intense Emotions: Building Emotional Resilience with DBT Therapy
DBT therapy, dialectical, behavioral therapy, is an evidence-based therapeutic technique, aimed at assisting individuals in building, emotional regulation, skills, or emotional resiliency
Integrating DBT and EMDR Therapy to Heal Trauma
Combining EMDR therapy and DBT therapy can be a helpful way to target behaviors and thoughts and body sensations and memories affected by trauma.
There’s an App for That!: Guide to mental health apps
In this day and age, most people have a smartphone, so why not use it as a mental health resource? Mental health applications can assist in tracking moods, thoughts, behaviors, and urges.
Classroom-Friendly Coping Tools
Learn specific tools is that are discrete, in compliance with most school rules, and able to equip children and teens with the coping tools that they need For grounding and regulation without causing a scene.
Identifying Abusive Spiritual Environments
Participating in a healthy spiritual community is often a profound and enriching experience for those involved. However, differentiating between a healthy spiritual community and an unhealthy environment is crucial for your well-being and personal growth.
How to Manage Parenting Insecurities
Are parenting insecurities taking the fun out of parenting? You are not alone. Learn strategies to parent with confidence.
Is Anxiety Impacting Your Physical Health?
We know that anxiety is associated with racing thoughts, feelings of overwhelm, and emotional volatility, but have you ever thought about how anxiety may be impacting your physical health as well?
What to do when Someone Shares their Trauma with you
Have you ever been on the receiving end of a trauma disclosure? Trauma is challenging and heartbreaking for both the survivor and those that love and care for them
Can a Pet Help Improve Trauma?
Have you ever considered that animals may be an effective aspect of trauma treatment? Today we are going to explore the research on animals as a tool for the management and treatment of trauma and PTSD symptoms and consider the benefits that animal ownership may have for those who are trauma survivors.
Affirmations for Recovering from Spiritual Abuse
Recovering from an abusive or toxic spiritual environment can be a complex and emotionally painful experience for many reasons. One being, our spiritual environment is a place where we often seek peace, help, goodness, truth, and genuine human connection.
What is Treatment-Resistant Depression?
Take some time to explore what is treatment-resistant depression, and what those who receive this diagnosis of treatment-resistant depression may be able to do in order to work towards better health and wellness and management of the symptoms.
Keeping Calm When Your Child is Anything But
Learning to regulate emotional responses is an important part of child development, which means that some moments that lack emotional regulation will be a part of the growing process. So how can parents tackle some of these moments where their child is overwhelmed without becoming overwhelmed themselves?
Tips for Optimizing Your Living Space to Improve Depression
Has anyone ever told you that your living space, whether it be a home, an apartment, or a garage studio can be a tool for alleviating your depression symptoms? Sounds wild right? Allow me to explain.
Simple Self-Care Tips to Ease Anxiety
When we picture “self-care”, many of us imagine bubble baths, an extravagant day spent doing things that bring us pleasure; however, these methods alone are not always accessible while we may be feeling anxious at work, waking up in the middle of the night with a panic attack, or trying to hold in our tears driving from one appointment to the other.
Parenting Teens and Online Safety
So what are the best ways to parent in a digital age? What are the best strategies for maintaining safety and monitoring behaviors? Should parents snoop or look at records of digital activity without their children know?
Coping with Graduation Anxiety
It’s an exciting time full of celebration, goal completion, and exciting next steps. But this time of transition can also be a time of significant anxiety for graduates.
Can Exercise Improve Anxiety?
Take a look at the research concerning exercise and its impact on anxiety management.
Keeping Work Anxiety in the Workweek
We clock those hours from 8 to 5, Monday through Friday, hoping and waiting for Friday at five o’clock to arrive. We have dreams of a relaxing and fun weekend, but too often, the stress, anxiety, and worries associated with work creep into that precious time off on the weekends. Can you relate?
Overachievers and Anxiety
Have you been labeled an overachiever? Have you ever wondered what might be feeling that drive for perfection and achievement? Did you know that many overachievers are actually fueled by feelings of fear and anxiety?
I’m not Connecting with my Therapist. What do I do?
You make the decision to start therapy. You read through the profiles and find a provider. You make your appointment. You attend your first session, and something just doesn’t seem right. What do you do when you do not feel like you are connecting with your therapist?