posted: May 24, 2023.

Make room for feelings. I just got back from my last child's college graduation.  It was not easy.  Kids drink and party and get exhausted.  They are scared.  Social media is Read more

posted: Mar. 28, 2023.

How do you get unstuck from feeling like you're underwater?   In this world of mass home-grown gun violence that terrorizes our own children, whom clearly we value less than the Read more

posted: Feb. 13, 2023.

INTRO: Courtney was the kind of 10th grade client that I completely enjoyed.  She was cute, clever and motivated. So when she began to have an issue that ballooned into a Read more

posted: Dec. 15, 2022.

What is going on here? People are still: tired, cold, burnt-out, lonely, stressed, bored, stuck and unmotivated.  Kids.  Especially teens.  But they're back at school.  Why OH Why is this holiday Read more

posted: Mar. 13, 2022.

      By now we've discussed pandemic fatigue, languishing, anxiety, lack of services, suicide rates, social media, FOMO, triggers, fake news, school shootings, a former narcissistic, toxic, grandiose and 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: 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: 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