Can we take a moment to collectively acknowledge how hard this is right now? With everything going on, we need people more than …

Shortly after completing my Mindful Grounding Activity Card deck, I had an idea for a deck of visual emotion cards, each card containing an evocative …

Healthy groups allow every member to express their individuality without that difference being seen by other group members as a threat. That’s differentiation. In a …

Last month, my patrons helped me collaborate on creating this new resource: a pizza-themed feelings wheel for kids. Via the Patreon community, Patrons got early …

This simple illustration is meant to be a visual representation of something that can be kind of hard to understand about therapy: it’s okay to …

If you aren’t naming and breaking the cycles that have entangled you, you are participating in them. This is true in most systems we are …

Trauma Therapy Even as someone who has studied trauma therapy for years, I often find it difficult to describe just how trauma therapy works and …

It’s not always this simple, but *sometimes* it is: shifts in how we respond to intrusive thoughts from PTSD or anxiety can shape our internal …

None of us really know what it looks like to survive and thrive beyond a global pandemic. Thankfully, past government funding for research about disaster …

  Instead of questioning (“How could you?”) or punishing (“How dare you!”) look for the entry point for empathy (“Oh, of course you…”). When someone …

In the past, most of my artwork was translating research studies and book chapters into visual sketchnotes. Even though I’ve mostly moved away from that …

When our sense of self depends on being “right,” challenging information from opposing viewpoints is often seen as a threat. Instead of being able to …

Group Therapy Sketchnotes In graduate school, I had the privilege of learning under instructors who were mostly very receptive to the idea that not all …

Below is a sketchnote created from the text of an article titled “Nothing to Add: A Challenge to White Silence in Racial Discussions” by Robin …

This three-piece worksheet is an adapted excerpt from my COVID Kid’s Activity Book. This bundle includes two worksheets, with three pages total. The Feeling Forecast …

Magical thinking is a normal phase in childhood in which we think that our thoughts – or totally random, unrelated events – can change the …

Most of us are more than a little concerned about the mental health of the kiddos that we care about during this pandemic. The natural …