Person-centered therapy gets mentioned often, sometimes as a specific therapeutic approach, sometimes as a loose description of any therapist who’s warm and non-judgmental. The formal term refers to something more specific: a distinct therapeutic model developed in the mid-20th century, built around a particular belief about where change in therapy comes from. Several of our therapists draw directly on this approach, but it’s not one that many people outside of the mental health world often…
read moreMost people who want to improve intimacy in their relationship think first about couples therapy — sitting with a partner and a therapist, working through what isn’t connecting. That’s a natural place to start, and couples therapy is a great way to improve a relationship. But for others, the answer comes from working on yourself. Individual psychotherapy addresses dimensions of intimacy that couples work doesn’t always reach, and for many people it’s the more direct…
read moreMost parents sense that something has shifted in childhood over the past decade. The kids they’re raising are growing up in an environment that didn’t exist when their parents were raising them — one shaped by smartphones, social media, constant connectivity, and an information landscape that moves faster than anyone fully understands. The concerns are real and widely shared: anxiety, attention fragmentation, sleep disruption, social withdrawal, identity pressure, and a generation of children navigating developmental…
read moreAI has become a helpful tool for many. Though there are debates about whether it is truly a sustainable, society altering service, more and more people are using them to ask questions, get ideas, complete tasks, and more. One of the problems, however – similar to smartphones and social media – is that the tool itself is being used faster than people can study it, and that means that small changes can affect people on…
read moreSo, things have gotten complicated with your work spouse. Maybe your work wife stopped saving you a seat at the Tuesday morning meeting. Maybe your work husband has been eating lunch with someone from the third floor. Maybe they got reassigned to a different team and suddenly the whole workday feels different, and you’re not entirely sure what to do with that. As couples counselors, we’re here to help. But not today. Today, we’re going…
read moreGraduation season is one of the most celebrated milestones in a family’s life. Caps and gowns, photos, parties — a recognition that years of hard work have led somewhere meaningful. For families of students with ADHD, there is genuine pride in that moment and, often quietly alongside it, a significant amount of worry about what comes next. The high school to college transition is one of the most challenging passages any young person navigates. For…
read moreHigh school graduation is supposed to feel like a beginning. For many young people, it does. For others — more than anyone talks about — it feels destabilizing in ways that are hard to explain to the people around them who are celebrating. The structure that organized eighteen years of daily life disappears almost overnight. The social network that felt permanent is suddenly scattered. The question of who you are without the context of school,…
read moreWhen a child is acting out, shutting down, or making life at home genuinely difficult, the instinct most parents have is to find a therapist for the child. Get the child into a room with a professional, have someone work on the behavior, fix the problem. It makes sense on the surface. The behavior is coming from the child, so the intervention should be directed at the child. That logic holds in certain situations. It…
read moreSociety talks a lot about parenting being “hard.” But they don’t talk about how to address that. Parenting IS a challenge. Early on, it’s a lot of sleepless nights and managing the needs of a fragile creature that can’t take care of itself. Later, it’s a lot of errands, homework, fights over food, and so much more. We know that caregivers – people that take care of someone that is unable to take care of…
read moreMost couples who are struggling don’t connect their problems to sleep. They identify the arguments that keep cycling back around, the emotional distance that’s been growing, the partner who seems irritable or checked out. They notice the relationship getting harder without understanding why. Sleep is rarely on the list of suspects — and that can be a problem, because chronic sleep deprivation does measurable, specific damage to the exact things that hold a relationship together.…
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