Making Friends in Adulthood
Making friends as an adult is not all that easy at times. We don't have the same social environments we did as kids, being made to go to...
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info978887
- Aug 17, 2023
- 3 min
Nurturing Healthy Online Dating Hygiene
Online dating has become a prevalent way to connect with potential partners. While it offers incredible opportunities for finding...
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birkhold3
- Aug 15, 2023
- 5 min
Conflicted About Conflict?
Are you opposed to engaging in conflict in your interpersonal relationships? Do you buy into the narrative that “healthy relationships”...
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Elizabeth Seabolt-Esparza, LPC
- Mar 24, 2023
- 4 min
The Important Connection Between Pets and Our Mental Health: Five Reasons to Adopt a Pet
Pets can be important for our mental health. Here are five good reasons to own a pet.
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birkhold3
- Mar 1, 2023
- 4 min
Reciprocity in Relationships
Reciprocity: mutual dependence, action, or influence; a mutual exchange of privilege. Reciprocity in relationships is an idea that comes...
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SJ Knowlton, LPC-A
- Dec 14, 2022
- 5 min
Attachment Theory, Online Dating, and the Anxious-Avoidant Cycle
What is Attachment Theory? Psychologists John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth’s research helped us to understand what we now call attachment...
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birkhold3
- Oct 25, 2022
- 6 min
From Dread to DEAR MAN!
One of the most frequent DBT skills I find myself teaching in individual therapy is DEAR MAN. This skill comes from the Interpersonal...
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Kristina Nunez, PsyD
- Oct 11, 2022
- 4 min
Gaslighting vs invalidation: A recent influx of narcissists or poor communicators?
Conflicts with others are typically uncomfortable experiences for most people. Frequently having disagreements with another person is...
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Shea McTaggart, Psy.D.
- Oct 5, 2022
- 5 min
Should I consider going to therapy?
Seeking Therapy for a Specific Symptom or Disorder When considering whether or not therapy may be beneficial, individuals often fall into...
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birkhold3
- Jul 21, 2022
- 4 min
Infidelity Recovery
One of the most difficult events that can happen in a relationship is infidelity. Relational safety is leveled to a 0 after an affair,...
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Jackie Perin, LPC
- Apr 30, 2022
- 2 min
Why Connection is so Important
Connection with others is more important than you might think. Meaningful connections with others lowers anxiety and depression, raises...
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Shea McTaggart, Psy.D.
- Apr 28, 2022
- 5 min
Feeling Disconnected?
Having recently attended a wedding and experiencing an opportunity to witness and speak to a newly wedded couple as well as all the...
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info978887
- Apr 27, 2022
- 4 min
Online Dating: A Survival Guide
Online dating survival guide.
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Elizabeth Seabolt-Esparza, LPC
- Feb 3, 2022
- 6 min
Pet Loss: The Struggle to Heal When You’re Experiencing Disenfranchised Grief
“It can’t all be sorrow, can it? I’ve always been alone, so I don’t feel the lack. It’s all I’ve ever known. I’ve never experienced loss...
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Catherine Comiskey, LCSW
- Feb 2, 2022
- 3 min
Rebuilding our Natural Therapeutic Supports
Natural therapeutic supports are the relationships and social activities that occur in our natural environments such as in the community,...
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SJ Knowlton, LPC-A
- Nov 23, 2021
- 2 min
Therapy Questions, Myths, and Misconceptions Pt 4
"Therapy is Only for Major Life Events" This series will handle misunderstandings and common questions we as therapists encounter from...
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birkhold3
- Sep 29, 2021
- 3 min
Family Therapy: How Can It Help and How Can I Prepare?!
Hesitation over starting family therapy is COMMON and normal. It is scary, but also very brave, to seek to change a family dynamic
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Katy Dimple Manning, LMSW
- Apr 30, 2021
- 1 min
Introvert's Guide to Managing Reentry Anxiety
Reentry fear is the dread of having to rejoin a noisy, social world that didn’t work well for introverts to begin with.
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Veronica Welch
- Nov 30, 2020
- 4 min
Four Keys to Sexual Self-Care
We generally understand what is healthy for the body, mind and emotions, but sexuality is a category of its own when it comes to...
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Daniel Katz, Psy.D
- Nov 23, 2020
- 5 min
Conceptualizing AA Chips as Transitional Objects
This post is a heavily edited version of a paper I wrote in school. I think these concepts are helpful for many people, so I hope I was...
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