Jul 6, 2021 | Child & Teen Counseling, Couples & Marriage Counseling, Family Counseling, Individual Counseling
However you arrived at this moment, you have survived a year like none other in recent memory. Whatever your beliefs are about the events of 2020, you are now here. Summer. 2021. You’ve probably aged a year. You’ve probably made adjustments you liked and others...
Jun 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Finding out your child/teen is engaging in self-harming behaviors can throw any parent into a whirlwind of emotions- fear, anger, sadness, and confusion (just to name a few). Understanding why your child would harm their body can be very difficult. I intend to shed...
May 8, 2020 | Child & Teen Counseling, Family Counseling
The hormonal waves are crashing. The mood swings might cause whiplash. The overwhelming sense that this child’s body is dictating their whole world. It’s puberty. I decided to write about some challenges girls face in puberty because I have witnessed the distress in...
Aug 20, 2018 | Child & Teen Counseling, Family Counseling
It wasn’t the first party I had been to. In fact, I had been to lots of parties before this one. But this is the first one I drank at. It had all the necessary ingredients for youthful adventure and stupidity: Lots of unsupervised teenagers, miles of forest, a bond...
Aug 1, 2018 | Child & Teen Counseling, Family Counseling
Have you ever felt like you’re talking into a wind tunnel or as though you’re talking to yourself when, in fact, you’re trying to have a conversation with your teenager? Do you ever feel like they’d rather be anywhere else than be standing in front of you or otherwise...