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Resilience in Crisis

If you were a fly on the wall of my therapy office over the last week or so, you would have heard a lot of talk about the COVID-19 pandemic. What I started noticing quickly was that there are a lot of similarities in how people are experiencing the crisis and what we’re all saying […]

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You’re Bigger than This

I am bigger than this. This is one of my favorite mantras. Mantras are tricky, of course, because what resonates with one person doesn’t with another. What means one thing to one person means something totally different to another person. I, personally, like this one because I certainly have a proclivity toward over-identifying with some […]

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Your Kid: The Expert Communicator

In talking about kids and parenting in therapy, there are a couple topics I find that my counseling clients and I come back to often.  At the top of this list is what to make of and how to respond to children’s behavior. Parenting is complex. If it wasn’t, there wouldn’t be countless books written […]

Therapist? Psychiatrist? Counselor?- What’s the Difference?

Every profession has its fair share of jargon. Something specific, though, to the mental health world is jargon in the form of provider titles and credentials. The goal of this blog post is to help clear that up a bit. Once you know the basics, they’re actually pretty easy to keep straight. Let’s start with […]

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The Truth About Pain

Overall, pain has developed a bad reputation. Even the word itself, for some of us, feels a bit sinister. In this blog, I hope to shift the perspective on this a bit and show that many people’s view on pain is missing the boat. First, I want to clarify that I, in no way, wish […]