Our Mental Health & Wellness Blog

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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!

holistic healing practices

What Is Holistic Healing? Exploring Spiritual Energy Practices Beyond Western Medicine

Are you curious about holistic healing practices? Read this blog to learn how smudging, crystals, and reiki can help your spiritual energy.

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experiencing social anxiety

How to Manage Social Anxiety Part 3 [Video]

Do you struggle with social anxiety? Watch the third part in a three-part video series on how to manage social anxiety.

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experiencing social anxiety

How to Manage Social Anxiety Part 1 [Video]

Do you struggle with social anxiety? Watch the first part in a three-part video series on how to manage social anxiety.

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experiencing social anxiety

How to Manage Social Anxiety Part 2 [Video]

Do you struggle with social anxiety? Watch the second part in a three-part video series on how to manage social anxiety.

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emotional intimacy during sex

Unlocking Emotional Intimacy: How Therapy Can Transform Your Sex Life

Are you struggling with intimacy? This blog explores how therapy can unlock your emotional intimacy which will improve your sex life.

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Black woman's mental health

BIPOC Women’s Mental Health and the Cost of Being ‘The Strong One’

For BIPOC women, the expectation to always be the “strong one” creates an invisible burden that deeply affects BIPOC women's mental health.

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woman of color with imposter syndrome

Imposter Syndrome in Women of Color: How to Stop Feeling Like a Fraud

Do you ever feel like a fraud? This blog explores how imposter syndrome hits different for women of color, and how to reclaim confidence.

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woman with health anxiety

What Is Health Anxiety? How to Recognize and Manage It

Do you struggle with health anxiety? Read this blog to learn what health anxiety is and how to manage it with mindfulness.

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Women struggling with ADHD

Little-Known Facts About ADHD in Women & Why They Matter [Video]

ADHD is everywhere in the media, but we are still getting it wrong in how ADHD shows up in women. Watch this video blog to learn more.

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AI therapist

Mental Health Care Deserves More Than AI Therapy

Have you found yourself turning to chatGPT for therapy? This blog explored why AI therapy is tempting, but it can't replace a real therapist.

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trying to stop being an overprotective parent

Helicopter Parenting: 5 Ways to Not Be an Overprotective Parent

Worried about being an overprotective parent? Read this blog to learn how to keep your kids safe without being a helicopter parent.

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overcoming people-pleasing

How to Stop People-Pleasing and Perfectionism from Controlling Your Life

Do you struggle with perfectionism? This blog teaches us how to stop people pleasing and why honoring our needs improves relationships.

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black people supporting each other due to systemic racism

From Slavery to Systemic Racism: How Racial Trauma Impacts Black Mental Health

Racial trauma is not just a present-day issue. This blog teaches us how the historical roots of slavery have led to systemic racism.

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girl grieving during the holidays

Grief During the Holidays: How to Navigate Grief in a Season of Joy

Are you experiencing a loss and struggling to find joy this holiday season? Read this blog to learn about grief during the holidays.

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holiday shopping

Holiday Budgeting Tips: How to Enjoy the Season Without the Financial Stress

Do the holidays make you more stressed than merry? Read this blog to learn holiday budgeting tips to reduce your financial stress.

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The difference between acceptance and resignation

The Difference Between Acceptance and Resignation

You’ve likely heard that in life you must accept the things you cannot change. Often you might hear this sentiment expressed around situations outside of your control, such as past events, the behaviors of others, or unforeseen circumstances such as illness, job loss, or death.

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mindfulness and self compassion

Bring Self-Compassion into Mindfulness [Video]

Bring Self-Compassion into Mindfulness [Transcript] In this blog, I will be discussing how safety, connection, and self-compassion can deeply support mindfulness practices. Common challenges during mindfulness practices Practitioners of mindfulness often report wandering minds, feelings of anxiety, boredom, or fatigue. Minds often wander to the

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Secrets to a happy marriage

Secrets to a Happy Marriage

Marriage is perhaps one of the most difficult unions to enter into because you know that you only have half of the control. As a couples therapist, I often hear in my sessions, “I married you, that should show you that I want to be

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Effects of chronic stress

The Effects of Chronic Stress

We hear people say “I feel stressed” so often these days that many of us just brush it off. Moreover, living in a big city like New York, we tend to view feeling stressed and overwhelmed all of the time as an inevitable part of

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How to have a healthy relationship with your phone

How to Have a Healthy Relationship with Your Phone

Smartphones, the technology we love to hate. It is a classic case of can’t live with them, can’t live without them. On the one hand, our smartphones have made our lives so much easier. On the other hand, they’re supposedly ruining our physical and mental

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Talk about mental health

Why It’s Important to Talk About Mental Health

Mental health can be a very challenging and sensitive conversation topic, especially when it comes to talking about your own mental health. This puts us in a very vulnerable position, where we have to talk about something extremely sensitive and personal. Being put in that

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what is your anxiety telling you

What is Your Anxiety Telling You? [Video]

What is Your Anxiety Telling You? [Transcript] Anxiety can be an uncomfortable feeling, but it can also be confusing because you don’t always know what’s wrong. Here are four easy steps you can use to understand what is going on beneath your anxiety and what

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Parent and child relationship

How to Adjust to the Changing Parent and Child Relationship

Family of origin stories and family relationship patterns are often the focus in therapy sessions. A common theme with clients who have an aging or sick parent is coping with the ways these events can change the relationship. Clients with aging or sick parents struggle

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ways we disconnect

Three Ways We Disconnect

We enter into relationships to feel connected to and accepted by others, and to belong. That is the intention for most people and the “ideal” situation. In the reality of the day-to-day grind of our lives, however, we are often interrupted (and interrupt ourselves) in

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how to increase your productivity

How to Increase Your Productivity

On average, most people work between 5 and 9 hours per day. If you’re like most people, your workday is a blend of low-velocity work mixed with continual distraction (e.g., social media and email). Most people’s “working time” is not done at peak performance levels.

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Standing up to sexism

Standing up to Sexism at Work

Let’s face it, although it’s 2019, we still unfortunately see many instances of sexism playing out in the workplace. Workplace sexism can take a huge psychological toll and make us feel devalued, disrespected, and invisible. The #metoo movement has brought new energy and focus to

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patterns in relationships

Using Your Attachment Style to Recognize Patterns in Relationships [Video]

Using Your Attachment Style to Recognize Patterns in Relationships [Transcript] Many different kinds of relationships can be impacted by your attachment style. If you are new to the theory of attachment, you might (very understandably) be wondering “what is attachment?” Attachment refers to the kinds

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How to manage panic attacks

How To Manage Panic Attacks

Every panic attack ends. We can all agree that, regardless of how we react or respond, every panic attack we’ve ever had has reached its natural conclusion. When a person experiences that combination of mental discomfort, unpleasant thoughts, and variety of unpleasant physical sensations, otherwise

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