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Introduction to Therapy Series: 6 Reasons you should bring your child/teen to therapy:
Making the decision to start therapy for your child or teen is usually a pretty difficult one for parents riddled with concerns about…
Introduction to Therapy Series: 6 Reasons you should bring your child/teen to therapy:
Take a moment to think of the last interaction you had with your child that left you feeling uneasy, stressed, or helpless.
Why Burying Our Feelings Doesn’t Work
his blog post was inspired by one of my favorite cartoons that depicts a person burying a “bad” feeling, walking away feeling like it is gone forever, while the roots are clearly growing under the surface.
Becoming a Mother Blog: Redefining the word Surrender
So, anyone who is a frequent reader of our Thrive blog knows that I recently became a first time mom. Our son, Luca James, was born on 8/20/17 and we are just over the moon that he is a part of our family!
Thrive Team’s 5 Favorite Parenting Tips
We at Thrive thought it would be fun to share a joint blog from our team of therapists where we each share one of our favorite…
5 Ways Your Child Uses Behavior to Communicate
As a Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in children and teens, families often come to see me wanting help with specific behaviors that are happening…
5 After School Routine Tips
One of the most common questions parents have at my office is how to manage their afternoons once their kids are out of school. This is super understandable as parents want their kids to enjoy…
9 Back to School Tips
It’s so hard to believe that it is this time again, back to school! With some children returning as early as this week, I thought it would be helpful to do a quick blog talking about some tips I have picked up as a child…
The impact of dramatic language on our emotional experience
I recently was reading an article written by a woman who has been diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and she was reflecting on the #soOCD trend on Twitter and how reading about…
3 Ways Therapy Can Help Your Child/Teen During Divorce
At our office, we frequently work with children and teens whose families are going through a divorce. While we do not engage in any sort of custody recommendations and tend to stay out of court at our office…
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