Easing Into the Darker Months Empathy, Self Compassion and Self Care for Positive Mental Health In my therapeutic work, I’m often seeing themes and patterns with different clients. In the last few weeks, I’ve noticed a collective shift of mental health and physical issues, including increased fatigue and sudden flare ups of chronic pain, […]
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Understanding ADHD My ADHD Journey: Unmasking, Acceptance, and Self-Compassion I was recently officially diagnosed with ADHD—something I’ve intuitively known for years. But only in the last few years have I begun to truly experience and understand how profoundly it impacts me. Since entering perimenopause, the challenges have intensified. My ability to mask
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Self Care Basic Necessities for an Overwhelming World If you are like me or any one of my clients and colleagues, you are overwhelmed with life. Work, social life, health and wellness, family and kids, social media, the news. It’s just too much to manage these days. And what suffers the most? Often our basic
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It has been a really long time since I last shared a blog on my website. Two weeks ago, a current client alluded to something I had written a few years ago. I was embarrassed by the fact that the last entry was from 2022. I should have been writing all this time! What was
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Mental health and our environment Over the last 5 months, my family and I have been in a state of flux. In November, we packed our belongings into a POD, sold our house and moved into my family’s vacant home, temporarily, while we looked for our new home. Although we have everything we need, not
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A question I often ask clients is how do you begin your day and do you have a morning routine. The most common reply is no. There is a lot snoozing, fighting the necessity to get up and leaving just enough time to get ready to go to work. I frequently hear from clients that
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The 3 G’s: Grace, Grounding and Gratitude What are the three G’s? For me and many of my clients, the three G’s, grace, grounding and gratitude, are the most important elements of the therapeutic work we do together. Firstly, they are so important because they help to alter the negative beliefs and behaviors that cause
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Therapeutic Resources for You! There are so many therapy type self help books, podcasts and newsletters out there, it can be overwhelming to choose something for a specific issue. I have a bookshelf full of books that I still haven’t read and a library cart full of more. I wish I could just lay my
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Emerging From The Pandemic For the last 15 months, we have been living through unprecedented times. A global pandemic, an election to decide the future of our democracy, racial injustices and violence and trauma that we are only now experiencing and scratching the surface of. As a mental health counselor, I have seen the effects
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What Its Like Doing Mental Health Therapy With Me What is an Actual Therapy Session Like? During the free consultation for mental health counseling that I offer prospective clients, I’m often asked what therapy sessions will be like with me. It’s a great question and there are different answers to it depending on what the
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