Let's Talk Psychological Wellness·Oct 26ADHD Testing Doesn’t Give You a Label. It Gives You a MapPeople come in afraid of a verdict. What they leave with is something far more useful.
Emergent Counseling and Consulting·Oct 23Teen Phone Addiction and Black Mental Health: Why Your Teenager’s Screen Time May Be an Attachment…What looks like phone addiction in your teenager is often an attachment need wearing a disguise. The phone may be regulating a nervous…
Duluth counseling·Oct 23EMDR, ART and Brainspotting in DuluthAll three work with the nervous system rather than only with language. All three are used for trauma, but also for anxiety, panic, phobias…
The Couples Institute Counseling Services·Oct 23Brain differences and Relationships Series Part 3: Executive Function SupportsI’ve discussed how many of the differences associated with autism — and often ADHD as well — connect back to executive function: the brain…
Connectcounselingcenter·Oct 23The Curious Case of Being a Mom Who Happens to Be a Sex TherapistMotherhood comes with a strange set of unwritten rules. Somewhere between packing lunches, remembering spirit days, finding library books…
Let's Talk Psychological Wellness·Oct 7Why “Just Focus” Has Never Once Worked for YouIf focusing were simply a matter of focusing, you would have solved this years ago.
Soula·Sep 15Why does my anxiety get worse when I try to rest?You’ve been running all week. And finally, the weekend: a quiet evening, an actual window to stop. You sit down. You close the laptop. You…
Let's Talk Psychological Wellness·Sep 9The Quiet Cost of Being the Organized OneEveryone assumes you have it handled. That assumption may be the reason no one ever noticed how hard you were working to keep it that way.
Connectcounselingcenter·Sep 7We Need Better Sex Education (And No, I Don’t Mean Another Picture of an STD)Let’s be honest. For most of us, “sex education” consisted of three things: a horrifying slideshow of sexually transmitted infections, a…
Let's Talk Psychological Wellness·Aug 18What “Comprehensive ADHD Assessment” Actually MeansTwo people can both be told they have ADHD. Only one of them was actually assessed.