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  • 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…

  • Applying to College Without Completely Freaking Out

    Senior year of high school can bring a lot of feelings.  It’s exciting to the ‘top of the food chain’ age-wise at school, have fun events like Senior sunrise, prom/ Senior ball, finally get to hold leadership positions in your clubs and activities, etc.  However… simultaneously while you’re doing high school and probably needing to…

  • Common Myths About Psychotherapy

    In today’s blog I am going to cover some perhaps commonly held myths about psychotherapy/ counseling, in hopes to clarify or demystify the process a bit. MYTH: You must be “crazy”/ there has to be something “seriously wrong” with you to go to therapy. TRUTH: Most clients are dealing with more everyday/ human condition things,…