Have you ever known something logically—“I’m safe,” “I’m good enough,” “This situation isn’ta big deal”—but your body still reacts with anxiety, tension, or shutdown? This disconnectbetween what you know and what you feel is incredibly common, and it’s somethingcoherence therapy helps make sense of in...
As the new year has had time to settle in, and so have families and our lives, many of the problems and issues that were put on hold during the holidays seem to be creeping back in. The ebbs and flows of life take us...
From Overwhelmed to Empowered: Understanding Concern, Control & Influence One of the most common conversations I have with clients is about how to regain a sense of control over their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors when life feels like it’s spinning. To do that, I often...
Being okay with not being okay Sometimes I tell my clients that I wish I had a Staples easy button. I could just press it and make everything wrong in their lives start going right again, and it would be… well, easy. And for some...
We all grow up in a family system. What we might not always realize is that each of us assume a role in that system to make it “work.” This can be based on birth order, needs to manage specific relationships in the family or...
We have all been there – in our youth, as students, oversleeping and missing the bus for school. As adults, getting a flat tire that causes us to be late for work. These everyday moments are stressful, but when do daily stressors become cause for...
Recent decades have seen an increasing interest in the healing and therapeutic potential of nature and the perspective of various nature-based interventions for the benefit of mental health. The field of nature-based therapies is expanding in line with this interest. During the formative years of...
At somewhere around the age of 15, one weekend day I found myself in the house alone with my dad. As the roles in our house were very traditional, I was intrigued when I heard the unexpected sound of a broom. Finding this a bit...
There’s a difference between feeling comfortable and feeling safe. Safety is knowing that you are not going to be harmed physically or emotionally, and that is something that should always be expected and honored. Since becoming a therapist, I have found that the word comfortable,...