How to Support your Child or Teen With Mental Health

How to Support your Child or Teen With Mental Health

Mental health challenges often surface during the teenage years, which is why it is crucial to already have an open and honest relationship with your child. The earlier you equip your child with coping strategies and options, the easier it will be for them to navigate...
What are the Benefits of Child and Teen Therapy in Sacramento?

What are the Benefits of Child and Teen Therapy in Sacramento?

Imagine how much easier your life would have been if, at a young age, you were taught about emotions and how to manage them. Child and teen therapy in Sacramento teaches youngsters this — and a whole lot more. If you’re wondering whether therapy is appropriate for...
Teenage Relationship Counseling

Teenage Relationship Counseling

Here’s a question for you: if you dated as a teenager, what was that experience like?  What relationship beliefs did you have?  What behaviors did you put up with, and how did you act within that relationship? Now picture this. How would your teenage dating experience...
Therapy for Children with Big Emotions

Therapy for Children with Big Emotions

As much as people like to romanticize childhood and paint it as this magical time, it can also be scary. For the most part, children have little control over the course of their lives.  Really, the only defense a child has is their emotions, and when you’re little,...
What Causes Teen Self-Esteem Issues?

What Causes Teen Self-Esteem Issues?

Despite being tone deaf, she was the kid at the elementary school Christmas concert who belted out ‘Silent Night’ with all the confidence in the world. She was the kid who tore around the playground, head high and shoulders back. She wasn’t the fastest or the most...
Why Do Children Need Behavioral Therapy?

Why Do Children Need Behavioral Therapy?

You’re at Target with your little sidekick. You just said “no” to a tantalizing endcap displaying pastel Easter eggs and yellow marshmallow Peeps, and brace yourself for what’s coming.  Your hissed commands, negotiation, and desperate attempt to make it stop are no...