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What Are Embodiment Practices in Therapy?
We all become dysregulated and disconnected from ourselves at times. But if someone asks how you're feeling at a given moment, are you able to tune into your inner bodily sensations? Do you know how to listen to what your body truly needs throughout the day? Most...
Meaning Making: How It Helps You Heal After a Loss
To live is to experience loss, but even though grief is a universal human experience, that doesn't make it any less challenging. Most people struggle to know what to do after a serious loss or death. There can be a sense of panic that sounds like, "How will I ever...
What to Expect After EMDR Therapy Sessions
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a therapy treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health concerns. EMDR specifically entails moving your eyes in particular movements as you process traumatic memories. Unlike some other...
Understanding and Overcoming Your Overachieving Identity
Most people want to succeed in life, but does your desire to achieve ever feel like it's stopping you from truly enjoying the present moment? Do you find yourself prioritizing having a certain status over relationships or other meaningful activities? If so, you may...
Parts Work: Understanding Internal Family Systems Therapy
Internal family systems is an evidence-based practice that treats a variety of mental health challenges, improves self-esteem, and establishes an inner sense of calmness and clarity. Although ‘family’ is in the name, IFS isn’t family therapy. IFS is all about...
Are You Overlooking These Subtle Anxiety Triggers?
To be human is to experience anxiety, but sometimes it's hard to understand why you feel anxious at a given time. What's specifically causing you to feel worried or panicked? You can't control how you feel, but understanding your emotional states can help you develop...
How to Cope When You Feel Like You’re Falling Behind in Life
Does everyone around you seem to have their career track figured out? Are your friends buying homes while you struggle to pay rent? Do you have this immense sense of dread that you’re falling behind in life? We’re social creatures, and we naturally compare ourselves...
HAES-Informed Therapy: What It Is and How It Can Help You
Tired of diet talk? Unfortunately, it probably isn't going anywhere. We live in a society that thrives on making people feel bad about themselves. Research shows that nearly half of American teenagers are actively trying to lose weight. Another study found that the...
7 Benefits of Online Therapy
What image first comes to mind when you think about therapy? Is it a dimly lit office space or lying on a comfortable couch sharing your darkest secrets? That image is very real- but the landscape of therapy has undoubtedly changed! Until a few years ago, most clients...