Confidence Boosters Part 1: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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This blog post is the first in a series on building self-confidence. It explores how cognitive behavioral therapy can help boost your confidence in yourself. Cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT is a type of therapy that helps you identify and replace unhelpful or negative thoughts with more useful and helpful ones. This type of therapy […]

5 Ways to Practice Self-Care This Holiday Season

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It’s beginning to feel a lot like … a super stressful and demanding holiday season. It’s that time of year. Even though it seems to start earlier and earlier each year, the real holiday stress takes hold right around Thanksgiving and doesn’t ease up until the New Year. With this frenzy comes the very familiar […]

Trending: Mental Health and Self-Awareness

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There’s a lot of buzz about mental health as of late: influencers are sharing their personal struggles to normalize mental health, the news is highlighting the recent suicides of celebrities, and there are more and more apps to help with mindfulness and even provide virtual therapy services. But it’s not just a trend. Anyone who […]

DISCOVER HOW TO FIX BACK TO SCHOOL ANXIETY

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When I was a kid there were three words that I dreaded to hear every August… back to school.  They were the bane of my existence. It was the anthem that signaled the end of freedom, the end of vacation, then end of my summer. Every advertisement was framed in this artificial excitement for going […]

OVERWHELMED? HOW TO TAKE CONTROL BACK NOW

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How often to people cry when they come to therapy? This is hands down one of the top 5 questions I am asked when I talk about my job. Since I specialize in the treatment of anxiety and trauma people are curious how often clients cry in therapy. The answer is probably different for different […]