5 Reasons Why the Holidays Make You Sad (and what you can do about it!)
I see it time and time again in my practice. Instead of feeling joyful, excited, or cozy the holiday season warps into a season of overwhelm and stress. Rather than accepting your fate and powering through, what if there was room to explore the ‘why?’ and find a new way to approach things?
It’s a Barbie World: Diving into the Feminine Subconscious of the Barbie Movie
By the time a woman reaches 30 it is hard to cope with the emotional pile up of our own coming of age. Somewhere along the way our dreams for our Barbies changed from candy-colored fantasy to sharpie’d out black eyes, jagged haircuts, and throwing Barbie on the roof. It’s all too easy to hate Barbie sometimes.
Grief Idea: Planting a Memorial Garden
When you lose someone that is close to you it can feel like your world is collapsing. The profound emptiness left behind is a constant companion in the same way that their love filled up your life. They are still there in your memory, but the feeling of knowing you cannot create more memories with them is heavy.
What is Play Therapy?
Overcoming Fatigue and Lack of Motivation: 7 Empowering Self-Care Tips for Girlies that Have Zero Energy
Everything feels like too much, your motivation is in the toilet, and you feel like it’s hard to even get yourself off the couch. You are bone tired. You simply cannot today. We all have those days sometimes. For some, those days happen all too often. Perhaps you have been going on months of chronic stress, and it has left you feeling burnt out.
What Goes into a Therapist’s Fees?
A solo practice, such as mine, relies on the session fees to cover business expenses such as: office rent/utilities, HIPAA compliant confidential software, billing, marketing, maintaining professional listings, malpractice insurance, professional supervision, scheduling, supplies, etc. Some of those tasks are outsourced ($$$!) or can be done by the therapist themselves. All of it requires money and time and is accounted for in the session fee.
Comfortably Numb: What can You do in Therapy if You are Feeling Numb?
What is a Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern?
All RMHCI’s have completed at minimum a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in mental health counseling from an accredited graduate program. They have also completed a year long graduate internship with a state required minimum number of hours of group, family, and individual counseling sessions. They are allowed to practice independently with supervision, similar to a medical residency while they earn their hours towards becoming fully licensed.