Mental health awareness has been growing in recent times and it seems ads for online therapy services are everywhere you turn. While it is becoming more socially acceptable to attend therapy, and the proliferation of teletherapy services has increased, it can be hard...
Life Transitions & Self-Improvement
The Challenges of Leadership
Over the decades of working with people from a variety of industries, I’ve heard countless stories and accounts of tense, challenging or plain miserable work conditions stemming from ineffective, poorly trained, unsupportive or just bad leadership. It's an...
Choosing Between Small Group Psychotherapy Practices and Large Online Therapist Networks: Pros and Cons of Each
If you’re considering starting therapy, how do you know where to begin? Do you start looking through your health insurance directory to pick a provider's name at random from a long list? Do you ask your friends or colleagues for a confidential referral? Do you turn to...
Understanding, Naming and Setting Boundaries in Our Relationship with Ourselves and Others
There’s a lot of buzz out there about boundaries. “Boundaries” seems to be the latest catchall and code word for “how to be a healthy functioning human being and have healthy functioning relationships.” But what are boundaries really? What do boundaries refer to? And...
OMG You’re Getting a Divorce? Considerations and Guidelines for Sharing About Your Decision to Divorce
People don't usually enter into a marriage while thinking about how it will end. So when the time comes to decide to end a marriage, the partners involved usually find themselves at a place so very different from where they were when they first started. And the time...
Exploring the Role of Creativity and Somatics in Mental Wellness
Two elements that are essential for an overall sense of mental wellness relate to how we harness our innate capacity for creativity and how we engage in somatic healing practices. Let's look at each one separately and then how they are synergistically interconnected. ...