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The Postpartum Blues

The Postpartum Blues

The postpartum period can be such a challenging time. The massive life adjustment to having a new baby that literally depends on you to sustain their life (even though you were already doing that in pregnancy — just outside the womb now), to the physical recovery of...
Value of Play Therapy

Value of Play Therapy

Mr. Rogers wisely stated, “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.”This truly is the case with play therapy for children. Some parents may wonder about...
Emotionally Focused Therapy and Relationships

Emotionally Focused Therapy and Relationships

When your relationship doesn’t feel like it once did, or you hoped it would, it can feel earth-shattering. When the days of joy, connection, and safety feel like a distant memory and you find yourself caught in the same rip currents over and over, hope seems out of...
Grief is Non-Linear

Grief is Non-Linear

Grief is something that comes up a lot in the therapy room. Grief shows us what we love and care about, and what is important to us. Two common misconceptions surrounding grief are that we only feel it when someone dies and that it’s a linear or quick step-by-step...
School Stress

School Stress

Navigating the Storm: Managing School Stress Phew, summer is over! Already?! As the new school year kicks into high gear, many students find themselves grappling with stress. Whether it’s the pressure to excel academically, the balancing act between school and...
Story Work

Story Work

If we slow down long enough to be still, to quiet the voices in our head and to separate ourselves from the distractions that are constantly around us, we can hear the words of our body, the story it has to tell. We all have a story.  What usually happens is we aren’t...