How can I calm my teen’s anxiety if I can’t even calm my own? Let’s face it, kids are tough. Being a parent is hard. Rewarding, but hard. So, what happens when your child experiences a bit of anxiety that you are all too familiar with? You try your best to [...]
How to find a therapist that’s right for you. Whether you’re new to therapy or ready for a change in therapists, your relationship with your provider is one of the most important factors for successful therapy outcomes. You should feel safe, secure, and connected with your therapist. Just like other relationships, [...]
What is IFS? Internal Family Systems, or IFS, is a form of therapy that has been around since the 80s that is flexible, client-centered, and evidence based. IFS says that every one of us is made up of parts – multiple parts is normal – and those parts are interacting with each [...]
How do we make friends as adults? Therapy work to do around making friendships Explore hesitancies, expectations, past experiences, social skills, etc. in order to feel better about putting self out there “You have to be willing to initiate more than other people, make really specific plans, follow through, then repeat. For [...]
Natural Mentoring Relationships: The Mediating Impact on Negative Behaviors During Adolescence As of 2017, researchers in the United States have found that about half of all children in the country will be exposed to some form of childhood adversity (McLaughlin, 2017). This has increased since 1995 from a quarter of all children. [...]
This blog post would read differently if I were a yoga instructor. As a therapist, I’m here to tout the wonder of yoga nidra when you can’t sleep. True insomnia is rare for me, but I definitely have times when my brain is on anxious overdrive and sleep is elusive. I bet [...]
Clinical Hypnosis & Pain Management Miracle or Malarkey? You might think hypnosis sounds like bullshit. For two reasons, clinical hypnosis works well for chronic pain management: body relaxation and true cognitive redirection. First, hypnosis only happens once a client has entered a state of relative calm or relaxation. Anything we can do [...]
There are few times in life more exciting than preparing for the transition from being a child into living as part of the “real” adult world. This transitional period can also be very challenging. All the change, new financial stressors, going to school, finding a job, starting a family. There is a [...]
With the slower days of summer, also comes my tradition of finding the weirdest puzzle I can and setting it up in the living room to give a little distraction from screen time. It’s disgustingly hot in Georgia right now, so I am not surprised that my kids don’t want to stay [...]
I’m more than halfway through my second read of Lost Connections by Johann Hari. This is an engagingly written book about why so many of us are anxious and/or depressed. Johann (he uses first names as he shares about each of the researchers he talked to, which inspires me to do the [...]
