Anxiety

The best time to do good crisis work is when you (or your client, child, partner, friend, etc) aren’t currently in crisis. Take some time …

In the simplest terms: burnout occurs when the stress we experience exceeds our capacity to cope with that stress. While some individuals may be able …

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 …

This originally eight-part doodle on ways to manage mental-health highlights several research-backed adjunctive therapies for low mood and depressive symptoms. Before I had the opportunity …

Writing long-hand about my own experience in therapy helps me continue to develop self-awareness and integrate my emotional/sensory experience with my thinking-brain. Recently, I’ve been …

Everyone has a different “default” way of coping with anxiety- and many of us will experience a shift from one extreme to the other at …

  When kids are anxious, it’s human nature to want to soothe them. For kids with significant anxiety, however, we may need to monitor ourselves …

When you’re new to therapy and aren’t really sure what therapy is supposed to feel like, it can be really confusing to try and figure …

First, know that we therapists get it. Starting therapy is hard for everyone and if you have specific therapy-related anxieties it’s super hard. If meeting …

What is Anxiety? Anxiety is a feeling of worry or fear that sits in our mind and bodies. It is an alert system, telling us …

Some research shows that between 7% and 47% of teens self-harm, although the number of teens engaging in deliberate self-injury is, by some researcher estimates, …