by [email protected] | Nov 16, 2022 | Blog
Home is the foundation of a healthy life, including mental health… …and no other instrumentality (therapy or social services) can take its place nor fulfill its essential functions. Many professionals in the mental health field provide services for youth...
by [email protected] | Nov 11, 2022 | Blog
AND CHALLENGES CHANGE US It is true we grow from meeting the challenge and many live for the adventure that accompanies change, but there are those who are quickly overwhelmed when their expectations are met with surprise. Even those who like to be astonished...
by [email protected] | Oct 14, 2022 | Blog
A New Approach to Helping Others In the early 1970s, cognitive psychologist George Kelly developed the idea of expectancy, which posits that WE TEND TO GET MORE OF WHAT WE FOCUS ON. This theory has important implications for those of us in the helping...
by [email protected] | Oct 7, 2022 | Blog
From Adversity to Asset-Based Thinking THE FIELD OF COUNSELING IS SHIFTING. For too long, the focus has been on what is wrong with the client. This deficit-based thinking has served to pathologize clients and label them as damaged goods. However, a new movement...
by [email protected] | Sep 24, 2022 | Blog
Trauma, toxic stress, and histories of adversity all have this in common, they are directly linked to a person’s physiology and at the center are stress biochemical hormones like cortisol, adrenaline, noradrenaline, and testosterone. Our hormones are an essential...
