In this blog, I discuss 7 simple ways to shift your mood. These can be daily practices to help navigate the stresses of everyday life. Intention setting, setting realistic expectations, practicing getting centered, and changing your mindset are among some of the small shifts with big returns. Pracitcing rituals that keep us grounded and intentional through the day can uplift our moods and shift our attitudes.

Navigating stress has become a daily part of life. Here are 4 lifestyle changes you can shift to support yourself and your body in reducing the negative impacts of stress. A holistic approach to psychotherapy lends itself to seeing each individual as already whole. Certain parts of ourselves can be in distress and this is where therapy comes in. Holistic psychotherapy has an emphasis on the union of mind, body, and spirit.

Ever wonder if stress and anxiety were the same things? In this blog, I talk about what stress is, what happens in the body as a result of stress, the difference between stress and anxiety, and identify some coping skills to reduce stress. Stress is all about a person’s perception of an external cue being threatening, it does not have to be rational or logical for to body to innately respond as if a person is truly in danger.

The hype on Coronavirus is real and it is hard to know what to believe from the media. Here are seven small actions to help reduce COVID-19 phobia and Coronavirus anxiety. It is the little steps that add up to huge gains, read the blog to get some support on your reduce your worry about COVID-19 and to help others do the same.

Have you ever wondered about joining a psychotherapy group only to conclude it is probably not for you? In this blog, I highlight just five (there are many more) reasons to pull the trigger and join a therapy group today. We all need practice with identifying, expressing and articulating ourselves and our experiences. Group therapy can not only improve our insights about ourselves, it can improve our relationship skills overall.

What is shame? How can I identify when I experience shame? What to do with chronic shame? In this article, I cover this question and share 10 actions steps to deal with shame and provide some coaching on how to move through past shame that influence present enjoyment in life.

It is not WHAT you worry about, it is about HOW you worry!

In this blog, I discussed the common tendencies toward worry that people with generalized anxiety disorder share, different underlying beliefs impacting your anxiety and anxiety symptoms and different ways to reduce anxiety and anxiety symptoms through cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT.)

Here are five spiritual practices that support positive mental and emotional health. These are accessible to anyone, available at all times and completely free. Take what resonates with you, leave the rest.

Do you find it hard to articulate or ever know what you are wanting and needing from your close relationships. Here I have outlined the 6 top emotional needs, how to identify an unmet and how to verbalize those needs to a loved one.

Do you that you have a history of emotional outbursts or find it hard to ground yourself in triggering and stressful situations? Me too. Here, I have outlined Marsha Linehan’s distress tolerance skills, from her DBT work, to provide some coping strategies to help with emotional overwhelm or strong negative feelings.

Are you worried about a friend or loved one who may be depressed? Wondering how to help someone who is depressed? Check out these five ways to support your hurting loved one today.

Therapy is a dynamic process that can some times lead us to question whether we see the effects of therapy in our lives. Ultimately, the impacts of therapy compound, and when a person changes inwardly, the outward shifts can be profound.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of psychotherapy that helps integrate unprocessed memories that may otherwise be stuck and are causing suffering in the present-

Complex trauma occurs when multiple traumatic experiences are sustained over time, and it is difficult to differentiate the effects from one trauma to another.