The conversation around mental health has been growing over the last decade. With that, we have a better understanding of children’s mental health, and how important it is to foster healthy mental wellbeing for children. As parents, there is a lot to take on when raising children. With the growing noise of social media, opinions about how to take care of children are louder than ever, especially when it comes to the topic of mental health. The goal of this blog post is to give you a therapeutic view on how to support your children’s mental health. 

When looking for a therapist that can help you with trauma, one of the most important factors is finding a therapist who you connect well with who also has experience supporting individuals through trauma work.. We are going to dive into what that means, how to find a trauma informed therapist, and how to know if they’re the right fit!

Social anxiety is defined as difficulty interacting with others or going out in public spaces without undue distress. Social anxiety is difficult because it can affect our ability to complete necessary tasks such as going to work or hanging out with friends. Here are 4 practical tips for moving through social anxiety.

For people with experiences of trauma, healing becomes a priority as trauma can impact our daily lives. While working through trauma it is important to know that healing isn’t linear. 

What is trauma?

Trauma is an event (or multiple events) that affect the way your brain and body respond to the world around you. This can be caused from various experiences:

• A significant event 

• A prolonged series of events 

• Watching harm happen

Generalized Anxiety Disorder is among the most common mental health diagnoses in the US, however it can be difficult to know the best treatment path since each individual can have a different presentation of anxiety. Resilience is a skill of being able to return to the level you were at before an activating event happened. When we look at anxiety treatment it is important to consider resilience as an asset in anxiety treatment.

Resilience is a skill we can build up by using different tools, so we are going to look at a helpful set of instructions on how to build patterns of resilience to use with anxiety. This, along with the support of a therapist, can help build some skills to help us when anxiety comes through in our lives.

We are quickly approaching the time of year where people take time off to go on vacation. For some that means solo trips, for others that means a trip with friends, and for many people that means family vacation. While family vacation can be fun, it is important to know how to incorporate self-care into your family vacation to help your overall mental health. Some people may need more or less of this time and dedicated self-care activities, depending on their family dynamic.

The term SAD is an acronym for Seasonal Affective Disorder.

SAD is a condition where a person experiences depression that coincides with seasonal changes, most commonly during the shift from fall into winter. As we dive deeper into March, we approach the spring season, which for some means that they are nearing the end of their experience of SAD. For others, this actually could mean the beginning of SAD. While SAD is most common in the fall and winter, some people may experience SAD in the spring and summer as well. With that, some of the commonly seen symptoms between these two presentations are slightly different.

An eating disorder occurs when an individual has difficulties due to distorted beliefs around food, body image, and weight. This leads to unhealthy behaviors around things like food and weight. There are multiple different types of eating disorders and these conditions do not look the same from person to person. These conditions can often go misdiagnosed due to many eating patterns being misunderstood, hidden or disguised.