How to Change Your Teen’s Behavior

Your kid is sneaking out so you give them a stricter curfew.  Your kid is drinking so you tell them they can’t hang out with certain friends.  Your teen is always with their romantic partner so you put limits around how much they can be around them.  Your teen uses...

Responding to School Shootings: an Opinion

It has been two days since the STEM Academy shooting crisis, and I am still beside myself.  The grief of the community and the somberness of this week hangs over everything. I want to validate that this is appropriate.  This was a senseless act of violence that...

Practical Dating Advice

As I have been in private practice, I have realized how few people get good ground rules for dating.  I have decided to pass along some of the dating advice I have received over the years that has greatly eased much of my own anxiety around dating. Most of this advice...

The Problem with Pathologizing

I hear more and more people describing experiences and narratives of sadness or heightened stress as depression and anxiety.  While anxiety can get away with being a term used to describe a feeling of nervousness, depression, in my opinion, is a much more...

Self-Care: a Personal Experience

Counselors need self-care too. Let’s not kid ourselves. Every healthcare professional is still human even if we try not to act like we still have those limitations. If you are an avid reader of mine, you have noticed that I have not posted in a while. That is because...