Selecting a College is Hard! 6 Tips to Support Your High School Senior
Selecting a college is rarely easy. Do not hesitate to get help for your child or try sessions together. Working with a skilled counselor is a powerful step toward easing this emotional transition.
How You Can Cultivate Resilience in the Age of COVID
Resilience can be hard to find without help. It can be hard to sustain without the mental and emotional tools. Like any other characteristic or skill, it can be taught.
COVID Constraints All Over Again? How to Deal with Your Dread & Worry
Do you need a mask or not? Are vaccines or boosters mandated? What economic help is still available? Can you go to school or work in person? From state to state and city to city, it seems everyone is at odds these days
Keeping Calm at College: Everyday Ways to Cope with Anxiety
Any September, in any year, new college students feel anxiety about the big transition. Even under “normal” circumstances, the pressure can get to you. Up to 32 percent of new college students report feeling stressed and anxious.
What to Do When Your Child Won’t Stop Lying
Every child will tell a few lies at some point. Generally speaking, this is not something to panic about. Still, it’s also not something to ignore.
Generational Trauma: How to Recognize It and Overcome It
From our parents, we inherit an incredibly wide range of characteristics. There are plenty of conversations to be had about eye color or the timbre of one’s laugh
Is Your Loved One Depressed? What to Look For
Does your loved one have depression or just a bad case of the blues?Depression is a common mental health disorder. Even so, it’s not always easy to recognize in others, particularly someone close to you.
Fear and Forgetfulness: Are Your Anxiety and Working Memory Linked?
There are so many things that can cause you to feel stress. You might be anxious about a job interview. Then again, you might be in the midst of a global pandemic. To your brain, it’s all “stress.”
Got Parenting to Do? How to Discuss Your Obligations at Work
Among the countless challenges of the past year or so, parenting obligations are certainly high on the list. It’s not as if things were simple before the lockdowns.
BIPOC Need Space in the Workplace: 5 Ways to Help Create It
Our work lives can be a challenge under any circumstances. For black, indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC), it also involves some unique obstacles.
Battling Inflammation? Signs That Your Depression is Linked
You may be surprised to learn that depression is the leading cause of disability across the globe. You may be shocked to learn too, that at least half of the people with depression are not responsive to existing treatments.
Too Anxious to Sleep? What You Can Do to Rest Well
Anxiety at night is very similar to anxiety during the day. But there’s one big difference. Throughout the day, you’re usually preoccupied with tasks, interests, and responsibilities. By the time you prepare for bed, however, you typically have more space for fixation and worry.
Equity Begins at Home: How to Be A Force for Racial Change
In the age of social media, gestures are often mistaken for progress. For example, consider the recent discussions about racism. Sustainable social change is not created by profile pictures or memes.
Living Your Happily Ever After? Why Couples Counseling Matters Now
There’s good news about individual therapy. For the vast majority of people, it no longer carries a stigma in many situations.
What Male Depression Looks and Sounds Like: 5 Common Signs
Male depression is often overlooked and under-discussed. The reasons for this are varied. First, this mood disorder is more common in women. In addition, men are less likely to seek a diagnosis for what they’re feeling.
Your Partner’s Addicted to Gambling: What Do You Do Now?
One of the most important foundations of any relationship? Trust.
Sadly, that trust can be shattered by addiction. If drugs or alcohol come immediately to mind, that’s not unusual. Yet, gambling addiction can just as easily tear apart an otherwise loving couple.
Coping With the Pain of Pregnancy Loss
There are many, many forms of grief. When you experience pregnancy loss, it is no less a loss than any death in the family. However, in this case, it is also the loss of innocence, a season of life that once seemed natural and inevitable.
On-Screen Trauma: What You Shouldn’t Believe About Media Depictions
The "fake news" phenomenon is not limited to just news. Inaccuracies run rampant all across all forms of media. From pop culture to social media, we are falling victim to artificial intelligence algorithms. The deceptions are convincing.
Zoom Anxiety: How to Cope When You Dread the Next Video Chat
How quickly things change. A little more than a year ago, you may have been stressing over what we now distinguish as an "in-person" work meeting. What should I wear? Will I be asked to speak? Am I prepared?
Try These 4 Positive Mental Practices to Cope as COVID-19 Continues
It’s not over yet. Layers of stress and fear have been laid down for more than a year. Regardless of the specifics (case count, vaccines, masks/no masks, etc.), few people will be able to flip the positive switch.