Why Do I Tend To Overshare?

Why Do I Tend To Overshare?

Have you ever been in a conversation and realized that you’ve bared your entire past and plenty of personal information to an absolute stranger? Or maybe you’ve found yourself sharing sensitive information for no good reason. In this highly interconnected world, the...

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Childhood Emotional Neglect: The Trauma of What Wasn’t

Childhood Emotional Neglect: The Trauma of What Wasn’t

None of us are born with the ability to name, notice, or regulate our emotions. The child-caregiver relationship provides developing children with critical emotional experiences that define their relationship to emotion, their relationship with themselves, and their...

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How Physical Activity Can Help Heal Trauma

How Physical Activity Can Help Heal Trauma

You’ve probably heard that you can’t run away from your problems– but what if you could, quite literally, run away from your problems? When you’re dealing with trauma, physical activity can be quite helpful as you recover. Today, we’re going to discuss how physical...

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Coping with Student Loan Repayment Stress

Coping with Student Loan Repayment Stress

One of the biggest financial worries that many adults have today is student loan repayment. With the costs mounting and the promise of forgiveness being dangled and then taken away, Millennials and Gen Zers are finding their financial paths rocky and compromised– and...

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What are the Effects of a Narcissistic Parent?

What are the Effects of a Narcissistic Parent?

One of the hardest parts of growing up is realizing that our parents are people, too– and that sometimes they aren’t very nice people or very good parents. Sometimes our parents’ flaws create insecurities and challenges in our adult lives that have stuck with us since...

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Counseling for You and Your Valentine, Megan Negendank

Counseling for You and Your Valentine, Megan Negendank

Our wonderful Executive Director, Megan Negendank, was featured on a Valentine's Day segment on ABC 10 News! She describes what couples therapy is and some common reasons couples may come to our practice.Hi! I'm Megan Negendank, founder and executive director of Love...

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Undiagnosed ADHD Can Lead to Depression

Undiagnosed ADHD Can Lead to Depression

ADHD is a disorder that is very misunderstood. While there is a popular stereotype that this condition affects kids– mostly boys– and is identified by hyperactivity and impulsivity, the reality is that ADHD encompasses much more. In addition to the hyperactive type,...

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What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?

What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?

The Covid-19 pandemic has introduced many mental health challenges. The WHO noted that globally, the prevalence of depression and anxiety rose by a massive 25%. Fear and anxiety about the pandemic, isolation, and numerous other factors contributed to this increase, as...

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How to Teach Your Child to Think Critically

How to Teach Your Child to Think Critically

Critical thinking is one of the most important skills that a child can learn. And most parents agree; about 95 percent of people think that education, kindergarten through college, should require courses in critical thinking. Critical thinking, or the ability to look...

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What Is An “Inner Child” and How to Heal It?

What Is An “Inner Child” and How to Heal It?

Have you ever heard the phrase “your inner child” and wondered what it really means? It might even seem a little silly to think about– that you, an adult, have to think about having your childhood self inside of you? If that’s how you feel, your inner child might need...

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How to Move on After a Friendship Breakup

How to Move on After a Friendship Breakup

As a society, we spend a lot of time talking about romantic breakups. From movies to advice mavens, everybody seems to have something to say about what happens when a romantic relationship is over. But romantic relationships aren’t the only kind of relationship. For...

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Social Anxiety: Helping Your Child Cope With It

Social Anxiety: Helping Your Child Cope With It

Does your kid often feel sick, complaining of a stomach ache or headache before going to school? Have you noticed that they often try to find any excuse not to go? Are they cutting back on social activities, avoiding places where they might meet their peers? While you...

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What is Revenge Bedtime Procrastination?

What is Revenge Bedtime Procrastination?

Do you often find yourself up late, watching Netflix, gaming, or otherwise enjoying yourself? If this is a regular pattern, you might have fallen into the practice of revenge bedtime procrastination. Today, we’re going to talk about what that is, where it comes from,...

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Should You Be Having Breakup Sex?

Should You Be Having Breakup Sex?

It’s a familiar situation for a lot of people who have recently broken up with their partner. It’s late at night, and your phone buzzes. You ignore it, not wanting to pick it up– but the text alert goes off again, and you check it. It can’t hurt to check it, right?...

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What Is Aftercare and Why Is It So Important?

What Is Aftercare and Why Is It So Important?

Sex is a lot more than just, well, sex! The activities before and after a sexual encounter can have a huge impact on the intimacy between you and your partner. And while you might be familiar with the importance of foreplay, what happens afterward is just as...

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What is Vicarious Trauma?

What is Vicarious Trauma?

Trauma is a complicated thing. Sometimes, it makes some sense– like when you directly experience a traumatic event, you may find yourself having symptoms that you can at least explain, if not fully understand. But there are other types of trauma, too, like complex...

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