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As a therapist I am a holder of hope for my clients. I hold onto the hope that they can get better, that their lives and their futures can be brighter. I hold onto those hopes for them as they often cannot see it for…

Each person’s healing journey is unique and individual. If you want to support loved ones who are in therapy, or seeking health and wellness, it is best to not ask them if they are feeling better yet. While you may mean well, but many clients…

Growth and healing can be difficult and we all fall down in the process. But you have not learned to walk until you have also learned how to get back up when you fall. Just because you went through a rough patch, or a relapse,…

An understanding of dissociation in general, and Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) in particular is sorely lacking in the mental health field. Therefore, many therapists may think it is best to treat clients with DID, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, as if they don’t have…

This idea has never been more important or more relevant than in 2020. I know that we are all suffering from fatigue with the pandemic and many of us with the election and all the issues that come with it. I still have clients who…

This is a quote from Debra Wesselmann’s book The Whole Parent: How to become a terrific parent even if you didn’t have one and in it, she talks a lot about the intergenerational transmission of trauma. A common coping strategy used by people who have…