New Business Features
I’ve been hard at work trying to make my practice more accessible and useful to my clients, and wanted to introduce some new features! These are offered at no charge to clients and will hopefully make the whole counseling experience more seamless. Facebook Page I’ve created a Facebook page for my business! Now you can find details about my practice, read encouraging and thought-provoking posts, and interact with me via Facebook. My goal with this page is to make myself more accessible to clients. You can ask me business-related...
read moreReconsider Your Affair
I don’t normally do this, but after reading this NY Times article, I deemed it worthy to link to on its own. It’s very well-written and offers insight from both perspectives – the one having an affair and the one betrayed by their spouse’s affair. In my experience as a therapist working with couples, everything the author writes is painfully true. So if you’re considering having an affair or are stepping into one, please read this article and reconsider. If you’re in the middle of an affair, take this as a...
read moreReminder About Your Deductible
As the new year rolls around, it brings with it a fresh start at many things. One important one to pay attention to is your insurance deductible. Insurance plans work in one of two ways: Contract year plan. This means your plan begins and ends on a date you initiated coverage, and can be anywhere throughout the year. For example, it could begin October 1st and end September 30th of the following year. Calendar year plan. These plans always begin on January 1st and end on December 31st. Why does this matter? It matters because as January 1st...
read moreWhat Is Self-Talk?
In counseling, we often talk about the things we say to ourselves or think about privately. This is called “self-talk.” Sometimes it comes in the form of actual conversation or monologue with/to ourselves, and sometimes it’s just a bunch of thoughts we think about. Either way, it’s private stuff that nobody knows about unless we vocalize it in some way. What’s It For? Self-talk is incredibly valuable and an important part of our well-being. We use it to think through things, to interpret experiences, to...
read moreHow To Map Out Change
There are two basic things required for mapping change: something to run away from, and something to run towards. Running Away Usually people don’t think of running away from something as a good thing. When it comes to change, however, I think it’s absolutely critical. Why? Because whatever it is you want to escape tells you all kinds of information about what you don’t want, where you don’t want to go or end up, and how you don’t want to feel. This is valuable insight! Knowing what you don’t want can be...
read moreWhat Are You Worried About?
Anxiety is an extremely common issue that most of us struggle with. In fact, it’s one of the most diagnosed issues I treat and often exists alongside many other issues. However, anxiety is only a symptom and is very treatable. How is anxiety only a symptom? Well, because it rests on some other reason(s) to be worried or concerned. Someone who has never had a reason to worry may not struggle with anxiety; someone who has lost a job and become homeless, however, has very good reasons to worry. As a symptom, anxiety is future-focused yet...
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