Change Your Relationship with Anxiety
Anxiety-How do you respond? How do you talk to yourself when you feel anxious? Do you distract yourself or avoid …
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Parenting Support
The job of parenting is one of the most challenging and rewarding opportunities we have in life. Childhood and adolescence …
Pornography: Is it OK?
PORNOGRAPHY Is it okay for my husband to look at pornography? This is a fairly common question I hear from …
Emotional Numbing
With all its ups and downs, experiencing emotion is a normal part of life. After all, our emotions tell us …
Thriving or Surviving?
What is the difference between surviving and thriving? When I talk to new and prospective clients, I often tell them …
Overcoming New School Year Stress
The beginning of a new school year is filled with excitement and opportunity, along with plenty of stress and fear. …
Taking Steps Towards Emotional Healing
Did you get a message growing up that strong emotions were bad or a sign of weakness? Or that having …
Suicide Prevention and Awareness
Call or Text 988: Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Memorizing these numbers may help save a life: 988 September is National …
Videogaming: How Much is Too Much?
Videogaming can certainly be a problem. The answer to the question of how much is too much is not a …
Loss at the Core of All Problems
Grief and Grieving In the height of summer in July, I left to begin graduate school in the suburbs of …
Boundaries, Part 1
Are Your Problems Really About Boundaries? Boundaries are so important to overall emotional health. Knowing where our responsibilities lie and …
Being Present Throughout the Day
A lot of my clients tell me they notice they are zoning out, feeling numb, checking out of conversations, dissociating, …
The Waters We Swim In
Over the past year, I participated in narrative-focused trauma training at The Allender Center. The program is centered around learning …
Finding Routine in the Midst of Summer
In the midst of summertime, any sort of routine or ritual may feel like it gets thrown out the window. …
Exercise Therapy: Sweating Out the Stress
Are you familiar with exercise counseling and its benefits? In graduate school, I first heard about therapists taking their clients …
Is AA Not for Christians?
Many years ago, when I was beginning that long, uphill journey toward sobriety, despite the fact that I was not …
How Change Works
Have you ever desired to change but inevitably ended up stuck? Have you wondered why you start the process of …
Three Questions Key to a Healthy Parent/Teen Relationship
Over the years that I’ve been practicing as a therapist, I’ve seen a lot of parent-teen relationships—most of them were …
The Grief of Moving
Three years ago, I moved here to the Atlanta area from Philadelphia. It was a big change for my family …