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What Are Therapy Intensives, and Are They Right for You?
Ever feel like weekly therapy sessions aren’t enough to tackle your anxiety, trauma, grief, or relationship challenges? Enter therapy intensives—your potential fast track to deeper healing. In this post, we’ll dive into what therapy intensives are, who they’re for, how they work, and whether they might be the right fit for you. What Are Therapy Intensives? Think of therapy intensives as the deep-dive version of therapy. Instead of spreading sessions over months, intensives pack in hours or even days of focused work in a short time frame. It’s like binge-watching ...
The Sleep-Stress Connection: Why Rest Is Your Superpower
In today's fast world, we often forget how sleep affects us. The link between sleep and stress is ...
How to Ease Tension at Holiday Time
We all get stressed during the holiday season. Most of us just deal with whatever is ...
Does Getting Older Make You Pickier?
They say it’s harder to find a partner after you’ve reached a certain age, and it’s ...
Focus on Your Goals
If you wish to reach your heart’s desire, consider taking a few minutes out of every ...
The Invisible Journey: Understanding the Secondary Survivor’s Experience
When someone leaves an abusive relationship with a narcissist, their next romantic partner enters uniquely challenging ...
The Case for Marriage Counseling
Breaking up can seem like the easy way out, but trust me, it never is. Also, ...
How to Know You Are Emotionally Healing
If you’ve been depressed or anxious for a while, it can be hard to recognize when ...
“But He Likes Alfredo Sauce, And I Like Marinara!” The Importance of Balancing Individual and Relationship Needs
“But he likes alfredo sauce, and I like marinara!” This was a true conversation between my ...
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What actually matters in parenting
This post was adapted from Jacqueline Nesi's newsletter, Techno Sapiens. I have nightmares about packing for ...
The Power of Prioritizing Sleep: A Triple Threat to Your Health, Productivity, and Well-being
In the hustle and bustle of our fast-paced lives, sleep often takes a backseat to other ...
Embracing the Divine Feminine: A Journey of Empowerment
Embracing the divine feminine means learning to trust your intuition and inner wisdom, even when the ...
Busy Enough?
I would say in many ways I am a recovering busyness addict. I wrote a prior ...
Making sense of The Anxious Generation
This post was adapted from Jacqueline Nesi's newsletter, Techno Sapiens. Jonathan Haidt’s latest book The Anxious Generation ...
35-40 Minutes to Grit for Mental Health Awareness Month
What is Grit? Grit is a psychological trait popularized by researcher Angela Duckworth’s bestseller: Grit: The Power ...
Making Friends as a Therapist- Why it’s Hard and Three Strategies to Help You Get Connected
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine yourself in the following scenario… It’s 9AM on ...
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Treatment with Exposure Response & Prevention (ERP) Therapy
How do I know if I have OCD and how is ERP effective in treating it? ...
Evaluating for Loneliness and Social Isolation at major life milestones
With COVID-19 pandemic in the rearview for many, its effects are still very noteworthy in the ...
Could The Licensed Social Worker Designation Be Outdated?
Once the “gold standard” of mental health care, are the LSW studies and licensure outdated? Is the ...
Stress Awareness Month Statistic: 67% Downplay Stress
What is Stress? One of the biggest mistakes people make is jumping to the conclusion that, ...
So you want to be in private practice as a therapist….
Private practice is a dream for many therapists, but where to start? What do you need ...
Money: 19 Globally Distributed Low-To-No-Income Communities Score as Happy as the U.S.
Does Money Buy Happiness? First, they say it doesn’t. Then they say it does. Then they ...
Self-Compassion Enhances Us
I talk a lot about self-compassion because I believe it has a ton of benefits. Self-compassion ...
Pay Attention To Red Flags – Your Instincts And Intuition Are Meant To Be Trusted!
If you listen, you will probably hear other mentions this week about trusting your gut, your ...
Dramatically Sharpen Your Mind: 40 Minutes in Nature, or 30 Minutes, or What?
Why Do We Love Nature? Some say it’s because landscapes remind us deeply of the lush ...
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At Belongly, we’re inviting mental health professionals to submit their articles for distribution within our community and across our multiple channels.
Self-Disclosure with Psychotherapy Clients…Good Idea or Not?
A few things were heavily emphasized in my graduate program in my quest to becoming a ...
Digital Minimalism: A Pathway to Improved Mental Health and Mindfulness
In an age where screens dominate every corner of our lives, where every beep and buzz ...
The Art of the Referral: Getting Every Patient the Care They Need, Promptly
How to empty your waitlist while growing your business. Waitlists are a terrible client experience). Imagine showing ...
Creating a Parenting Plan
In a perfect world, marriages would never dissolve. But divorce is a reality and one that ...
The Silent Crisis: The Mental Health Impact of Homelessness on Society
Homelessness is a pervasive issue plagues societies worldwide, transcending borders, socioeconomic statuses, and races. While homelessness ...
Putting Social Media to Work for Your Practice
Ah, social media! It seems people either love it, hate it, or a mix of both. ...
1 Powerful Way to Supercharge Your Self-Improvement Month: Make A New Habit!
Why Should You Make A New Habit? Here’s why: September is Self-Improvement Month, and making new ...
Legal Pitfalls for Therapists
In the Apple TV series Shrinking, Jimmy Laird is a psychologist who has recently lost his ...
Do “trigger warnings” work?
This post was adapted from Jacqueline Nesi's newsletter, Techno Sapiens. You’re sitting at your computer. You’ve ...
Understanding Trauma Responses: Why Proper Diagnosis Matters
Life can sometimes throw us into storms we never anticipated. When we encounter traumatic events, our ...
Money Matters for Mental Health Practitioners
Owning and operating a private practice provides therapists with autonomy and flexibility. But running a business ...
How Your Boss Can Impact Your Mental Health
My mental health was suffering because of a coworker with a position of power who made ...
Adding a Virtual Assistant to Your Therapy Practice
As the demand for mental health services continues to rise, many therapists are struggling to juggle ...
Language, Racism and Speciesism-Time for New Words and Concepts “
Racism, Sexism-and all the “isms” that corrode our soul have roots and origins in Speciesism, ...
Embracing Authenticity and Challenging Norms: Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Movie and Its Emotional Impact
Introduction: In a world that often emphasizes superficiality and places unrealistic expectations on individuals, Greta Gerwig's ...
98% of Conversations Are Too Much Talk
Why We Talk? Recently I lost a friend. Actually, he was he was a friend of a ...
5 Eating Disordered Behaviors That Are Normalized in Our Society
Keto, Paleo, Weight-Watchers, Whole 30, Noom... There is no question that dieting is big business in ...
Mindfulness Unveiled: Illuminating the Path to Enhanced Mental Well-being
In the whirlwind of our modern lives, where multitasking has become a virtue and time races ...
A mindful approach to your phone
This post was adapted from Jacqueline Nesi's newsletter, Techno Sapiens. Like most people, my relationship with ...
Health At Every Size (HAES): The Antidote to Weight Stigma?
Linda* battled her body for years. Growing up in the 1980s during the height of diet ...
When to Worry: Recognizing Signs of Trauma in Your Loved Ones
Over the past several years, there have been numerous traumatic events all across the country. From ...
What is a trauma response?
I want to discuss the impact of trauma on children. A trauma response is a reactive ...
The ABC’s of Therapy: A Primer on Treatment Types
The field of psychology has a penchant for acronyms. CBT, DBT, EFT, EMDR… It can be ...
Difficulties of Being Mixed Race in America
Mixed race individuals may face micro-aggressions such as being asked to "choose" a racial identity, being ...
Journaling for Mental Health: Helping Patients to “Write Their Way Out”
The mental health benefits of journaling are well-documented. However, patients often don’t know how or where ...