Ways To Manage Stress And How Counseling Can Help How do you deal with stress? What does stress do to your mind? What does stress do to your body? Are you aware of the warning signs of stress? Stress impacts each person a little bit differently than others. In some ways, we cannot…
How To Create A Healthy Family System How do you create a healthy family dynamic? Healthy families have systems and practices that they utilize which directly create and sustain the family system. If you are trying to create a healthy family system, I want to share with you a few areas that can be…
Ways To Help Your Child Increase Self-Esteem Parents come together in sharing that one of their main objectives is to raise happy and healthy kids. Part of raising a happy and healthy child is connected to teaching your child how to strengthen self-esteem. Have you ever sat down with your child to talk to…
Positive Affirmations To Raise Happy Kids Affirmations help kids build healthy levels of self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-worth. If you are unfamiliar with affirmations, I want you to think about them as words that feed the soul. Affirmations are words that we use to promote healthy thoughts, feelings, and actions. For instance, when a person…
How Counseling Can Help Your Child With Depression Working with a child counselor can give your child tools to address common depression symptoms, develop healthy coping skills, and learn how to become their own advocate. Common Signs Of Depression In Kids: Low energy. A decline in academic performance. Not wanting to socialize. Negative…
How To Teach Your Child Mindfulness: Tips From A Child Therapist Mindfulness is the act of being in the present moment. Though this may sound like something easy to do, it can be challenging. For kids, this strategy can be very challenging. This is due to the amount of stimulus that kids have in…
Bullying is a big problem in our society. In fact, it is considered an epidemic by many people. Since the pandemic we have not heard a great deal about it because most children were attending school remotely and had little direct contact with each other. However, bullying did continue during remote schooling and it is…
A short blog post to start out the new year … If you’re heading into 2022 with a heavy heart, you are not alone. We are still in a global pandemic, and many of us are grappling with immense loss and grief on personal, collective and ancestral levels. Society puts a lot of pressure to…
“What are we doing to our kids?” is a quote from Cameron Crowe, who wrote the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High a movie from 1982. I ask this question on a daily basis. Cameron Crowe while discussing the movie with CNN for their special report on movies made his statement about teenagers. He…
Coping with mental health issues during the winter and during Covid can be very difficult. Many of the options available to people during the spring and summer are not available during the winter which makes dealing with mental health issues during the winter difficult. I have many patients who report having a harder time dealing…