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Understanding the Impact of Trauma on Children

By Viviana Villalobos, LPC Trauma affects a person’s outlook on life, how they view the world and, most importantly, how they view themselves. Reactions to trauma can affect our daily life and impact our ability to function and interactions with others. Understanding how trauma can impact children can help parents to better understand their child…
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Is it Stress, Anxiety or Burnout?

by Beth Granet, PsyD Over the last two years, it has been a common experience for us to acknowledge that we have all had to handle a bit of extra stress. This includes plans being changed or canceled, kids remaining home from school, fears of getting sick, and shifts in our day-to-day routines. Although we…
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What Is Your Love Language?

By Liza Ibrahim, LPC Communication is a huge component of any relationship and there are so many ways in which we express ourselves, including emotionally, physically and so many others. The concept of “love languages,” as described by Gary Chapman in his book, “The Five Love Languages,” focuses on how we all have a personalized…
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Honoring Those Who Have Passed as We Approach the New Year

By Rebeca Alcantara, LAMFT The holidays are often characterized by joy and celebration. Family and friends make plans to gather together during the last weeks of the year. Missing our late loved ones may bring conflicting emotions when others expect us to be bursting with delight. The holidays are a time when we are even…
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Managing Challenging Family Dynamics During the Holiday Season

By Viviana Villalobos, LP As the holidays quickly approach some people look forward to spending time with loved ones, while others struggle with challenging family dynamics and the ever-evolving relationships with various family members. So, what can you do this holiday season to navigate this? Plenty. Put yourself in the driver’s seat You have the…
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Recognizing Common Cognitive Distortions

By Liza Ibrahim, LPC The human mind is an incredibly powerful machine. Because of it, we can take in new information, store it, and connect it with other information to create new ideas. Although the human mind is amazingly efficient in so many ways, it can also lack in others. Cognitive distortions are irrational or…
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Our Physical Health during the Pandemic

By Viviana Villalobos, LPC March 2020 will be remembered as the month when the world shut down due to a global pandemic that stopped all that was known as “normal.” We all developed our own coping mechanisms for the sudden, and then ongoing, restrictions placed on our everyday lives that were all put into place…
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Becoming a Mom during the Pandemic

By Viviana Villalobos, PsyD, LPC Becoming a parent can be one of the most exciting and terrifying moments of your life. Bringing home a newborn and learning how to manage your life and care for this tiny human can be overwhelming. We are told to rely on our “village” to help us during the “dark…
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The Return To “Normal”

By Liza Ibrahim, LPC Back to school? Back to work? Back to a “normal” routine? The transition from virtual to in-person routines can create some feelings of anxiety and worry, especially for children and adolescents returning to school. More than a year into the pandemic, people have become accustomed to the lives they’ve built and…
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Springtime and Cultivating Hope

by Beth Granet, PsyD The spring season has arrived, the weather is changing, and there seems to be an air of cautious optimism. Despite recently acknowledging the one-year anniversary of navigating a global pandemic, the inception of vaccinations and reduction in overall case numbers remains promising. Spring itself represents renewal, growth, and hope and perhaps…
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Self-Care for the Caregiver

By Connor Wills M.Ed, LAC As we approach the surreal one year milestone since the Covid-19 pandemic began, many emotions undoubtedly rise about how the last twelve months have felt both personally and for those we care about. From grief and loss to stress and anxiety, change and growth, the past year has been transformative…
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Establishing Healthy Relationships

by Beth Granet, PsyD Relationships can come in many forms whether they be familial, romantic, friendly, or collegial. As people, we are set apart from other animals by our ability to form meaningful relationships, rely on others, and contribute to a community. We choose the level of investment we want to make in people such…
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