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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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Relationship conflict

The Value of Relationship Conflict

Couples often come to therapy feeling distressed about how they fight. Conflict with a partner can feel like a threat to the relationship. Couples sometimes fear that conflict is a sign of a relationship in decline. They may feel stuck and afraid that addressing the

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How to Use Dating Apps

How to Use Dating Apps in a Healthy Way [Video]

How to Use Dating Apps in a Healthy Way  [Transcript]  In a world that app usage is becoming more and more prevalent, especially when it comes to dating, there is a growing concern around what is a healthy use and what isn’t. We are going

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Benefits of Mindfulness

The Everyday Benefits of Mindfulness

Mindfulness is a form of meditation, which has increased in popularity in the U.S. in recent decades. While it’s not a miracle cure, it’s a great tool for cultivating wellness, awareness, and acceptance in one’s own life. The basic lessons of mindfulness are the most

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How to make friends in NYC as a Gay Man

How To Make Friends in NYC as a Gay Man

New York City is the most populated city in the United States, and at the same time, it can be a very lonely place. Gay men from all over the country flock to New York to pursue careers and dreams that just don’t exist anywhere

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ghosted

Modern Dating and the Risk of Getting Ghosted

While enjoying dinner with a friend one evening, he shared a story with me that sounded all too familiar. My friend had met someone last month and it felt like one of those cliché movie moments.  He, while at a birthday party, was instantly drawn to a

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bipolar disorder symptoms

5 Tips for Navigating Your Bipolar Disorder Symptoms

Bipolar condition is part of a classification of mood disorders and has a broad range of expression, which is defined as a “continuum” or “spectrum”. Millions of people in the country struggle with this genetic condition. This particular mood disorder is characterized by mood swings

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insight and awareness

The Difference Between Insight and Awareness [Video]

The Difference Between Insight and Awareness [Transcript] We need both insight and awareness for our emotional and relational well-being. It is important to understand how awareness is different from insight. Let’s start with insight. Insight Insight is an understanding and explanation of our current behaviors, thoughts, feelings,

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Mindful communication

6 Ways to Master Mindful Communication

Miscommunications can happen when we lack awareness of how we use language. The responsibility we take for the words we choose in our communication with others can directly affect how in control we feel in our lives. When we are mindful of the words we

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be your own best friend

Be Your Own Best Friend: 3 Tips

When times are tough, it can be hard to treat ourselves with the generosity and kindness of a best friend. Instead, we can find ourselves flooded with negative thoughts and feelings that won’t go away. Similar to the idea of self-love, treating yourself as a

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External and Internal Validation

The Difference Between External and Internal Validation [Video]

The Difference Between External and Internal Validation [Transcript] What is validation? Validation is the confirmation or affirmation that someone’s feelings are valid or worthwhile. There are two types of validation: external and internal validation. External Validation This type of validation comes from others validating your individual

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Microaggression

What is Microaggression? And How to Avoid It!

I would like to start out with a story; one particularly warm spring day I was walking into a luxury high-rise building, where my therapist’s office was located. I was coming from work so I was dressed in business casual attire.  I went up to the

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Upset with your therapist

Upset with Your Therapist? Yes, You Should Tell Them!

Even if you love your therapist, they are human after all. Chances are you’ve had the experience of expressing something to your therapist and finding that their response feels a little off. Their response might have rubbed you the wrong way and even offended you.

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Dating Red Flags

Five Dating Red Flags [Video]

Five Dating Red Flags [Transcript] Hindsight is 20/20. It is easy to identify problems in a relationship after break-up. You might ask yourself, ‘how did I not see that coming?’ So with that in mind, I’ve gathered five top dating red flags that might help you

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