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  • TEEN FAQ: What's Going on Here

    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
  • The Before Times

    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
  • Case Study in Normalcy - Where Did it Go?

    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
  • Depression in Young Adults - Time for Some Pandemic Soup

    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
  • Lets Talk About Panic

    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
  • TRAUMA - What is PTSD Therapy?

    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
  • Hook-Up Hell and Other Tales: A Year in the Life of a 20-Something Support Group

    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
  • A Personal History

    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
  • It's Not Contagious - How Teens Handle Stress

    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
  • Inhale Peace - What is MY Therapy Approach

    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
  • What Should a Therapist Be: CURIOUS!

    posted: Jul. 31, 2020.

    Photo Credit: Rosalind Bank Why should a therapist be smart, wise, empathic and CURIOUS?  Because we are dealing with individual lives. Lives that are part of the greater society. Lives that Read more
  • Don't Panic - Eight Tips for Calming Down ASAP

    posted: Jul. 21, 2020.

         We all know that panic is painful.  Uncomfortable.  Hard.  Scary.  All I have to do is get a scam call from the IRS and I'm jammed all day Read more
  • Where are we Going? - Groups in the Age of Despair

    posted: Jul. 13, 2020.

       I am currently running three groups: teen girls, young adult women and 30-something women. The technology is the easy part. Zoom is barely adequate to cover the range of Read more

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