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.
Over the past 25 years, Spring Tree Counseling has provided individual and couple counseling on a wide array of issues and topics. From our original focus on anxiety, depression, and relational distress we’ve expanded to include specialties in child therapy, family therapy, EMDR, trauma care, and much more.
What inspired you to become a counselor? Like many others, I found my way into counseling on the other end of a very bad experience. I was left reeling, wondering what was going on. At the suggestion of several others, I finally enlisted the help...