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Co-Parenting Peacefully

Parenting is a complex challenge. It can be hard to navigate school schedules, daily activities, providing healthy meals, help with...

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Parenting

Raising the Perfect Baby: Discussing the Postpartum Stress We Cause Ourselves

For those of you who don’t know me, I gave birth to my first baby last October, which has crazily been almost a year ago already. This...

Raising the Perfect Baby: Discussing the Postpartum Stress We Cause Ourselves

Rebekah McKinney

Childrens Counseling

Why Connection is Vital to Kids AND Parents

Parenting is hard. Exhausting. Confusing. Exasperating. Lonely. Even with all those adjectives, that’s an incredible understatement. I...

Why Connection is Vital to Kids AND Parents

Barbara Johns

Parenting

Making the switch from traditional to conscious parenting

Making the switch from traditional parenting to conscious or positive parenting is a transformative experience for both parents and...

Making the switch from traditional to conscious parenting

Barbara Johns

Childrens Counseling

The Importance of Teaching Children About Emotions

Our society focuses so much on behaviors that feelings tend to be mostly neglected. Think of all of the things you’ve talked to your...

The Importance of Teaching Children About Emotions

Barbara Johns

Play Therapy

Holiday Overwhelm: Tantrums and Challenging Behaviors

For most children the end of the year is usually a time of great excitement and joy, lots of gifts and treats, visits with extended...

Holiday Overwhelm: Tantrums and Challenging Behaviors

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Family

Your kids are having a hard time, not giving you a hard time

Have you ever heard someone say “My child is giving me such a hard time”? Or even better, has one of your own parents ever told you that...

Your kids are having a hard time, not giving you a hard time

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Childrens Counseling

Help Yourself Help Your Child: How to Bridge the Developing Brain

Have you ever found yourself wondering why you responded to a situation the way you did? Yes? Me too. I would even argue that I do it...

Help Yourself Help Your Child: How to Bridge the Developing Brain

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Family

Importance of the Family

Our families are one of the most important social institutions in our lives. Researchers have observed that in all the societies they...

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Childrens Counseling

When your child is struggling try to slow. it. down.

Consider the following scenarios. You are trying to get out the door in the morning, already running ten minutes late, and your...

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Parenting

An Ode to Playfulness

I saw the lava on the floor, bubbling and hurling its molting hot liquid from the couch to the coffee table. I could not let it touch me....

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Parenting

Balancing Control with Support: Why “Authoritative” Parenting is Ideal

If you are a parent, you undoubtedly have heard your fair share of parenting advice (whether solicited or unsolicited). Unfortunately,...

Balancing Control with Support: Why “Authoritative” Parenting is Ideal

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Childrens Counseling

Is my kid getting worse? : Stages in Play Therapy

I totally empathize. You noticed a while ago that your kid has been really struggling with some things, so you decided to start therapy...

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Childrens Counseling

Parenting a Chronically Ill Child

Honest Communication In order for a child to understand what is happening, it’s important to be upfront and honest about their condition...

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Mental Health

The Struggle Is Real: Navigating the Unknown as the School Year Approaches

As the mother of four young children, my husband and I have spent a lot of time lately considering our options, attempting to arrive at a...

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Mental Health

Overcoming the Fear of Change

How do you respond to change? Do you embrace it with all that you have or do you avoid it at all costs? Can I be honest with you? ...

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Mental Health

Being OK with Surviving

While these dystopian images may seem not far fetched for some, being in survival mode may encompass far more than just these extremes....

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Mental Health

Making Mental Health a Priority in the Midst of Financial Uncertainty

Whether you are heading towards retirement, are a young person just starting out in life, or are somewhere in-between, financial...

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Mental Health

Conversations in Isolation

Unprecedented stressors The other day, the price of oil broke a historic record (and not in a good way). For the first time in history,...

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Childrens Counseling

Supporting Your Teen Through the Quarantine

As we have learned to navigate our current reality as adults, we also have the opportunity to walk our teenagers through this quarantine...

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BUSINESS HOURS

"To move freely you must be deeply rooted"

Bella Lewitzky

Good Faith Estimate

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