What is Social Comparison Theory and how it impacts our self-esteem? Staff therapist Birch Cooper, MA, MHC-LP examines how complex social comparison can be and provides methods to shift your mindset to compare less.
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Why are emotions of anger and grief so complex, difficult to process, and painful, but essential to healing? Staff therapist Astrid Burke, MHC provides reasons why these negative emotions gives us the opportunity to move through our healing with this clarity.
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How do we confront the internal truths that we have absorbed from early development to adulthood? Staff therapist Ronni Umles, MHC brings an intertwined outlook on how aspects of our narratives play a role in our truths.
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What is dysphoria and how does it impact T/GNC folks? Staff therapist Sam Silor, MHC discusses about how challenging to navigate gender dysphoria during sex.
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How does Maslow’s hierarchy helps us think about our needs versus our desires? Staff therapist Ronni Umles, MHC discusses the acknowledgement of desires in relation to needs by providing four different steps in taking responsibility for making necessary lifestyle changes.
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Explore the concept of Han (한) with staff therapist Kathryn Lee, MHC. She shares how embracing our trauma and embracing the gifts that our ancestors have passed down will beautifully manifest to expressing such feelings in ways that are unique to our culture, history and identity.
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What is dissociation and how does it make you feel? Staff therapist Ingrid Camacho, MHC explores the concept of dissociation and provides some coping strategies that you can try!
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It is easy to dilute the pain we experienced to the direct cause of a rough happenstance, however we are often one of the most significant sources of our own suffering when life goes in a difficult direction. In this blog, staff therapist Dylan Lawson, MHC explores how the subconscious attempt to disconnect from reality.
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Self-esteem is the way individuals think and feel about themselves and their internal sense of being worthy of love and belonging. Staff therapist Birch Cooper, MHC reveals a way to shift from exclusively looking outward to looking within by knowing one's innate value as a human being and supporting this belief through the acknowledgment of intrinsic qualities rather than exclusively what we gain or achieve as a result of them.
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After experiencing a significant loss, we often ask ourselves this brief, yet loaded question: What now? Staff therapist Alex Mammadyarov, MHC illuminates a modern framework for moving forward in life we may no longer fully recognize while carrying those we have lost with us.
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The desire to understand the experiences of the LGBTQ+ community is dynamic and diverse and your allyship shouldn’t stop at rainbows and marriage equality. In this blog, staff therapist Sam Silor, MHC shares ways to lift up the LGBTQ+ community by educating yourself, staying up to date about laws, shifting your advocacy to a more community-based practice, and becoming more aware of how and where you distribute your funding to demonstrate a greater sense of intentionality in your allyship.
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Perhaps you’ve known that your relationship with your parent hasn’t felt right; that you had a good childhood but something is missing. In this blog, staff therapist Astrid Burke, MHC discusses Susan Forward’s book on how relationships with five possible types of self-involved parents may look.
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