Support Kids Mental Health This Season

Support Kids Mental Health This Season

Seasonal changes can affect everyone—including children. As adults, most of us are aware of how seasonal change plays out, and understand that typically the pangs and unease are transitory in nature.  Children—especially if they haven’t experienced something like it...
Is Child Therapy Effective?

Is Child Therapy Effective?

Your child is struggling with behavioral issues or has experienced a recent trauma or loss. Early therapeutic intervention is one of the best ways to help them cope. Countless studies show how incredibly devastating unresolved childhood trauma can be.  Consequently it...
Teen Mental Health: How to Know When Your Teen Needs Help

Teen Mental Health: How to Know When Your Teen Needs Help

Here’s something you’ve said or thought, probably more than once:  I’m so glad I’m not a teenager in today’s world—I’m so glad social media wasn’t around when I was a teen! Yet, if you’re a parent of a teen you likely still feel some of what they’re feeling—plus an...
Why Self-Pay for Therapy?

Why Self-Pay for Therapy?

If you are curious about whether or not you could benefit from therapy, there’s one way to tell for sure: Are you breathing? Great. You need therapy. All joking aside, all of us benefit from therapy at one point or another. No matter who you are or what you have, the...
5 Qualities to Look for In a Good Therapist

5 Qualities to Look for In a Good Therapist

For many, the prospect of therapy – of having to open up and share your deepest most vulnerable self with a stranger – is terrifying. In fact, fear is cited as one of the main reasons many people who could benefit from therapy opt out, instead. However, the key to...
Questions to Help Draw Out Withdrawn Kids and Teens

Questions to Help Draw Out Withdrawn Kids and Teens

Being a parent is a flying by the seat of your pants kind of roller coaster, except no one’s there to ensure you’re tall enough to ride or strap you in safely. The teen years are notorious for presenting a challenge that’s felt by both parents and teens alike. There’s...