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Mid-Year Mental Health Check In

We are more than half way into the year, and that means it's time for a mental health check in! Just like you would schedule a doctor's...

Addressing Dialectical Dilemmas Through Trauma Informed Therapy

DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) posits that there are three types of dialectical dilemmas that are commonly found in the behavioral...

7 Ways to Work Towards Positive Body Image

Working as an eating disorder therapist and a therapist who works with teenagers, body image is something that I talk about almost on a...

4 Reasons Teens Today Are Struggling With Anxiety: What Parents Need to Know

"We've given them everything, why are they still struggling?" Teens today are experiencing unprecedented levels of anxiety. According to...

5 Mental Health Related Books for Kids

Every now and then, we need a little help explaining things to kids. Trying to change the language to kid-appropriate lingo can be hard...

4 Things to expect when starting EMDR Therapy

This is to those who are having thoughts about starting EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy, just signed on with...

What Mental Health Therapists Learned From COVID in Westchester, NY

A Letter of Gratitude: Dear YOU, After 2 years of having our very way of life flipped upside down by the pandemic, the current mainstream...

6 Signs You’re an Overthinker

Identifying Symptoms, Reasons, and Strategies to Combat Overthinking Do you find yourself going over and over things in your head?...

You Matter, I Matter: The Path to Assertive Communication

When disrespected or hurt by others, do you become angry with yourself instead? Have you ever been confronted about the chronic use of...

Anxiety Refresher: Symptoms and Coping Strategies

If you are someone who experiences anxiety (like a lot of us do), welcome! My goal for this blog post is a refresher on anxiety, its...

Can anger be helpful? Tips from a Trauma Therapist in Scarsdale, NY

I want to start by saying: all emotions are good emotions. Yes, some are more uncomfortable to experience versus others- but each emotion...

How to Break Free from Codependency

Do you feel like you're always putting others first? Do you feel like you can never do anything right unless you're pleasing someone...

3 Ways to "Just Breathe."

Have you have ever been told to "just breathe" or "relax" while amidst a highly unpleasant emotional experience and found yourself...

Difficult Conversations: Why they aren’t always “bad”

When we think of the word “conflict” often times our thoughts jump straight to: “How can I avoid this?” or “It’s fine-It's not a big deal...

Do Successful People Go To Therapy?

5 Tips to Improve Emotional Intelligence What Does it Mean to be Successful? Success is a subjective term. Most people hear successful...

Getting Off The Hedonic Treadmill: 3 Ways to Feed Your Mind the Awareness it Needs

Have we turned into Human "Doings"? One of the ways the technological revolution has created difficulty for human beings to experience...

New Year, New YOU - 4 Tips to Improve Your Relationship With Yourself!

A New Way to Think about New Year Goals

How to Get More Out of Rapport in Therapy

Therapy in COVID and How to Strengthen A Therapeutic Rapport

Trauma is not one-size fits all...

You don’t need to meet the criteria for a PTSD diagnosis to be affected by trauma. I've heard a lot of clients share experiences with me...

Resolving Anger Charged Conflict: Clear Vision, Not Collision

For the greater part of some 300,000 years our species has existed, the evolution of self-defensive anger is one of the reasons we have...

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