Category: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
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What To Do When You’re In the “Sandwich Generation”
For many adults in their 40s, 50s, or even early 60s, life right now can feel like a relentless balancing act. You’re raising teenagers who are pushing for independence while needing your guidance more than ever—and at the same time, you’re supporting aging parents who may be experiencing increasing needs for care, attention, and advocacy.…
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Therapeutic Book Recommendations for Parents of Teenagers
I love reading and read a lot (as well as equally consume audiobook versions), including, of course, books in the field of psychology to keep me up to date and with new tools all the time for working with clients in my psychotherapy practice. In this post, I’ll be sharing a few insightful book recommendations for…
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Moving Toward Anxiety
I recently attended the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium (conference) in Washington, DC, and one of the workshops I most enjoyed was with Lynn Lyons on helping clients with anxiety. Her talk was geared towards work with teenagers but the principles seem generalizable for anyone dealing with anxiety. Lynn talked about how we therapists, parents, and teachers…
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How To Feel Like Yourself [when you don’t]
Sometimes it’s due to depression, grief, a major life change (moving, changing jobs or schools, family changes), and other times it can be more of an occasional low mood day or week etc that we just don’t feel like ourselves. Today I’ll provide a few ideas to help you feel more like yourself. These are…
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Freedom from Our Stressful Thoughts – Finding Flexibility in our Anxious Minds
I had the wonderful ‘bucket list’ opportunity to attend the School for The Work with Byron Katie last year. Byron Katie has created a process that helps us question our own stressful thoughts. The school/ conference was chock full of good information and experiential learning, and I thought I would try to organize my experience…
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