Psychoeducation

September is National Recovery Month Recovery month is intended to promote the idea that recovery in all its forms is possible and to celebrate the gains made by those in recovery. Although the idea of recovery was initially reserved for discussions of substance use disorders,…

September is National Suicide Prevention month. It’s is intended to highlight efforts at suicide prevention and reduce the stigma around talking about suicide, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), suicide remains the 11th leading cause of death in…

In honor of it being National Suicide Prevention Awareness I would like to remind everyone that gender affirming health care is suicide prevention. Being kind, loving and compassionate to others, even when we don’t understand their journey or agree with their choices is suicide prevention.…

I do a lot of parts work with my clients and I have done that work on myself as well. And to help normalize this work I want to share some parts stuff that comes up in my life. These days I find myself thinking…

I’m taking a training called the Neurobiology of Parts Work presented by Juliane Taylor Shore, LFMT, LPC, SEP. Parts work in therapy is a way of working with people in which we assume that each of us has different parts of self, of our minds,…

Negative childhood beliefs tend to stick around into adulthood is because our brains tend to be able to recall only information or memories that fit with our current belief system. This is confirmation bias. If I already believe that I am a worthless person due…