Blog Post: What I want to remember when I become a mother, a child therapist’s perspective Part 1
What a lot of people who are close to me know is that I am currently pregnant and excitedly, nervously expecting our first child.
Revisiting Top Quotes for Times of Transition, Change, and Struggle
As I contemplated what to blog about this week, I was thinking about how two years ago, I had also recently moved my office…
Teens and Motivation Part 3
We can’t discuss how to motivate teens without looking a bit more at what motivation actually is. In our culture, we often think of motivation as something that is a static, ongoing state. People are often described as being motivated, or not…
Teens and Motivation Part 2
Hopefully many of you were able to check out last weeks’ post, which is the Part 1 of this series on Teens and Motivation. Today, I am going to focus on the building blocks of motivation that I briefly mentioned last…
Teens and Motivation Part One
What I hear most often from parents of the teens with whom I work is complaints about why their teen is not motivated to do the things that they want them to do. Why are they spending all their time on YouTube instead of homework? Why are their social relationships so much more important to…
Parenting with Intention Workshop at Thrive
Thrive is excited to announce our first Parenting Workshop will be starting on Wednesday April 19th from 6:30-8:00. It will be a 5 week workshop where parents will learn practical strategies to parent…
8 Tips on How Parents Can Make Their Child’s Therapy More Effective
Parents who call Thrive are often feeling desperately in need of support for their family, their child or teen, and often themselves. While the issues they are…
5 Tips to Help Prepare your Child/Teen to Start Therapy
One of the most common challenges parents talk with me about is not necessarily recognizing that their child or teen might benefit from therapy, but how to talk with the child or teen about attending…
Why Choose Thrive? By: Erica
In starting Thrive Therapy Studio, my mission was to expand my practice in order to be able to touch more lives both through helping more people and training more therapists in the style of therapy I believe to be most effective. The first step in this process…
5 Strategies to Cope with Difficult Emotions by Erica
Recently, I was discussing emotions with a friend not in the mental health space and realized that the topic of “numbing or avoiding emotions” comes up frequently both at work as well as in my personal life.