Many of us will use every strategy imaginable to avoid feeling our emotions. Advanced Clinical Fellow Julia Papale provides tools to understand that emotions serve a purpose and how they motivate us to fulfill our needs.
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Staff therapist Valeria Aliendres, MHC-LP, discusses the desire some Latinx individuals may feel in wanting to share identities with their therapists, along with some of the benefits associated with cultural matching in the therapeutic relationship.
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So your teenage child shared that they don’t identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. You might be wondering, “Where do I go from here?” Staff therapist, Lina Mafi, provides suggestions for ways to support your child after they share their trans or gender non-conforming gender identity.
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What are signs that your mental health is declining? Staff therapist Kathryn Lee, MHC, provides a list of how to recognize the signs and ways to combat your declining mental health.
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What is “Box Breathing”? Advanced Clinical Fellow Ilana Friedman provides a breakdown of how-to and why our breath is important to our health and wellbeing.
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Anxiety is the cherry on top of what may already be a stressful situation and can create even more challenges as a result. In response to a trigger and activation of our nervous system through the unconscious, a story is born. Staff therapist, Ronni Umles, MHC, presents ways to practice identifying your story that has alternative modalities to seek relief from your own anxiety.
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Giving care is generated by the love for our significant ones. Staff therapist, Rich Chen, MFT, provides tips on fostering the awareness of your needs and emotions could help prevent the relationship from burnout and resentment by cultivating self-compassion.
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What worth is and where does it come from? Staff therapist, Alaina Malik, MHC-LP examines how no one or thing outside of yourself can define your self-worth. Here are ways to practice defining your self-worth means and watering within the crack to grow self-acceptance, self-compassion, self-awareness, and self-understanding
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Humans need to love and be loved. It’s similarly universal that many of us find this vital sense of love and belonging in our families of origin. Staff therapist, Sam Silor, MHC, explores how choosing your own family is making an active decision about whom you’ll share access to yourself and your energy.
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Thinking a lot about control, and how often when we try to control something it begins to control us? Advanced Clinical Fellow, Julia Papale, discusses how letting goes of control allows for building trust in our own process to be free.
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Most of us are somewhat familiar with models for grief such as the ‘5 Stages’ but what about a model for grief support? Staff therapist Alex Mammadyarov, MHC sheds light on the benefits of taking on Dr. Alan Wolfelt’s companioning approach to supporting the bereaved.
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Summer is the season of sun-warmed skin, the smell of sunscreen and sea breeze, dripping popsicles, and fun vacations. Advanced Clinical Fellow Ilana Friedman provides ideas on how to be present, relax, and rest on your next vacation so can ‘just be’.
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