What is the phenomenon “burnout”? Staff therapist Adrian Acevedo, MHC shares various forms of burnout and how to recover by finding and embracing meaning and purpose in your life.
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Are you feeling stuck? Do you have difficulty figuring out what to do first? Does it feel like things will always be the way they are now? Is it hard to find motivation and remain present in your day to day? These are all common feelings that can lead to feeling trapped in your current circumstances. Staff therapist Jenn Freed, LCSW, discusses where to begin and how to reconnect to self.
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Staff therapist Sam Sailor, MHC shares a personal perspective on queerness.
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With loss being an inevitable part of life, we are all destined to eventually encounter grief, and yet, much of what happens in grief is largely misunderstood or stigmatized. Staff therapist Alex Mammadyarov, MHC highlights 5 grief experiences that are probably more common than you think.
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When fighting with your partner, do you find it difficult to communicate respectfully? Does it sometimes feel challenging to understand each other’s perspectives and feel heard? Staff Therapist Rachel Damin, MHC breaks down the four most destructive communication patterns in romantic relationships and provides helpful tools for eliminating them from your arguments.
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Many of us will use every strategy imaginable to avoid feeling our emotions. Advanced Clinical Fellow Julia Papale provides tools to understand that emotions serve a purpose and how they motivate us to fulfill our needs.
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Staff therapist Valeria Aliendres, MHC-LP, discusses the desire some Latinx individuals may feel in wanting to share identities with their therapists, along with some of the benefits associated with cultural matching in the therapeutic relationship.
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So your teenage child shared that they don’t identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. You might be wondering, “Where do I go from here?” Staff therapist, Lina Mafi, provides suggestions for ways to support your child after they share their trans or gender non-conforming gender identity.
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What are signs that your mental health is declining? Staff therapist Kathryn Lee, MHC, provides a list of how to recognize the signs and ways to combat your declining mental health.
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What is “Box Breathing”? Advanced Clinical Fellow Ilana Friedman provides a breakdown of how-to and why our breath is important to our health and wellbeing.
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Anxiety is the cherry on top of what may already be a stressful situation and can create even more challenges as a result. In response to a trigger and activation of our nervous system through the unconscious, a story is born. Staff therapist, Ronni Umles, MHC, presents ways to practice identifying your story that has alternative modalities to seek relief from your own anxiety.
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Giving care is generated by the love for our significant ones. Staff therapist, Rich Chen, MFT, provides tips on fostering the awareness of your needs and emotions could help prevent the relationship from burnout and resentment by cultivating self-compassion.
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