Cultivating Body Acceptance in Eating Disorder Recovery

One of the first symptoms to show up (and unfortunately one of the last typically to go) in an eating disorder is significantly poor body image. Learning to nourish yourself more adequately and addressing the issues underlying and co-occurring with your eating...

The Best Communication Technique

    If I only had five minutes to change someone’s life, I would give them this DEARMAN tool.  A DEARMAN is a communication tool from dialectical behavior therapy which was designed by Marsha Linehan.1 It is a tool that helps us to connect and...

Benefits of Group Therapy

Whether you’ve been in group therapy before or not, there are good aspects of group work in counseling for you and others. Group therapy differs from 12-steps or lay led groups in the main regard that they are led by a therapist and incorporate aspects of...

Mental Health Guide for 4th of July

  Holidays are a time of frivolity and fun.  Perhaps none are quite like the Fourth of July where the warmth of the summer sun and backyard BBQ combine.  By continually celebrating our independence, we keep those history lessons in mind and want to...