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**PHOTO CREDIT: AUDRA AVIZIENIS What is the latest on teens and mental health? How about the NY Times Expose on Instagram being bad for...

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...

Post Pandemic Teens: My landscaper said, after this the kids are "spiritually bankrupt."  He's right you know. There are a lot of kids...

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...

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...

***Photo Credit: Rebecca Weston Corona Times Every day my phone rings, a parent calling for their 13 yo daughter with depression; or a...

**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...

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...

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...

Photo credit: Rosalind Bank It occurred to me the other day that I was laughing with a client because I completely and utterly understood...

My adolescent clients have been coming in with terrible angst. They are triggered and tested to death. Kids say that school has no...

Photo credt: Rosalind Bank Many therapists have "branded" their practices: Winding Road, Finding Yourself, Path to Fulfillment,...

Photo Credit: Rosalind Bank Why should a therapist be smart, wise, empathic and CURIOUS?  Because we are dealing with individual lives....

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...

I am currently running three groups: teen girls, young adult women and 30-something women. The technology is the easy part. Zoom is...