Coping With Social Anxiety as Teen
High school years can be particularly difficult for kids with social anxiety. Students are under a lot of stress trying to cope with expectations, changing bodies, and meeting educational responsibilities.
What Is Social Anxiety
In social anxiety disorder, fear and anxiety lead to avoidance that can disrupt your life. Severe stress can affect your relationships, daily routines, work, school or other activities.
Staying Occupied
Rainy Day? Random Day off? It can be easy to spiral in anxiety, or even plain boredom when left to our own devices.
National PTSD Awareness Day
PTSD is a complex disorder that is often caused by experiencing or witnessing trauma
How to Support Your Teen as They Navigate Their Sexual Identity: Advice From an LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapist
If your teen has just come out to you, congratulations! This can be a difficult process for them, and it's great that they feel comfortable enough to talk to you.
Spending Time With The Family
Here are 9 simple things you can do with your family to help build connection, all from the comfort of home!
Finding an LGBTQ+ Affirming Counselor in Texas
It's already challenging to find a therapist. But it can be especially difficult when you're looking for a therapist as an LGBTQ+ person. Even more so in a more conservative state like Texas.
Quality Time With Your Teens
Spending quality time with our teenagers is vital not only to their development but also to your relationship with them overall.
Spending Time With Your Kids
Spending quality time with our children is vital to their development as humans.
Quality Time With Children
Quality time is spending time with your children and providing them your undivided attention as they engage in activities that they enjoy.
The Trevor Project
It’s important to understand that LGBTQ+ youth are not inherently prone to suicide risk because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, but because of how they are mistreated and stigmatized in society.
Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month
In June, Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month is held to raise awareness around Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
National Smile Day
It’s National Smile Day! Did you know that endorphins help you feel happy and relaxed?
It’s Okay to Ask For Help
We sometimes see what we are capable of, and don't want to let down the people around us. We may believe that if we do not do it, then nobody will. So, we task ourselves with doing everything that we can.
How to Help Your Teen Cope with Grief and Loss: Tips From a Grief Counselor
It's already tough being a teenager. You're trying to figure out who you are, what you want in life, and how to navigate the tricky waters of high school and social life. So when you add grief and loss into the mix, it can be overwhelming.
Understanding Socialization
It can be scary to think that your kids might be doing something you don’t understand— open communication can go a long way. You might be surprised by what you learn.
Supporting BPD
If you have a friend or family member who suffers from borderline personality disorder (BPD), you understand how stressful it can be. And you might be stumped as to how you can be of assistance.
Common Signs of BPD
With unpredictable emotions, relationships and a wavering sense of self-someone with Borderline Personality Disorder may often feel like they’re on a roller coaster.
Borderline Personality Disorder
It’s Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month. BPD is a widely misunderstood psychiatric disorder. Yet over 14 million people suffer from this disorder in the U.S only.