May 28, 2021 | Child & Teen Counseling, Couples & Marriage Counseling, Family Counseling
You might be thinking how can one possibly consider this time in 2020 a time for gratitude and reflection. Well, allow me to remind you of just a few positive aspects of this unprecedented time in our lifetime: 1. If you are reading this, you have survived thus far....
May 21, 2021 | Child & Teen Counseling, Early Childhood Specialist
As school draws to a close and families start looking towards summer break, it is an excellent opportunity to set aside more time to play together. Play can be defined as an activity that is engaged in for pleasure rather than for a practical purpose. There are no...
May 11, 2021 | Child & Teen Counseling, Couples & Marriage Counseling, Family Counseling, Individual Counseling
As Spring is beginning to break through, I realized how challenging it has recently been to create and maintain healthy outlets. We need to have outlets where we can get recharged. More recently all options for indoor recreation have been closed or severely limited....
Mar 25, 2021 | Child & Teen Counseling, Couples & Marriage Counseling, Individual Counseling
The English language generally uses the words sympathy and empathy interchangeably. The truth is that these words hold very different meanings from each other. The origin of the word sympathy is translated from German to “felling with” while the word Empathy...
Nov 6, 2020 | Child & Teen Counseling, Family Counseling, Individual Counseling
In my family, 2020 started with glad busyness, full of life’s hopeful plans amid increasingly pressurized job environments. When coronavirus came to Colorado, plans were postponed and much of what we had counted on for security and stability moved beyond our reach. ...
Oct 16, 2020 | Child & Teen Counseling, Family Counseling, Individual Counseling
As a therapist I have been trained in understanding that all people have emotional needs. I have learned that our emotions are designed to alert us to specific needs. Often we have life experiences that wound our understanding of these needs. In my previous blog I...
