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Adolescent Social Anxiety: Building Confidence and Fostering Connections
Understanding Social Anxiety in Teens | Social anxiety often manifests within school settings. Teens may feel a constant pressure to excel — from guardians, teachers, peers or themselves.
What happens in therapy?
If this is your first time seeking therapy, or you have had experience with mental health or addiction services in the past, our clinicians can assist you in finding the best path to achieving your goals.
Healthy relationships
Healthy relationships happen when two people commit to helping each other become the best version of themselves. Today, many of us are not in healthy relationships. The 50% divorce rate is a statistic most of us are familiar with.
How to build resilience to shame
It is no exaggeration to say that shame is a very painful emotion. Shame is often confused with guilt, but the two emotions are not the same. Guilt is usually associated with the feeling of remorse over something we've done or not done. Shame is different. Shame comes from a feeling or belief that …
Trauma bonding and abusive relationships
Faith Niece published an article on PsychologyEverywhere.com discussing trauma bonding and why people stay in abusive relationships. For example, an abuser physically or emotionally harms their partner and then becomes very affectionate in between incidents. From this pattern, the victim can come to …
Understanding depression
The low motivation typical of depression makes it especially hard to take care of yourself and pull yourself out of your slump. Fortunately, even small but consistent efforts toward recovery can yield a significant improvement to your symptoms quicker than you might expect. Key points Depression …
Inner child work: how your past affects your present and what you can do
We all carry unmet needs and pain from childhood. In some cases, that wound to our inner child could be the result of trauma, abuse, or abandonment. In other cases, the source of the pain may be more subtle – experiencing unmet emotional needs, the illness of a parent or sibling, growing up in a …