Surviving Your Partner’s Depression
If your partner is suffering from depression, you may be feeling helpless, overwhelmed, frustrated and confused. Trying to help may have left you feeling rejected, ignored or alone. Your depressed partner needs love and support, but you alone cannot...
Anxiety: What to Do and Not Do
Anxiety seems to be a common word I hear at every age with my clients. It seems to be increasing in children, and adolescents. For parents I understand that sometimes it can be tricky navigating what to do and...
The Road to Acceptance
Brittany Glaser , M.A., M.Div.
Things in our lives happen that are out of our control. The car breaks down. We get a shocking health diagnosis. People leave. The college you had your heart set on doesn’t accept you. Sometimes painful and unexpected things...
Why DBT Skills Training?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a proven therapy for all mental health issues that include emotion dysregulation as a symptom. Dysregulation is when someone is having difficulty managing their emotions. Unrelenting depression and anxiety, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder...
Parenting: Before You Fix It, Sit With It
Much like a wife desires a husband to hear about her day before coming up with solutions for her daily difficulties, our children desire the same from parents. Too often we as parents accelerate past the consoling portion of...
10 Quotes That Give My Mind (and Mood) A Boost
Just like tiny particles of pollen that impair our physical health each spring, one intrusive thought can undermine our mental health no matter the season. A negative thought or judgment can leave our mind a little fuzzy and have...
DBT’s Guide to Self-Soothing
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a specialized type of cognitive therapy that focuses on helping individuals regulate their emotions, tolerate painful emotions, and maintain relationships with others. One of the skills DBT focuses on is self-soothing. Self-soothing is your...
Changes and Transitions Happen Faster than We Want!
Let’s face it, children are always growing up too fast and going through different points of transition that may be harder than others. Sometimes during different times of change it can cause anxiety or sadness for kids because they...