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  • Do You Get Depressed During Fall And Winter Months?

    Do you wonder whether you have, or someone you love has, Seasonal Affective Disorder/ Seasonal Depression (SAD)?*  Today’s blog entry will cover symptoms, background theories on what may cause seasonal depression, and some things to do that can help with SAD. WHAT IS SEASONAL DEPRESSION/ SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER (SAD)? Often tending to be most severe…

  • Does Your Teen Struggle With Social Anxiety?

    I’ve been seeing a lot of social anxiety popping up in my office these days.  I think some of that can be attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic and how that changed schooling and socializing, at least temporarily.  Technology is also at a point where a lot of interactions can be via texting/ messaging, social media,…

  • Letting Go: a challenging [and continual] process in parenting a teenager into young adulthood

    Parenting a teenager into their young adulthood can be considered a constant and gradual process of letting go.  Your role as a parent changes as your child ages.  When they were a baby and learning to crawl, you likely crawled along on the floor with them.  Just like that, parents are tasked with continuing to…

  • Attention, Focus, and Organizational Strategies for Getting Things Done

    Whether you have ADHD, think you might have ADHD, or simply have occasional difficulties with focus and follow through [like most humans], this is the blog entry for you.  I don’t have to tell you that in this era of smartphones and social media, we are more easily distracted than ever before.    Here are some…

  • Pet Loss

    The death of a beloved pet is something we will generally experience several times within our lifetimes, as pets, of course, have shorter lifespans than humans.  One of the things that can be so difficult about the death of a pet is that society doesn’t always know what to make of pet loss, and/or we…

  • “Adulting”: How To Parent Your Teen In This [Sometimes Very] Long Process

    Turning eighteen is certainly a milestone, and yet most of us can agree that truly becoming an adult is a more gradual process.  It may be a longer process these days than ever before, as our teens and college aged kids have certainly been impacted by the changes in school and socialization due to the…