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Happy Holidays…or Not? 3 Ways to Combat the Holiday Blues
“Happy Holidays!” This phrase is thrown around all throughout the holiday season, and yet for many people, the holidays are the least happy time of the year. Holiday loneliness often shows up for people in many different situations, causing feelings of hopelessness...
You Had an Affair, Here are 6 Ways to Move Forward
In the aftermath of the discovery of an affair, there is a whirlwind of emotion, confusion, trauma, and pain. What can often get lost is that there are two distinct and valid experiences happening during this whirlwind, not just the experience of the betrayed...
Dear Young Professionals: Adulting Is Hard, Therapy is Good
Welcome to adulthood, right?! Graduate college...start a new job....move out of your childhood home (for real, this time)...nothing says adulting best than your first time picking out health insurance, budgeting every expense, and balancing the ever-changing...
Why Self-Care is Self-Preservation
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation.” -Audre Lorde Many of us regard self-care as a luxury. But caring for ourselves and making sure we have what we need to be well is as Audre Lorde put it, “self-preservation.” Without tending...
Healing from Infidelity: What Individual Counseling Can Teach You about Working Through Betrayal
Nothing prepares you for the blow of discovering your partner has been unfaithful. It’s emotionally overwhelming and amidst the chaos of your internal and external worlds, it can be challenging to know what to do next. You may not know if you want to stay with your...
Is There A “Right Way” to Get Angry?
How did you learn to think about your anger— Were you allowed to feel angry or did you learn how to stuff it down? Were you taught to express anger with your words or actions? Was it dismissed and invalidated with statements like “Calm down” or “Don’t overreact?”...
Tackling Trauma? Why EMDR Therapy May Be Worth a Try
I first discovered Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy, better known as EMDR, while in grad school. At the time I was working as an intern at a residential mental health facility for individuals in recovery from acute distress associated with...
Re-Entry Anxiety & Self-Care in a Post-Pandemic World
With the Covid-19 vaccine available widely now and new recommendations from the CDC for fully vaccinated people to be able to resume activities without wearing masks or physically distancing, our world is adjusting to another major change: life post-pandemic. For...
