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Why Play Therapy?
Why Play Therapy? Maybe you’re looking into counseling options for your child, or maybe you know someone who sees a Play Therapist, or maybe you’re just generally curious about the topic of Play Therapy! Either way, in this blog I hope to give just a brief...
Is Stress Killing You?
Have you ever been in a difficult conversation and felt your heart rate increase, your palms get sweaty, and your eyes go blurry? Or have you been sitting alone and had a past memory pop up in your mind and all of a sudden your jaw and shoulders tense and you feel a...
PART TWO of When Race Matters: A Counselor’s Personal Story of Ethnic Identity
This post is an extension from Part One of When Race Matters: A Discussion About Ethnic Identity. It is a thoughtful contribution that sets the scene for this post, so if you have not read part one you can easily access it by clicking the green link above. Cue the...
PART ONE of When Race Matters: A Discussion About Ethnic Identity
As I attempted to write my story, I started and erased the beginning of that blog so many times. I struggled trying to figure out the best way to begin a conversation on the formation of racial identity, since it’s so...what’s the word...tricky. It’s important...
A Therapist’s First 4 Questions
The first counseling session with a client looks different for everyone. Each person comes in with their own story, their own struggles, their own goals. There’s a lot of information to gather in that first session to try to get a sense for where this person is coming...
Developing Safe Relationships
A point I tend to make often with clients is that having safe relationships is important to our mental and emotional health. We all need someone we can feel safe to confide in and feel heard. If we want to overcome hardships and struggles, it is easier with the help...
WHAT GETS IN THE WAY OF CREATING INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS?
Something that you should know about me, is that I LOVE talking about dating!! While that does not mean that I love being single, it was during that time that I learned so much about myself, who I was attracted to, and what seemed to be getting in the way of me...
Am I DOWN? Or Am I DEPRESSED?
Feeling “depressed” is a phrase that’s tossed around pretty often, when someone’s had a bad day or didn’t get the job they were hoping for. It’s become a part of the common vernacular, which can be confusing when someone is actually suffering with clinical depression...
How Our Emotions Can Lead To Procrastination
In a previous post, I described the problems of procrastination and suggested several tips on how to get things done. For some, procrastination can be solved with developing skills like time-management and effective scheduling. However, sometimes a better schedule...
Am I Stressed Or Am I Anxious?
Everybody feels stress sometimes. If you’re in school, in the workplace, at home, in relationships… at some point you will experience stress, and it is normal. But how do we know when we have crossed a line from regular day-to-day stress into something more like...