Financial stress can creep into your life quietly, shaping your mood, your energy, and even your sense of self without you realizing it’s happening. During the holidays—when spending expectations rise and emotional pressures run high—it’s especially easy to overlook the toll money worries take on your mental health. Before you can address what you’re feeling, […]

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is designed for people who feel stuck in the emotional aftermath of difficult experiences—whether those experiences stem from a single traumatic event or years of accumulated stress and pain. It has offered transformative relief for patients with PTSD, depression, and anxiety. You don’t have to have lived through […]

When OCD feels especially convincing, it can be hard to tell where the disorder ends and you begin. The thoughts sound so real, so urgent, that even your trustiest methods of coping might start to waver. This isn’t a failure on your part, it’s just what it feels like to have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.  You […]

The tools we learn in therapy are perhaps at their most useful when it comes to de-escalating the fear and anxiety that our nervous system can hang onto. Counseling can teach us how to notice when our body is in fight or flight, but what can we actually do to calm our body down when […]

Therapy can give us the tools to handle our money anxiety, but it takes a good therapist and a committed client to put those tools into practice. What can we actually do to cope with our money anxiety? What advice do the experts have to offer when it comes to mental wellness in an age […]

When you have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, taking care of yourself can become quite a complicated task. Having OCD is far more inconvenient than just feeling compelled to clean or being afraid of germs. Suffering from OCD means it can feel like we’re at the mercy of our intrusive thoughts, and determining the right course of […]

Feeling overwhelmed by finals week? Approaching the finish line of each semester can be a test of our endurance, lifestyle, and emotional wellbeing. Any mistakes we’ve made are now readily apparent, and putting yourself in a state of hypervigilant distress about it comes all too naturally. But if we are highly upset, highly burnt out, […]

Without gratitude, it is all too easy to fall under the spell of anxiety and depression. If we do not take the time to appreciate the world around us, we put ourselves on a path to curse the world and all that it might offer. If we can be grateful for the calm darkness of […]

Have you ever seen what happens when children have to transition from one activity to the next? It isn’t always pretty. Any teacher, babysitter, or daycare worker can tell you to expect tension, drama, and sometimes tears whenever there’s a period of transition.  Human beings of all ages struggle to cope with change. It takes […]

If our day were a book, the morning would be the cover of that book. I think it’s pretty common knowledge that there are a lot of terrific books out there with absolutely terrible covers (thus the old proverb). If we decide just from the cover that the book is not worth our time, then […]