Affordable Mental Health Counseling
Affordable Mental Health Counseling
Prioritizing your mental health is crucial, but concerns about affordability should never keep you from seeking counseling services.
Finding Peace for Anxiety
Finding Peace for Anxiety
When your brain is activated and the fight or flight response is triggered, it can be difficult to find a sense of peace, but these tips from a Therapist in Alpena can help
Counseling for Teens
Counseling for Teens
As a parent or guardian, you may have noticed changes in your teen’s behavior or mood. You love and care for them deeply, and want to find ways to help them get through any struggles they’re facing. Counseling for teens may be an option for you.
Dealing With Depression?: A Teen's Guide to Coping
Dealing With Depression?: A Teen's Guide to Coping
As a teen, navigating the ups and downs of life can be challenging. With added stresses such as schoolwork, social pressures, family expectations, and navigating friendships, it can be difficult to know how to cope with depression .
The Benefits of Mindfulness for Depression
The Benefits of Mindfulness for Depression
Depression affects around 14.8 million adults in the United States alone, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. It can feel overwhelming at times with symptoms of sadness, insomnia, fatigue, and other challenges.
5 Ways to Support the Highly Sensitive Teen in Your Life
5 Ways to Support the Highly Sensitive Teen in Your Life
You have a highly sensitive teen, and you want to help them navigate the landscape of their adolescent years. But they feel things more deeply and intensely than their peers, making it difficult to know how best to support them.
How to be a Supportive Partner to Someone Struggling With Depression
How to be a Supportive Partner to Someone Struggling With Depression
Your partner is struggling with depression , and you want to be there for them. It can be hard to know what to say or do when someone is struggling with their mental health.
How Online Therapy for Teens in Michigan can Help you Support Your Teen Struggling With Their Mental Health
How Online Therapy for Teens in Michigan can Help you Support Your Teen Struggling With Their Mental Health
As a parent or guardian, it can be difficult to help teens. You want the best for your teen and them to be healthy and happy. However, when it comes to your teen's mental health, it can be difficult to know how to help.
What CBT Teaches us About Anxiety Treatment in Michigan & Strategies to Cope
What CBT Teaches us About Anxiety Treatment in Michigan & Strategies to Cope
You have probably heard of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) before, but do you know what it is, and how it relates to anxiety? Perhaps your therapist has mentioned it to address your anxiety , or you’ve seen it recommended online.
The Relationship Between Trauma and Anxiety
The Relationship Between Trauma and Anxiety
It can often be confusing to understand why a situation in which you experienced trauma might lead to anxiety in the present. People don't always understand that trauma and anxiety can be intertwined, but there is a complex relationship between them.
Body-Positive Weight Management
Body-Positive Weight Management
Body positivity is a movement started by the idea that all human beings, regardless of their size, should feel good about themselves. Body positive advocates encourage others to celebrate their bodies and accept themselves the way they are.
Celebrating Gay Pride Month by Focusing on Mental Health
Celebrating Gay Pride Month by Focusing on Mental Health
June is gay pride month, a time when people come together to celebrate the freedom to be themselves. And while the dancing, partying and colorful festivities are a wonderful way to celebrate, it’s also a time to commit to being your best self.
Compasionate Parenting - Parenting Differences
Compasionate Parenting - Parenting Differences
It can be an incredible challenge for parents to mesh parenting styles when they have been raised within differing value systems, as many of us have been.
Compassionate Communication
Compassionate Communication
Most of us have experienced the frustration of not feeling heard and respected. It’s human nature that when we aren’t getting what we want, there can be a tendency to escalate to be heard.
Grief Self-Care for the Holidays
Grief Self-Care for the Holidays
Grief is one of the heart’s natural responses to loss. When we grieve we allow ourselves to feel the truth of our pain, the measure of betrayal or tragedy in our life.
Dancing With the Inner Critic
Dancing With the Inner Critic
The fact is, whether or not we are aware of it, we all have a constant stream of evaluations – of ourselves and others – going on in our heads. These thoughts usually reflect the ideas we have learned from our families, our friends, and our culture, and the values driving them reflect the same.
The Anatomy of a Binge
The Anatomy of a Binge
“Bingeing is such an emotionally frenetic activity that no other concerns can exist in the same space. It is a hell that people who are food-sensitive are familiar with…”*
A Compassionate Approach to Anger
A Compassionate Approach to Anger
I would like to share with you a simple three-step technique for beginning to understand and work skillfully and compassionately with the many layers of anger.
What is Disordered Eating and how can Therapy Help?
What is Disordered Eating and how can Therapy Help?
Disordered eating, also referred to as “eating disorders,” is a behavioral condition that is characterized by disturbances in eating behaviors. These behaviors are usually associated with distressing thoughts and emotional patterns
How to Deal with Social Anxiety in Grand Rapids, Michigan after COVID
How to Deal with Social Anxiety in Grand Rapids, Michigan after COVID
Lockdowns and social distancing have had a profound impact on our hearts and minds. But, as the vaccines roll out and the country begins to slowly open back up, we are beginning to return to some kind of normal.
Knowing When to end a Relationship
Knowing When to end a Relationship
It may be a friend, family member, or significant other. Regardless, any relationship comes with its share of challenges. But, more often than not, putting in the effort to resolve relational issues can and does result in healthier bonds.
Therapy for Divorce
Therapy for Divorce
When we say the words, “I do,” we never imagine that one day those words will turn into, “It’s over.” But the statistics point to the fact that many marriages do not make it. In fact, the CDC reports that 42% of marriages have a high probability of ending in divorce.
The Truth About Perfectionism
The Truth About Perfectionism
As human beings, we can never reach a state of perfection because we will always be a work in progress. Perfection indicates a finality – a finished product. But, we as humans are always growing and changing.