Burnout: Maintaining a Healthy Work Life Amidst Pandemic-Level Stress
Bailey Smith , M.Ed.
One result of the ongoing pandemic is an increase in the number of workers reporting burnout. It’s not just the frontline doctors and nurses who are reporting increased levels of burnout at work; it’s teachers, school counselors, restaurant workers,...
Strategies for Communicating with Your Teenage Daughter
There comes a time when every mother-daughter relationship has stress – which usually comes around the teenage years. Mothers are always trying to protect their daughters which can lead to confrontation around this age period. As mothers, you naturally...
Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month: A Q&A with Summit Therapists
February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. According to the National Institute of Justice, teen dating violence includes physical, psychological or sexual abuse; harassment; or stalking of any person ages 12 to 18 in the context of a past...
A Man With a Dream: A 2022 Reflection
By Mollie Innocent-Cupid, Deputy Executive Director Every year on MLK Jr. Day, I find myself sitting and reflecting on what I want to take away from King’s life and his message. And what is it that I want to...
Can You Mourn Something You Never Had?
By Dr. Mollie Innocent-Cupid, Deputy Executive Director As a child therapist, I work with many children who have been abandoned by one or both of their biological parents. Some of these kids are unaffected by their abandonment and have...
20 Creative Date Night Ideas
Will Goodwin , M.A
While I was growing up, I discovered that the parents of a close friend of mine went on a weekly date-night. At the time I simply thought that this was a wonderful practice and felt confused by the fact...
4 Tips for Nurturing a Friendship With Your Spouse
Will Goodwin , M.A
How good of friends are you with your spouse? Good friends? Best friends? For some of you this question may even seem a bit unusual, because you think of your spouse simply as, well, your spouse. For others, your...
Parenting: Giving Yourself Permission to Self-Care (Guilty Feelings Not Included)
I’m even more grateful for growing up with the Christmas experience of older brothers assembling gifts together for me when I was a little, especially now as a parent of a seven-year-old girl whose favorite things in the world...
What is Play Therapy, Exactly?
Allison Bates , M.S.
The subgenre of play therapy is one that has many sceptics due to the subjective nature of play. Many people (including therapists of other subgroups) struggle with feel like ‘playing’ is a valid and beneficial form of therapy; however,...