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Read our therapists’ latest thoughts on a variety of mental health topics including blogs on anxiety, depression, LGBTQ+ issues, and more!

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From Guilt to Shame: The Hidden Cost of Hurting Someone We Love [Video]

This video blog explores how harboring guilt and shame when you hurt someone you love can harm your relationship.

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Marijuana and Mental Health: Finding Balance and Wellness

Have you ever wondered the impact marijuana has on your mental health? Read this blog to explore the benefits and consequences of marijuana.

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Do I Have ADHD? How to Recognize the Signs

Do you ever find yourself asking, "Do I have ADHD?" Read this blog to learn about the signs of ADHD and what to do if you think you have it.

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Invisible Wounds: How Emotional Neglect Shapes Mental Health [Video]

This video blog explored how emotional neglect in childhood impacts adult mental health and how we can move toward healing.

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5 Common Misconceptions About Bisexuality

Bisexuality is a commonly misunderstood sexuality. This blog explores the misconceptions about bisexuality and its stigma.

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Where Are All the Kinky People? How to Find Your Kink Community

Curious about kink but feel like you’re the only one? Discover how to find supportive, like-minded people and build your kink community.

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On Task and On Time: How To Focus in a Distracted World

Do you find yourself getting easily distracted? This blog teaches us strategies for how to focus and improve concentration.

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The DSM-5 Explained: What Your Diagnosis Really Means

Have you received a mental health diagnosis and wondered what it means? This blog explains how the DSM-5 defines mental health disorders.

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What is Therapy Like With an AEDP Therapist?

Curious about what is AEDP therapy? Learn how Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy helps people have deeper emotional connections.

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Aging Well: Tips for Maintaining and Improving Self-Worth as We Age

Do you fear getting older? This blog shares how we can age well and gracefully in a way that increases our self-worth.

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Am I a Sex Addict? Understanding the Signs and Misconceptions [Video]

Do you ever wonder if your sexual behaviors are healthy? This video blog will help you answer the question, "Am I a sex addict?"

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Tired of Tokenism: The Healing Power of Real Black Queer Representation

While media has expanded queer representation, this blog explores how it still falls short in showing the Black queer experience.

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ADHD Symptoms in Everyday Life: Navigating Home, School, and Work

Does ADHD make it harder to navigate your life? This blog teaches us about why we experience ADHD symptoms and what we can do to live well.

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When Trauma is Ongoing: Understanding PTSD vs Complex PTSD

Have you experienced long-term consequences of trauma? This blog helps us in understanding trauma and teaches us about PTSD and CPTSD.

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The Change Triangle Explained: A Practical Guide to Emotional Health [Video]

The change triangle is a way to understand and process our emotional health. This video teaches us how to use it to improve mental health.

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Understanding Implicit Bias

Academics and social justice leaders have been researching and discussing implicit bias for the last 30 years. Specifically, they have looked at ways of understanding implicit bias and its impact on marginalized groups. However, only recently has the impact of implicit bias started to gain

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How to Talk About Sex With Your Partner

How to Talk About Sex With Your Partner [Transcript] In today’s video blog, we’re going to be discussing the four tips in preparing for sex talk with your partner. I want to start by saying that sex is a really big part of a relationship.

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Beyond Talk: Exploring Play in Therapy

Play is vital to life. It is a sign of health. Its absence can indicate illness. But what is play? It is a word we use frequently but may find difficult to define. Try coming up with a loose definition for yourself for a moment

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What is cPTSD?

If you have ever seen a small c in front of the letters PTSD, you may have wondered “what is cPTSD?” cPTSD stands for complex post traumatic stress disorder. It is a more severe form of PTSD and describes a lived experience of surviving repeated

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A Guide to Exploring Your Gender Identity

Our understanding of gender identity has become increasingly nuanced. Exploring our gender identity can be an important starting point for understanding the ways privilege and oppression touch us. As our understanding of gender deepens, there are a growing number of resources to help us explore

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Managing Grief in the Workplace

Managing Grief in the Workplace [Transcript] When experiencing grief in the workplace, it can be tough to make room for the painful emotions that we might feel. With all of the demands of work (meetings, deadlines, emails to write), it can often even feel like

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Building Tolerance to Find Comfort in Discomfort

“To stay with that shakiness—to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge—that is the path of true awakening.”  -Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart It has been a challenging time. Quarantine, necessary civil

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Reasons to Get Vaccinated for COVID-19 [Video]

Reasons to Get Vaccinated for COVID-19 [Transcript] It has been over one year since the start of the pandemic. Finally, we are in the stage of getting vaccinated for COVID-19. Many people feared that a vaccine for COVID-19 would be years away. Thankfully, it is

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Understanding and Managing Grief

Grief is a complex emotional response to something or someone you love being taken away. The pain of the loss can often feel overwhelming, coming in intense waves, and managing grief can be a real challenge. You may experience all kinds of painful and unexpected

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Practicing Compassion to Reduce Stress And Build Resilience [Video]

Practicing Compassion to Reduce Stress And Build Resilience [Transcript] Today we’ll be exploring how practicing compassion to reduce stress can help build resilience. I’ll be drawing from a number of sources today, but want to name the researcher clinicians Kristen Neff, Christopher Germer, Ruella Frank,

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