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...
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...
2 Tools for Effective Communication
Every single individual on earth is constantly communicating, but they may not be communicating effectively. Often, we grow frustrated with our efforts to get our point across to others or when we try to fully comprehend others, but we...
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...
The Art of Skill Building
Before becoming a Licensed Professional Counselor, I spent some time working as a behavior aid at school specifically for students with an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis. One of the lessons that stuck with me from that experience is that...
Back to School Blues
It’s that time of year! School is back in session! Excited students shuffle down the hallway in new shoes, hands gripping the straps of their new backpacks. School supplies are new and crisp, waiting to be put to use...