posted: Feb. 07, 2022.

Let’s get rid of it.  The hook-up culture. I don’t know when it started. But let’s stop it. I’m guessing it began as a feminist thing. We want casual sex Read more

posted: Jan. 01, 2022.

     As we enter this third year of pandemic madness (which I thought was going to be over in two weeks), I managed to work constantly while staying in Read more

posted: Dec. 11, 2021.

PHOTO CREDIT: Jennie Carr My phone rings three times a day with the same message: my teenage (daughter) needs someone to talk to.  I try to be my usual calm self. Read more

posted: Dec. 05, 2021.

Three weeks ago a former patient contacted me because she had suddenly recalled an episode from her past, so long ago it was nearly forgotten.  She wanted to sort it Read more

posted: Oct. 10, 2021.

**PHOTO CREDIT: AUDRA AVIZIENIS What is the latest on teens and mental health? How about the NY Times Expose on Instagram being bad for girls' mental health. Shocker alert!!!  Anyone who lives Read more

posted: Jul. 15, 2021.

     When my books flooded I was of course devastated.  Most of these I have duplicated on my kindle already.  But who can read anymore?  Lack of concentration, old Read more

posted: May 29, 2021.

Post Pandemic Teens: My landscaper said, after this the kids are "spiritually bankrupt."  He's right you know. There are a lot of kids and adults who are scared to leave the Read more

posted: Mar. 06, 2021.

Really it's so bad. Teens are in trouble. The teens in my group are laughing and screaming, alone in their rooms or wandering in cars or sitting on zoom-homework or Read more

posted: Dec. 25, 2020.

I studied family therapy for many years. Then I studied working with teens. Then I studied trauma. So when I got a new case that had all three I thought, Read more

posted: Nov. 10, 2020.

***Photo Credit: Rebecca Weston Corona Times Every day my phone rings, a parent calling for their 13 yo daughter with depression; or a young adult asking about therapy for isolation/anxiety.  What is Read more

posted: Sep. 29, 2020.

**photo credit: Rosalind Bank I get it, you get it.  For me it only started when my kids began driving.  While I'm sitting in my peaceful suburban bubble working away, the Read more

posted: Sep. 17, 2020.

I kept away from trauma treatment for a long time; I thought it would make me depressed. Yet now that we're in a pandemic, I decided to dive in.  More and Read more

posted: Sep. 02, 2020.

Several of my clients were talking about change.  Hard to leave college.  Hard to make friends.  Hard to find a job, live at home and not know what you want Read more

posted: Sep. 02, 2020.

Photo credit: Rosalind Bank It occurred to me the other day that I was laughing with a client because I completely and utterly understood where she was coming from. And then Read more

posted: Aug. 24, 2020.

     My adolescent clients have been coming in with terrible angst. They are triggered and tested to death. Kids say that school has no meaning because all professors do Read more

posted: Aug. 12, 2020.

     Photo credt: Rosalind Bank Many therapists have "branded" their practices: Winding Road, Finding Yourself, Path to Fulfillment, Thoughtful Change, etc. etc. Nice, calm and creative names. They have a Read more