Admitting you need help to get through a difficult time can be a major decision. If the decision is made as a couple, the decision can have additional implications as you and your partner decide to see a therapist. Even as this first step may come with some anxiety, seeking therapy is an intentional decision to initiate change and hope in your relationship. Such courage and maturity should be supported by a compassionate and experienced professional.

As a parent, you want to find ways to connect with your children. A natural connection grows as you accompany your child through the stages of childhood and toward adolescence. However, you may eventually reach a point where many parents struggle to connect with their child: the teenage years!

By Sylvia Beligotti, MA

With the wonderful spring weather, many are feeling inspired to start or improve their fitness routine. There are many reasons you may want to start exercising, and nearly all of them are beneficial.

Perhaps you have a fitness goal in mind that you want to fulfill. Or maybe you want to find an exercise routine to improve your physical health. Have you ever considered, however, that finding an exercise routine may improve your mental health?

Emotions are an inevitable part of our lives. Most of us enjoy the ones that feel good: happiness, excitement, satisfaction, and pride. The ones that aren’t quite as enjoyable: sadness, grief, anger, and disappointment, to name a few, can be a struggle to accept at times.

Moving in with your significant other might seem like a dream come true. You imagine that the two of you will make delicious Sunday morning pancakes together, have endless cuddly movie nights, and maybe even adopt an adorable dog.

After all, what could be better than living with the person you love most and waking up to their smile every day? The decision to take the leap and move in together is not one to rush into, take some time and consider the impact on your relationship.

By Jim Duncan, MA

After a year of staying at home and quarantining due to COVID-19, many couples are getting restless. While the idea of staying in and doing nothing with your partner may have been exciting at first, the routine is starting to wear a little thin. Has the romance in your relationship plateaued? You aren’t the only one.

You did it! Your nest is officially empty. Decades of child-rearing at home have come to a close.

Is it what you thought it’d be? Are you and your partner free to lounge in each other’s arms all day in bed? Is your time together a second honeymoon, free of homework, carpools, and messy bathrooms?

Or is it kind of strange to be alone together in the clean quiet spaces, just the two of you, with few distractions and much less to say than you thought?

Don’t panic.

Have you ever felt you have some great goals — but you’re no closer to achieving them than when you started?

Perhaps you’ve lost the momentum that you felt when you first developed them. Now you feel stuck and don’t know where to begin.

What happened?

By Jim Duncan, MA

If you live with depression, anxiety, or both, perhaps you know that some of your feelings stem from things that other people did to hurt you in the past. Maybe you can pinpoint abusive parents, bullies, or demanding teachers whose behaviors crushed your soul and terrorized you.

By Sylvia Beligotti, MA

Many things may affect our mental health: stress, work, family or relationship issues, and a myriad of life transitions. Sometimes, however, mental health issues like depression or anxiety can manifest for seemingly no reason at all.

By Linda Ramsey, MA

Many of us have seen a shift in our daily lives since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Suddenly, most of our interactions have been happening solely online.

Several months later, we’re still in a similar position. With the holidays quickly approaching, you may be planning for a completely virtual season.

As we continue to move through the year, many of us are still adjusting to life in a pandemic. Through social distancing, we’ve found ways to stay safe as we slowly integrate back into normal activities. With the holidays rolling around, however, you may be uncertain about how to approach them.