What inspired you to become a counselor? I’ve always been deeply attuned to my emotions. In my early adolescent years, this often felt like a flaw. I believed I was “too sensitive” or easily affected by others and my environment. Over time, and through the...
Has the excitement of what’s to come with holiday fun come to an end? The tinsel gone dull and the lights hopelessly tangled? Or perhaps the residue of time with family members who tax and exhaust still linger? Or the sum total exhaustion of working...
You don’t need to be a therapist to notice it — the world feels loud right now. Not just in the obvious ways — honking traffic, kids crying, endless notifications, the hum of headlines — but in the quieter, subtler ones too. The never-ending to-do...
Neurologically, shame shuts down our capacity to be creative, and thus, our ability to see a bigger picture and explore new solutions. One way to adjust these shame-based thought patterns is to practice “mental noting.” Mental noting is a principle in Dialectal Behavioral Therapy (DBT) that helps us separate our judgements from our observations. This can be tricky, because our judgments are often implied and automatic.