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…
Four Things I want to Remember as a First Time Mom
As many of you know, I have been writing for several weeks now about my thoughts on becoming a parent, from my experience as a child psychologist and parenting consultant. For this last blog in the series…
Four Things I want to Remember as a First Time Mom
Thank you so much for checking out my fourth and final blog in this series! As I mentioned before, this blog series is definitely more personal for me so I do hope that the thoughts that I am sharing are…
3 Easy Ways to Have an Amazing Summer with Your Kids/Teens
With summer starting up, I thought it might be helpful to talk a bit about how to have a wonderful summer with your kids, easily! There is so much pressure on parents to cultivate amazing experiences for their…
Sandplay, Healing Therapy for Children and Adults
The most basic building block of therapy is communication- our ability to talk with each other. So what does that mean for our kids? Children haven’t naturally developed the language to tell us what they have…
What I want to remember when I become a mother, a child therapist’s perspective, Part 3
Thank you so much for checking out my third blog in this series! As I mentioned before, this blog series is definitely more personal for…