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Lessons from Winter
I wrote a prior blog about the lessons from autumn, and I wondered, what could I ...
Understanding the Mind of a Distancer
Pursuer-distancer relationships cause a lot of heartache, especially for a pursuer. Learn about the mind of ...
Let’s Restore our Balance, No to Polarizations
Recent elections are resulting in very challenging times for the country and for all of us. ...
Navigating the Challenge of Parental Jealousy
Having parents who are jealous of your success can be a difficult and confusing experience. On ...
Combatting Burnout: Self-Care Strategies for Stress Management
Burnout can affect anyone and leave you feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. It impacts your mental and ...
How Capitalism Exploits Women’s Natural Strengths
For millennia, women have been the backbone of families and communities, biologically wired to prioritize the ...
Are Narcissists Made or Born?
Narcissists can be hard to empathize with, but research on inherited narcissism shows they didn’t choose ...
Lean Towards Healing
All of us or at least many of us probably have something to heal. Maybe we ...
Resiliency Boost
What is resiliency? It is our ability to manage what comes at us. You can think ...
Thinking is Overrated
Our brains didn’t initially evolve to think. It evolved to keep us safe. To keep us alive. It ...
The Importance of Postpartum Group Therapy
Postpartum group therapy is a valuable resource for new mothers. Becoming a new parent is one of ...
4 Ways to Improve Communication in Your Relationship
If you’re reading this blog post, chances are you and your significant other have hit a ...
Is blue light actually bad for sleep?
This post was adapted from Jacqueline Nesi's newsletter, Techno Sapiens. My husband and I have very ...
Reflecting: Crossroads, Transitions, and Endings
As I reflect back over the last few years, it takes me back a bit. The ...
Burnout or Compassion Fatigue
When I had to quit my job and take time off, I was so clouded in ...
Validating Our Collective Struggle
Because of societal pressures to be able to “do it all”, we may feel a sense ...
July 28th is National Parents Day: A Gift to Parents to Combat Stress Spiraling
What is Stress Spiraling? Stress spiraling is when a parent’s stress triggers a child’s stress, which ...
How to Have a Healthier Family Through Better Co-Parenting
Moving forward after divorce is difficult for everyone, and trying to figure out how to co-parent ...
Helping siblings get along
This post was adapted from Jacqueline Nesi's newsletter, Techno Sapiens. I am the second-oldest child in ...
With Love and Grace
I have written about grace before but now I’m expanding the idea a bit to speaking ...
Self Care Doesn’t Cure Burnout
Burnout is something we caregiving professionals know about. Most of us have experienced, many of us ...
Healing the Mother Wound
The mother wound is a term used to describe emotional pain and trauma caused by a ...
5 Ways to Reignite the Spark in Your Relationship
‘The spark’ is a phrase that’s used a lot when it comes to romantic relationships. In ...
Empathy to Compassion
Charles Figley coined the term Compassion Fatigue in the early 1990’s. However, I believe it really ...
Real or Imagined Barriers?
Have you ever considered doing something, but stopped because you believed that there was an insurmountable ...
1 “Anti-Resolution” for The January Blahs
Why The January Blahs? The term “Anti-Resolution” counters the usual pressure to make New Year’s Resolutions ...
How Ancestral Women Did Group Therapy
Social support can help buffer the effects of stress and promote better physical and mental health. ...
Navigating the Choppy Waters of Finances with Your Partner: Insights from a Couples Therapist in NC
As a family, relationship, and couples therapist in North Carolina, I can say with confidence that the ...
Using Client Feedback to Improve Therapy Sessions
As therapists, we routinely ask our clients how they are doing, but there is an equally important ...
Crafting Connection: How to Build a Strong Therapist-Client Relationship
The relationship between therapist and client is the foundation of any successful treatment. But what are the ...
10 Financial Management Tips for Therapists
Money is often a fraught issue, particularly for therapists. We specialize in talking about difficult subjects, but ...
Tackling 2 Types of Procrastination for Better Work, Better Life
Why Do People Procrastinate? Just this week a couple of clients were suffering from procrastination. And ...
Getting Through The Holiday Season
It seems like an appropriate time to update my prior blogs since we are moving into ...
“Gone So Soon?” 7 Client Retention Techniques for Therapists
Twenty percent of psychotherapy patients end treatment prematurely, against the advice of their providers. When a client ...
7 Effective Marketing Strategies for Therapists
Therapists are often hesitant to “sell” their services. Some are afraid of sounding self-promoting, while others simply ...
The Internet, our favorite co-parent
This post was adapted from Jacqueline Nesi's newsletter, Techno Sapiens. Having recently returned to the “parenting ...
Save Time, Save Patients: 9 Tech Tools To Help You Reclaim Wasted Admin Time
What do you value most about your work as a therapist? Chances are, it’s not paperwork, billing, ...
Lessons in Autumn
There are many lessons in autumn we can learn. Particularly lessons from the trees during autumn. ...
It Takes a Village: How a Therapeutic Community Improves Outcomes and Prevents Burnout
For the third year in a row, therapists are facing an increased demand for mental health care. ...
Walking Hand in Hand: How to Care for Your Partner As They Cope With Depression
We always want to see our partners be at their absolute best. Watching them thrive, succeed, ...
Tip #1 To Master Intrusive Thoughts: Think About Elephants
What are Intrusive Thoughts? I heard that there was a shortage of social workers in Israel, ...
#MentalHealth: How Therapist Influencers are Making an Impact Via Social Media
Prior to September 2021, Jeff Guenther was a therapist like any other. He had a private practice ...
The Synergy of Holistic Wellness and Traditional Mental Health Therapy
In recent years, there has been an increasing recognition of the importance of holistic wellness in ...
Can Healthy Balance Be Found Within Our Hustle Culture Society?
Living in one of the largest metropolitan cities in the United States, the citizens of Phoenix ...
1 Great Success Tool: Your Anger
Why Not Anger? I once left a school I otherwise loved because they thought and taught ...
Differentiate Yourself from the Pack With An Online Presence
Imagine being a patient who has made the difficult and courageous decision to start therapy. You open ...
7 Ways Technology Can Improve Patient Outcomes
How would you feel if your sessions with patients were recorded, your words and exchanges then analyzed ...
2 Tips For Making and Breaking Promises Well
What is a Promise? I just made a promise not to say anything else about something ...
Self Care for Stress Reduction
Have you thought about the amount of time you spend helping others rather than yourself? Helping ...
