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Tips for Starting Your College Semester off Right
It’s that time again! Students are making the trek back to college all over the country. For many parents, the worries return and questions abound. Will my son or daughter do well while away from home? How much should I contact them? Will they remember to get their homework done? Finding a healthy balance between hands on and hands off is not an easy one. Students, was last semester [...]
BOLD™ Group for Teens
About the Class: The BOLD™ group is an 8-week courage-building group for adolescents based on Dr. Brené Brown’s research. Participants will engage in activities that focus on topics including values, courage, vulnerability and authenticity. With a group of their peers, teens will get the opportunity to identify and process what is getting in the way of being their truest selves and develop strategies to become a more authentic version [...]
Active Parenting Class – October 12 & 26
About the Class: Topics of discussion focus on depression, anxiety, self-harm, drug use, trauma, and social media. The goal of this class is to equip parents with simple, yet practical, skills they can use to help their pre/teen navigate difficult emotions.Evidence based modalities, such as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) will be used. Parents will be given handouts to take home of what was taught [...]
Dating Tips for Finding the Right Person
If you’re having a hard time getting relationships to stick and feeling like you’re unlucky in love don’t worry, that’s actually pretty normal. According to the U.S. Census, in 2017 45.2% of the American adult population was single. This means that people are spending more time dating in their adult lives rather than settling down earlier on. With the addition of online dating it has never been easier to meet a [...]
Fighting Loneliness by Taking on the Inner Critic
Loneliness continues to be a problematic internal experience for many Americans, and you can read more about this reflection here. The current trends of our American loneliness landscape continue to indicate that loneliness impacts people across all ages. A contemporary study from the AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) demonstrates that Americans over age 45 tend to suffer from chronic illness whereas the recent Cigna study indicates that young [...]
How To Fight Instant Gratification
By Grant Stenzel, MS Licensed Clinical Professional CounselorInstant gratification is something we all fall prey to from time to time. Sure, we all know that it’s going to be more beneficial for us in the long run to eat the healthy food instead of junk or put our extra money in savings instead of spending it on something shiny we don’t necessarily need. But eating junk food sometimes and making [...]