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How do I know if I’ve Experienced Trauma? Tips from a Trauma Therapist in Westchester, NY

“What if I don’t remember anything that happened to me?” This is a question that we get asked all the time as mental health counselors...

5 Signs of Fear Based Distraction

Fear based distraction is way that we can avoid thinking about things we don’t want to think about. Or feeling emotions that we don’t...

How does Virtual Counseling Work?

Just because #coronavirus has caused many of us to stay home, that doesn’t mean you can't access counseling sessions with your...

Why It's Beneficial to Feel Your Emotions

Emotions are tricky. Sometimes they are simple, and can be easy to understand. Other times, they seem to appear out of nowhere. When...

How Mindfulness Improves Self Esteem

A healthy self-esteem is described as a positive attitude towards yourself. It includes an appreciative, realistic, and balanced view of...

4 Tips for Having Difficult Discussions

With everything that is being covered in the news and happening in our country lately, it is natural to feel discouraged and want to...

How Mindfulness Can Improve Anxiety

Mindfulness can be described as an ability to be fully present and aware of the existing moment, without interpreting or judging it. ...

5 Steps to Heal Your Inner Child

Healing From Emotional Abuse and Neglect Is childhood a painful memory for you? Or can you not remember all that much from your younger...

How To Trick Your Body Into Feeling Calm

Breathing and stress have a very strong connection. The primary role of breathing is to absorb oxygen and to expel carbon dioxide...

Going With Your Gut

Why Listening to Your Intuition is the Way to Go How many times have you thought, “I should have trusted my gut!”? When we face an...

6 Ways to Become a Better Athlete

Visualization for Athletic Success Visualization, also known as mental rehearsal or mental imagery, is a technique in which we imagine...

4 Ways to Manage Loneliness this Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day can be really triggering for a lot of individuals who struggle with anxiety, depression, or relationship issues....

7 Ways Therapy Helps College Students

For many students, stress is simply a part of their college life. High tuition fees, never-ending exams and life away from the family...

5 Tips For Your First Therapy Appointment

Have you been thinking about making an appointment with a therapist? Thought about it but haven’t been able to make the call? Are you...

How does EMDR work?

An estimated 40 million adults in the United States, 18% of the population, suffer with an anxiety disorder. 8.2% of the adult population...

Tips from an EMDR Therapist in Westchester, NY: 7 Ways EMDR Therapy Can Improve Your Life

Psychological distress is undiscriminating. It knows no age, no race, no gender. The good news is EMDR Therapy, which stands for Eye...

5 Ways To Combat Stress This Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving. It’s such a wonderful time of year. It is a time when we take a moment to stop, think and acknowledge gratitude....

AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS

HOW STRUCTURE, UNDERSTANDING, AND CHOICES HELP The first question most parents of a child with autism will ask me is “How do I best...

5 Benefits of Practicing Self Care

Self care is one of the most important things we can do for ourselves. Unfortunately, it is what we most often forget to practice. ...

Life Lessons From My Father

In honor of Father's Day, I felt it best to share the best advice and life lessons I learned from my father.

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