Therapy for people-pleasing NeuroDivergent & LGBTQIA+ folx struggling with multiple traumas to break cycles of pain and live free, authentic, joy-filled lives.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this upcoming election and Queer Psych is hosting some of these thoughts on their site!
Before 2020, online therapy was a bit fringe, not something many therapists I knew were comfortable with.
When I started my private practice in 2018, I knew that making a path for more people to have access to mental health services was something I wanted to be a part of. I have been doing tele-therapy since 2018 and have discovered some great added benefits to seeing your therapist on a screen.
Self-care: we know we need to practice it, we are sometimes annoyed by it, and when we need it most, it’s often the first thing to fall off our to-do list.
As I’m preparing for the birth of our first child, trying to manage preparing clients and the business before my maternity leave, all while dealing with the spontaneous happenings of both homeownership and chicken farming, this topic has crossed my mind multiple times a day for the past few months. How can we cope with all of the stressors of life while also taking good care of ourselves? This is a question I also explore every day with clients through my therapy practice and because I believe in doing the work myself to better help those I serve, I personally ponder this frequently.
Here I’ll try to distill down some helpful tips that I’ve learned along the way and hopefully they will prove beneficial for you as well.
It’s a tough time in our big world, especially for anyone who feels different from the norm. We are seeing this all over the news, social media, and in our communities. Living in a time when minorities across the spectrum are speaking up and demanding to be accepted, tolerated, and treated as equals. Young people are speaking out about violence, bullying, and mental health needs and while it is disappointing that our youth are put in a position to need to be activists in these areas, it does fill up my heart to see such confident teenagers fighting for what they believe is right and just.
With the holiday season upon us and with many unexpected monkey wrenches thrown in my path recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about trying to do it all. I have some news for you: it’s impossible.
It’s two weeks until Thanksgiving and I can feel the collective tension mixed with excitement and anxiety as we all begin to prepare ourselves for the upcoming holiday season.
“Can you believe it’s only two weeks away,” we ask each other with wonder and a bit of fear, realizing that soon we will be thrust into the chaos of the holidays which can be happy and exciting but is also all-encompassing and overwhelming.
“Stress” has become all too common a word for our young ones. I frequently hear middle school and high schoolers talking about how stressed they are and think to myself, “YIKES! You are way too young to be stressing about stress!” In our culture of go-go-go and childhoods filled with countless standardized tests, after school commitments, and very little down time, the truth is that without some concrete skill building to manage everything, your child is likely to be heading for (another) emotional meltdown.
There is compelling research now stating that 20% of the population is Highly Sensitive. Read on to learn more about what it means to be Highly Sensitive and how you can best support your sensitive child.
What’s the number one reason people come to therapy? To be happier! Really. There are so many other ways to word it such as “decrease depression” or “get back to being myself,” but the gist is really as simple as happiness. Actually, happiness can seem like the most complicated goal of all. I’m here to tell you that it may be layered and deep rooted but finding your happiness doesn’t have to be as complicated as it seems. Here are some ways I help clients improve their levels of happiness everyday.
Here are my top tips for learning to love yourself just as you are today.
Are you feeling alone? Do you long for connections but then get stuck when you need to take the next step? Maybe you’re afraid of being hurt (again), maybe you are unsure of what to do or say, or maybe you are just frozen with indecision. If any of this sounds like you, read on, I have a letter for you.
