What can you do to support someone living with depression?
Depression is not easy. It is complicated and different for each person who struggles with it. Sometimes, I wonder if people really...
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Youth Mental Health Issues: Helping Your Child Experience Success At School
Are you tired of getting those dreaded phone calls from your child’s teacher or principal or school counselor? What has Timmy done now?...
Am I Good Enough? How Far Does the Impact of Cyberbullying Go?
As I was browsing through my Facebook, I noticed a status that was disturbing- but not shocking in anyway. Someone posted: “If a girl is...
Increasing Connection Through Movement
It is also not a secret that many people struggle to spend time with their families. Many parents feel they are not connected to their...
The True Definition of Forgiveness
The first step to understanding forgiveness is learning what it means. Forgiveness is willfully abandoning resentment and related...
How to Prepare For a Smooth Transition Back to School
The following ideas can be adjusted to fit each families’ needs and can help lower the level of stress surrounding the new school year....
Helping Children Cope With Separation and Divorce
Going through a separation or divorce is emotional for both adults and children. Children frequently do not understand the reason or...
What Causes a Panic Attack?
Panic attacks are scary because they typically occur suddenly and without cause. This creates more fear, which just perpetuates the...
Disciplining a Child With Trauma
Each child is unique and so is their trauma story. When testing out new discipline strategies, it is important to remember that there is...
Maximize the Fun in Family Vacations
School’s out, sun’s out. This can only mean one thing: Summer’s here and it’s time to have some fun! Research tells us that having fun is...
Managing Screen Time This Summer
Parents may be concerned with the amount of screen time their child is engaging in with summer upon us and school structure gone....
Bedtime Anxiety : Helping Your Child Sleep Alone
Bedtime Anxiety Allowing your child to sleep in your bed causes problems not only for your child, but also for you. It reinforces the...
Talking to Your Children About Suicide – Why it’s Important
PSA: It is PAST time to be having conversations about suicide with our children! According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, we...
Playing the Rivalry Game
Sibling rivalry and peer rivalry are part of life. As human beings, it is natural to want to know where your child ranks in comparison to...
Monitoring Your Kids Phone
Monitoring Your Kids Phone I’m sure it’s difficult to be a parent. You do your best to enforce rules and raise respectful kids, just to...
Effective Parenting in a Changing World
Parenting is the most challenging job there is. No debates necessary. The stakes are high. Effective parents set out to rear productive,...
More Love: Parents and Poop
What’s really happening in the brains of new parents? When my husband and I found out we were pregnant, we were showered with...
More Love: Adoptive Parents
When I first started this blog post I had a pretty straightforward idea of what it would look like. I was going to describe adoption as...
Feelings vs Thoughts
Have you ever wondered why it is so difficult to have a logical thought when you get angry? It’s almost like your brain is hijacked, and...
Client Questions, Part 2
As promised, here is the second installment of questions you wish you could ask you therapist, but may be afraid to. Let’s jump right in:...
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