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What To Look For in a Teen Therapist
If your teen is having a difficult time, it may help to take him or her to a therapist for teen counseling. It can be scary to start the process and find someone to help support your teen. Here are…
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Can Neurofeedback Help Your Child or Teen
What is Neurofeedback? Neurofeedback is a type of biofeedback that focuses on the brain’s electrical activity. During the process of neurofeedback, sensors are used to monitor brainwave patterns, and the information is fed back to the individual in real time…
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Teen Anxiety: Tips for Parents
If your teen has been struggling with anxiety lately, you can feel a little hopeless when it comes to helping them. It’s been found that nearly 1 in 3 teens will experience an anxiety disorder. The adolescent teen years can…
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Motivating your Unmotivated Teen
Parenting, teen and frustration…. words that are commonly used in the same sentence. So you have an unmotivated teenager at home who you might refer to as lazy. You tell your friends how they won’t get out of bed, won’t…
Read MoreIs Technology Changing The Way We Need To Parent?
I’m feeling old….when I first started seeing clients I did not have a cell phone, social media didn’t exist, life was different! Over the last 15 years technology has evolved so rapidly the teens I work with are the only…
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Can Technology Use Impact Mental Health?
People often ask me my opinion about how much technology children and teens should have access to, so I decided to write a post about it. According to an article I just read (see link below), the risk for an…
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4 Tips to Parenting Teens!
The teenage years are some of the most confusing, difficult phases parents will experience with their children. Trying to navigate fluctuating moods can feel like you are on a roller coaster, leaving you utterly confused. Now let’s add the uncharted…
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The Extroverted Parent with An Introverted Child
Last week I wrote a blog about parenting when you are an introvert and you have a child who is an extrovert. For those of you who missed that post, let’s redefine introversion/extroversion. Introverts recharge and gain energy through spending…
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Extrovert or Introvert: What Is The Impact on Your Family?
Have you ever thought about the impact of either being an introvert or an extrovert on your family relationships? Introverts recharge and gain energy through spending time alone. Extroverts recharge and gain energy when in the company of others. When…
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Summer Fun
My kids’ last day of school before summer break is May 19th. At the beginning of summer we always create a list of all the “Summer Fun” we want to have. Regardless of whether you have kids or not, I…
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Child & Teen Counseling: 3 Ways Counseling Can Help
If you are a parent you know how tricky raising kids can be! They definitely do not come with a manual describing the best way to parent them. Inevitably our kids go through difficult times. Sometimes they snap right out…
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Parenting Reminder: Your Kids Are Watching!
Parenting is the most important job there is! If you are a parent, you are your child’s first and most important teacher! When our children were babies we taught them how to talk, how to walk, and how to eat. …
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I Can’t Stand My Kid’s Friends!
Through the years I have worked with many families where friendships are a hot topic. Parents see behaviors in their child’s friends that worry them. They want to keep their kids safe and they want their kids to make good…
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