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Life in the Time of a Pandemic: How to Stay Sane while Keeping Safe

March 13, 2020

anxiety counseling, coping patterns, depression therapy,

Until the past few days, I was feeling both very detached about the news continuing to overwhelm my inbox, and simultaneously feeling afraid. Over the past 48 hours, my response has began to change, as there seems to have been a national realization of the seriousness of the situation. Is it possible to at once avoid checking out or panicking? How can we meet this…

To Touch and Be Touched: Physical Connection and Mental Health

February 17, 2020

anxiety counseling, coping patterns, depression therapy, relationship challenges,

When you think of troublemaking middle schoolers, you might picture them doing things like smoking or talking back to adults. When I was in the 6thgrade, while those things were happening too, we often got in trouble for– wait for it – excessive hugging. That’s right, our school administrators had to reprimand us for being late to class because we were busy giving each other…

When Your Emotions Are “Too Hot”: Preparing For Hard Conversations

January 15, 2020

anxiety therapy, coping patterns, depression therapy, relationship challenges, , trauma therapy

Sometimes things come up in our relationships that we have to confront. This can be really heavy and scary, especially since most of us don’t enjoy conflict. Oftentimes, we either avoid it, perhaps indefinitely (like ghosting someone over text message) or, since we’re frightened of it, we try to get it over with as quickly as possible (like putting a wall up immediately, saying something…

Ending the Year with Confetti: Celebrating Our Wins

December 15, 2019

anxiety counseling, coping patterns, depression therapy, poor self-esteem, self-image,

I like to plan things and solve problems. These are great for a resume, but sometimes these attributes are surprisingly unhelpful. For example: recently, our team at Take Root Therapy put together holiday care packages for homeless folks in our neighborhood. Though the process of gathering supplies for care packages should be relatively simple, it became complicated in my mind very quickly. I didn’t want…

The S Word: Talking About Suicide

September 16, 2019

coping patterns, depression therapy, relationship challenges,

Because I’m a therapist, people often assume that I have it all together, or else that I’m a complete mess. I think (and hope) that I disprove both of these assumptions. I try to be candid about my limitations and my own mental health challenges, and have done a great deal of work in therapy to address both. I firmly believe that my experiences with…

No, You’re Weird: What if We Embrace Our Weirdness? An Exploration on Being Different

October 31, 2018

coping patterns, gender identity, poor self-esteem, self-image,

Feel weird? Out of place? Different? Well, you’re not alone. So many of us feel like we don’t belong, or like we’re outsiders looking in on a world where others seamlessly fit in. Does this sound familiar? Perhaps you’re at an event or a party and you look around and think, “I don’t belong here.” Or you’re meeting a group of people for the first…

The Power of Reaching Out: Showing Up for Others

June 14, 2018

depression therapy, , trauma therapy

With the recent sudden and shocking suicides of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade, there is a lot of talk around the power of reaching out to others and how it relates to mental health. These examples are extreme, as there’s nothing more grave than suicide, but I’ve noticed on television and in print the larger conversation around these two tragic deaths often conclude with advice…

social support

Life in the Time of a Pandemic: How to Stay Sane while Keeping Safe

To Touch and Be Touched: Physical Connection and Mental Health

When Your Emotions Are “Too Hot”: Preparing For Hard Conversations

Ending the Year with Confetti: Celebrating Our Wins

The S Word: Talking About Suicide

No, You’re Weird: What if We Embrace Our Weirdness? An Exploration on Being Different

The Power of Reaching Out: Showing Up for Others

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