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An Overview Of Family Therapy
Constantly fighting with your loved ones can be stressful and make you feel like there is no end. However, if you’re arguing over the same topics with your loved ones repeatedly and it seems like nothing is changing, it might be time for family therapy. Family therapy brings together all your family members into one…
Should My Teen Go To Counseling?
Teenagers are not always easy to deal with. They have their own needs and wants, and often those two things don’t line up with what you want for them. One of the common problems that many teens face is their lack of emotional control. This means that they struggle to cope with certain situations and…
How To Help Your Depressed Teenager
As a parent, the most difficult thing is to watch your child struggle with their mental health. You may feel helpless, powerless or frustrated by your inability to help them through this difficult period in their life. However, there are many things you can do to support your teenager and help them overcome depression. The…
Why Do Therapists Use Play Therapy?
Children need to be made comfortable in order to open up and share. They often require a playful environment, one that doesn’t even feel like therapy. Play therapy is to children what counseling is to adults. Play therapy utilizes play, children’s natural medium of expression, to help them express their feelings more easily through toys…
How Can A Therapist Help Your Child?
Adults aren’t the only ones who need and benefit from therapy. Parent’s do not have the same knowledge as a trained child therapist. Therefore, some label their children’s behaviors as ‘kids being kids’ when in reality, there is an underlying diagnosis. A child therapist has the knowledge and vocabulary to give a name/condition to the…
What Does A Child Therapist Do?
A child therapist specializes in helping children overcome their mental health struggles. Unfortunately, Mental health problems amongst children can be overlooked by adults as just a child acting out. Parents can sometimes just assume that their child ‘will grow out of it’. However, the sad truth is that children can suffer with psychological, emotional, cognitive and…
How To Know When Your Teenager Needs Counseling
How to know when your teenager needs counseling is a difficult thing for a parent to understand and learn. As a parent, one of the most frustrating experiences is seeing your child struggle but they will not let you help them. It can be hard trying to understand what your teen is going through and…
Causes of Suicidal Thoughts
Adolescent suicide is now the third leading cause of death for 15-24 year old’s. This is a really serious issue that is unfortunately happening all around the country and it is often caused by teenage depression. As we know, there is no one cause of suicidal thoughts, so we must dig deeper and look at…
Overcome Intrusive Thoughts: The Ultimate Guide
Overcoming intrusive thoughts can be very difficult. In fact, research illustrates a ‘boomerang effect’ in which the more we try to not think about a thought, the louder it tends to become. A great example to explain this is like when you have a song stuck in your head and the more you keep trying to get…
Self-harm: The Ultimate Guide To Overcoming Self-harm
Self-harm is when we intentionally cause damage to the surface of our bodies through actions such as cutting, hitting, or burning ourselves. However, most of the time these actions are not done with the intention of committing suicide, but rather with the motivation to get relief from mental pain or to actually feel something after feeling emotionally…
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