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What is Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) and How Does it Help Neutralize Trauma and Stress?
First things first, what is Neuro Emotional Technique (NET)? Maybe you’ve heard of it and want to learn more or maybe this is your first...

Alex Steiner, LCSW


The Most Essential Steps to Navigating the Holidays in the Midst of the Pandemic
The holidays are meant to be a source of connection, peace, and joy. They also tend to drag along with them noteworthy stress, anxiety...

Jordan Zipkin, LMFT


The Gift of Silence, Stillness, and Solitude
Overbooked schedules, stressful routines, never-ending demands to maintain a “dynamic” life amid a World Pandemic, you feel like you have...

Sabrina Simmons, LMHC


Decreasing Anxiety in Teens Using Narrative Therapy
One of the most transformative moments in the life of a teen is when they realize that inside them, they already have all the strength...

Alexa von Oertzen, LMFT


Break Up Recovery - Tips to Help Us Move On
A break-up is a certain type of pain. Heartbreak is hard to define as it’s not always the same for everyone. But it’s real, and it’s...

Jamie Ratowski, LMFT


The Most Essential Steps to Coping with an Addicted Partner
When you come home to your partner, you feel scared. You don’t know which version you’re going to encounter: the calm, sweet...

Jordan Zipkin, LMFT


Causes and Cures for Commitment Phobia
Most of us have at least heard of a phobia, if not have one of our own. A phobia is an extreme anxious behavior or...

Jamie Ratowski, LMFT


How Therapeutic Yoga Can Improve Your Emotional Well-Being
In general, yoga has been found to improve physical fitness, flexibility, balance, strength, sleep, attention, and cognitive functioning. Yo

Dr. Heather Violante, PsyD


Why Are We So Negative?
Negative thoughts come from our brain’s instinct to survive. Our brains are always trying to make sense of the world and processing things a

Jackie Schwartz, LMFT


My Childhood Was Not Great. Now What?
As children, we depend on adults (particularly our caregivers) to consistently support, nurture, and protect us. When they do, we’re more li

Jordan Zipkin, LMFT


How to take an active role in strengthening your mind-body connection
Hi, my name is Sheilah Ledesma and today I want to discuss ways to strengthen your mind-body connection. The mind-body connection is the rel

Sheilah Ledesma, LCSW


6 Tips to Enhance Your Emotional Health Postpartum
What if I told you that there were things you could do to bolster your mental health postpartum? Oftentimes I hear women speak about Postpar

Dr. Alex Gard, DMFT, LMFT, PMH-C


How women can avoid shame in pregnancy and postpartum
As a woman, and as a therapist that specializes in women’s health, I thought I knew what to expect in pregnancy and the postpartum period. I

Dr. Alex Gard, DMFT, LMFT, PMH-C


How to understand and overcome the impact of trauma on our bodies.
Our bodies respond to trauma, or any negative experience that impacts us, in several ways. These responses are our bodies best attempt to h

Jordan Zipkin, LMFT


Your Brain on Trauma
When we endure considerable pain, or trauma, our brains change. They do this to attempt to shield us from further suffering.
The bad news

Jordan Zipkin, LMFT
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