Understanding Teenage Depression: How Parents Can Help Their Teens Overcome It As a parent raising teenage kids, you may be alarmed at the growing cases of teenage depression reported in the news.  Fortunately, there is help for teenage depression. Various studies have been done, with impressive success results. If you…

Is Your Teen Depressed? Here’s How You Can Help Them Excel Help Your Teen Visualize Their Future Once you have recognized the signs of teenage depression, one thing you can do to help your teen excel is to help them visualize their future. Because depression often causes people to become stuck…

5 Ways to helping your teen cope with Depression or Anxiety Open your ears and listen to them when they talk! Here is the thing about teenagers…They might not just come out and say what is bothering them. More than likely, you are going to have to stop and really…

All of us have experienced a morning where we've woken up on the wrong side of the bed from time to time, so to speak. A mood follows us all day and seems to taint all of our interactions and efforts. However, this mood eventually dissipates and we are back…

Military members are a lot of things…brave, discipline, selfless, ethically sound, strong…and hardheaded.  Yep I said it, HARDHEADED.  Let me explain, I critique service members from extreme familiarity, and I include myself in this critique.  Before becoming a therapist, I completed 15 years of honorable service in the United States…

Special shout out to all those newly appointed "homeschool teachers" for pre-teens out there. If you’re like me, you’re probably learning how to balance a career and household in the time of COVID. All while trying to help your middle-school-aged teens with schoolwork. Things you have either long forgotten how…

Wow. Every day, there are new grim statistics, rules on social interaction, more time stuck at home, and the post-apocalyptic run on toilet paper. Today, the coronavirus means a pretty scary reality for us both locally and globally. Fear is so much worse when coupled with uncertainty. That uncertainty is…

If there’s one thing this COVID-19 pandemic is doing, it's redefining our idea of normal.  Unless you are part of the workers who absolutely must physically go to your job to perform it (to which you have my highest degree of respect and gratitude), you’ve likely experienced some version of…

What is Independence? This may seem like an easy question, but what does it mean for each person? It is more complicated than simply being comfortable with being alone or being an assertive person. More than the need to not have to ask for help or having to rely on…