Understanding Government Benefits
If you or someone you love is facing a disability, an injury, or a sudden loss of income, the alphabet soup of public benefits can feel overwhelming. GA, SSI and…
Helping Your Child Navigate Back-to-School Anxiety
For many families, the start of a new school year brings a familiar mix of excitement and dread. New backpacks and fresh notebooks sit alongside restless nights, stomachaches, and tearful…
Helping Your Teen Build a Healthier Relationship with AI
If your teenager is using AI chatbots to help with homework, brainstorm ideas, or even just talk through their day, you're not alone in wondering what that means for their…
Loving Someone with a Severe Mental Illness: How to Set Boundaries Without Losing the Relationship
When someone you love is living with a severe and persistent mental illness — severe depression, Bipolar, Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective disorder, or complex trauma — the instinct to help can feel…
Shame, Fear, and the Path to Self-Compassion
Shame is one of the most powerful—and often most hidden—emotions people experience. Unlike guilt, which is tied to specific behaviors (“I did something wrong”), shame tends to shape identity (“There…
Navigating Mental Illness
When people are managing symptoms of mental illness, it can be difficult to know how to access care, what services are available to them, and how to advocate for their…
Parenting Styles
Parenting Goals Let’s face it, parenting is hard work! It can feel rewarding at times, and stressful at others! Most parents are overjoyed when their child is born, however, they…
New Year, New You!
New Year Goals With the recent arrival of 2024, many are identifying goals for the new year. Whether the goal is a lifestyle change—being more physically fit, cutting back or stopping…
Improving Executive Functioning Skills
Unlocking Your Executive Functions How good are you at time management, initiating difficult or boring tasks, maintaining concentration, recalling salient information, and prioritizing? Chances are, you are like most people, and…
Supporting Children Through Tragedy
Sadly, as you are well aware, there was another recent mass casualty at a school. While children, parents, teachers, the community, and our nation at large grapple to deal with this…