Category: New Years

  • Your Teen and Smartphones/ Social Media – What’s a Parent To Do?!

    Being a parent in this digital era often means navigating two interwoven worlds: the promise and pitfalls of smartphones and social media. These tools can empower teens with connectivity, creativity, and learning—but they can also contribute to anxiety, sleep disruption, and social pressure.  In our digitally saturated world, smartphones and social media play significant roles…

  • Holiday Mental Health Tips:

    Caring For Yourself During a Busy Season The holiday season is sometimes described [by Hallmark] as the most wonderful time of the year—but for many people, it can also feel overwhelming, stressful, or lonely. Between gatherings, financial pressures, and busy schedules, it’s easy to lose sight of self-care. For those who are grieving the loss…

  • 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…

  • How To Manage The Holidays (& maybe even enjoy them)

    The holiday season is upon us (in case you hadn’t noticed).  While the holidays can be exciting, memorable, and fun, they also can be a challenging time navigating family members, finances, overwhelm, depression, the political climate, and/or grief and loss, to name a few.  I thought I would pass along some holiday tips and tools to help make the…

  • Habits: Tips and Tricks for Building and Maintaining Habits Important to You

    Want to change your eating habits, increase exercise, quit or decrease something (smoking, alcohol), stop procrastinating, or get more work done?  Just in time for the start of 2024 – a ‘fresh start’ time to begin a new habit – I’ve compiled some tips to help start and maintain good habits. Timing May Matter/ “Fresh…

  • Therapist Approved Smartphone Apps

    We spend so much time on our smartphones these days, that why not go with it in terms of sharing some apps that I have found, in my private practice, to be helpful for mental health and well-being.  Additionally, there are a couple apps that can help with focus, which can be a big struggle…