What To Expect If You Contact Us For Therapy
Fear of the unknown is a major driver for a lot of us. In fact, if you’ve thought about starting therapy, not knowing what to expect — or where to...
3 Tips To Manage Election Stress
Americans are a diverse bunch with lots of different values and priorities. The tension overlaying this election season has highlighted this fact. There is something that the majority of us...
Self-Care for Therapists: 4 Suggestions to Try
Last week, we talked about compassion fatigue and the negative toll it can take on therapists. Even if you haven’t reached this state of vicarious trauma, most mental healthcare professionals...
Support for Therapists: Understanding and Addressing Compassion Fatigue
We’ve been using our blog page to explore pertinent mental health topics for years. It almost always centers around someone who’s either personally experiencing a mental wellness challenge or supporting...
Cognitive Restructuring: Healthy Ways To Deal With Negative Thought Cycles
Does it ever feel like your head is spinning? Like you start going down a negative thought path and you can’t pull yourself out? Or like your mind is going...
Journaling As a Coping Mechanism: How It Works and How To Get Started
Coping mechanisms are key to helping us regulate and tolerate our emotional fluctuations (yes, fluctuations in our emotions are normal!). The key here, though, is choosing coping thoughts and behaviors...
Shadow Work Exercises You Can Try
Last week, we talked about how shadow work can help you acknowledge the parts of yourself that you might try to tamp down. In doing so, this kind of therapy...
What is Shadow Work?
Most of us have an ideal version of ourselves that we try to present to the world. Behind the scenes, though, there’s usually a lot more going on. Shadow work...
3 Ways to Support a Grieving Friend
When someone you love experiences loss, your first thought is usually about how you help them. But a lot of us get stuck there. It can be hard to know...
Coping with Loss: 6 Tips to Help You Start Your Healing Process
Losing someone dear to you transforms your life overnight. Suddenly, the world you once knew feels like it no longer exists. As you navigate the days ahead, the pain might...