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Parenting & Children, Teen & Young Adult Issues

[email protected]March 29, 2024October 20, 2024

5 Ways Parents Can Help Daughters Overcome Stress in High School

When girls enter high school they face more pressure than just the weight of their backpacks. They face hours of demanding homework, higher expectations at home and school, as well as a more complicated social schedule. While each girl enters…

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Additional Mental Health Issues

[email protected]March 27, 2024October 20, 2024

Can People Really Change?

Everyone who comes to therapy is seeking one thing- they want to stop feeling the way they do. Fair enough, some emotions feel really terrible and wanting them to go away is understandable. By the time they get to therapy,…

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Parenting & Children, Teen & Young Adult Issues

[email protected]March 26, 2024October 20, 2024

Interacting With Your Teen Constructively: Do’s and Don’ts

It can be difficult to avoid escalation when enforcing rules or parenting teens. Not only are teens at times defensive when having behaviors corrected, but many parents experience an emotional response that can make it difficult to maintain a neutral…

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Relationship Issues

[email protected]March 26, 2024October 20, 2024

What Makes Marriage Work?

As a marriage counselor, I am often asked my thoughts on what makes marriage work or to offer my best marital advice. When asked, I think about all the collective wisdom and theoretical approaches to healthy relationships and there has…

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Additional Mental Health Issues

[email protected]March 24, 2024October 20, 2024

3 Things You Should Consider Before Starting ADHD Meds

Difficulty remembering dates and names? Unfinished projects? Reading a paragraph only to get to the end and realize you have no idea what you just read? Restlessness? Impulsivity? You may have ADHD…but, you may not. Other factors may be contributing…

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Parenting & Children, Teen & Young Adult Issues

[email protected]February 23, 2024October 20, 2024

5 Ways to Help your Child Navigate Stress

Since I specialize in working with adolescents it is common scenario for a parent to drag their reluctant high schooler into my office early on a Saturday morning for an intake. What the parent wants is often to the effect…

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Additional Mental Health Issues

[email protected]January 28, 2024October 20, 2024

The Power of Positive and Strength Psychology

When I was in graduate school quite some time ago, Positive Psychology was not that well known. But every time I read authors that talked about optimism or vibrant, healthy functioning, I came alive. I knew deep down that as…

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Parenting & Children, Teen & Young Adult Issues

[email protected]January 28, 2024October 20, 2024

Homework Strategies – What to do to Start the New School Year

Two Things To Know And One Thing To Do To Start The School Year Off Right With the new school year starting for most students over the next couple of weeks, both parents and adolescents will undergo predictable stressors that…

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Parenting & Children, Teen & Young Adult Issues

[email protected]January 27, 2024October 20, 2024

How to Avoid the Summer Slump?

What is “summer slump” or “summer backslide”? These terms address the regression in skills that students experience when they are enjoying their summer vacations away from their regular course rigor. While regression can be steep (e.g., up to 25% decline…

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Parenting & Children

[email protected]January 27, 2024October 20, 2024

How to Help Children through Divorce?

When a marriage ends there is almost always a good deal of fear surrounding the future. The children if there are any, finances, and our new identity as a non-married or divorced person are often at the top of the…

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Depression

[email protected]January 27, 2024November 22, 2024

4 Steps for Overcoming Depression and Getting Through Tough Times

We all face difficult circumstances at some point in our lives. And sometimes, those circumstances can lead to a sense of despair that feels overwhelming. The good news is you don’t have to go through hard times alone. Therapy for…

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Relationship Issues

[email protected]January 25, 2024October 20, 2024

4 Steps to Help Couples Manage Conflict in their Marriage

Couples often seek marriage counseling because of unresolved conflict. Every relationship will have issues, but marital conflict can be especially painful. According to the marital expert Terrence Real, “Nothing is more important in our lives than our relationships. A great…

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Anger Management

[email protected]January 24, 2024October 20, 2024

5 Ways to Manage Anger

All of us can relate to getting mad sometimes. All of us have “lost our cool” at times; have said something more harshly than we meant; or wish we could take back something we said or did while mad. We…

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Depression

[email protected]January 23, 2024October 20, 2024

5 Ways to Beat The Winter Blues of Depression and Sadness: Seasonal Affective Disorder

Did you know that three million Americans are diagnosed every year with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)? SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) is a type of depression that starts in the fall or winter and progressively gets worse. It improves around the…

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Additional Mental Health Issues

[email protected]January 23, 2024October 20, 2024

Eating Disorders – Freedom from Food and Body Obsession

Eating disorders and issues surrounding food and body image seem to be growing in today’s culture for women and men. Indeed, the “typical” demographic of eating disturbances is that there is no typical demographic anymore. Eating disorders stretch across race,…

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