Mental Health Archives

Stigma Has No Place In Mental Health

Where does it hurt? That’s the question so many children need to be asked. While one in five children experience a mental health condition in… Continue Reading

Restore Human Dignity: Feldenkrais For Children With Special Needs

By Jutta Brettschneider, GCFP

Your child is born and there is joy, maybe some fear about doing it right and lots of expectations. Then you get the news: your… Continue Reading

PTSD In Babies

By Lynn L. West, PhDc, BCETS, LCPC

When Blaise was 3 1/2 years old, he was physically coordinated, emotionally even, outgoing, friendly, and curious. He especially enjoyed playing with toys and games… Continue Reading

Feeling Inferior

By Linda Ritchie, PhD

“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken” – Oscar Wilde Feeling inferior is intrinsic to low self-esteem. It comes from comparing yourself to others and… Continue Reading

How To Create Believable Self-Talk

By Linda Ritchie, PhD

“I like the idea that I create my own supportive self-talk that serves to support me in achieving the life I want.” For years now,… Continue Reading

The ABCs Of Trauma

By Shirelle Wright, MSW, Contract Therapist

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and… Continue Reading

According to recent groundbreaking neuroscience research, neuropsychiatric disorders are evidenced through symptoms of brain cell syndromes involving the whole brain, versus diseases that are geographically… Continue Reading

Need Help Communicating With Your Partner? Three Tips For Communication That Connects You and Your Partner

By Kathleen Stark, LMSW

The most common compliant couples have when they come to therapy is by far the same: We can’t communicate. The truth is, communication is not… Continue Reading