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Make It Positive

  Often times when I’m meeting with parents for the first time to discuss therapy for their child, parents feel desperate for help and change as soon as possible, yet they understand that even with therapy it will take...

“I’m Not Yelling, You’re Yelling”: Top 5 Tips to Managing Conflict with Your Partner

Contrary to popular belief, conflict within a relationship is healthy. Conflict allows us to express our inner concerns and/or feelings and often leads to positive resolution. How you handle that conflict, however, typically results in one of two ways:...

Summit Counseling Partners with The SAM Foundation to Provide AMSR Training

  Summit Counseling partnered with The SAM Foundation to provided AMSR training (Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk) to 30 local clinicians. AMSR was designed to allow clinicians to challenge their personal biases, provide a framework to determine patients’ risk and to...

You Are Enough

“You are enough” is one of my most loved and most hated phrases. On the one hand, it can be very assuring. It can be the phrase that keeps you from comparing yourself to other people, especially unrealistic images...

7 Lessons Learned Through Our Flood Disaster

Managing Your Body Image during Swimsuit Season

As spring break and summer nears, you may feel a little bit of body anxiety or insecurities creeping up. We have all heard phrases such as, “It’s swimsuit season, I need to diet” or “I need to work on...

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

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...

Listening to Understand, Not to Reply

How often are we listening to understand instead of listening to change? Research shows that most conversations we have are one way; meaning that we are only listening to gain information for ourselves to then reply. When people don’t...