SUPPORT & THERAPY BLOG

Having a baby can be an amazing, incredible experience full of joy and excitement. New parents coo and are in awe of their beautiful new baby. Before having children, many couples discuss theoretical situations as to how childcare will be managed, who will oversee what tasks, or how they want to handle various scenarios with their children. However, once the baby is born, emotions run high, lack of sleep makes decision-making almost impossible, and parents must adapt to their

Unfortunately, I often hear phrases like, “This may sound stupid , but…” or “I don’t know what’s wrong with me, I…” from my clients before they share their stories. This gives me insight into how people internally judge themselves and can be extremely self-critical. This voice can be loud, overwhelming, and downright awful. It happens to all of us, and it can come on rapidly without us noticing. Even as a clinician with years of working on my own negative self-talk, instin

After having my first child, I returned to work almost immediately once I was cleared to drive. At the time, I had just started my group practice, and I was under immense pressure to build the practice while nursing a newborn. When you run your own business, you don’t receive paid maternity leave, so there was a great deal of internal pressure for me to return to work. My husband wasn’t pushing me; it was entirely my drive and anxiety around running a business. This is not a

My first internship in Graduate School was at a school for kids with learning differences. When I began Graduate School, I knew that I wanted to work with teenagers and was thrilled to have the opportunity to work in a middle school. In Social Work school, you have an internship and an additional seminar where you discuss your internship and any transference or countertransference you experience. This is the notion that therapists will have feelings or experiences related to