Adult & Couples Therapy, Child & Adolescent Therapy, Mental Health
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and how can it help kids?
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a behavioral therapy that helps clients to sit with uncomfortable emotions and release attachments to maladaptive thought patterns. Originally ACT was created to help…
Adult & Couples Therapy, Child & Adolescent Therapy, Mental Health
Tips to Navigate Difficult Subjects like the War on Ukraine with Children
Russia’s attack on Ukraine has been a top story in the media across the globe, and the violent news can be difficult emotionally, even for adults. It may feel best…
Adult & Couples Therapy, Mental Health
Ask Our Experts: Ways to Actually Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions
New Year, new you? People have been making – and breaking – New Year’s resolutions since the birth of Father Time. So what does it take to make goals you…
Adult & Couples Therapy, Mental Health, Parenting & Family Therapy
The Power of Talking
As the new school year approaches and families begin to feel the stress of having to decide, among other things, which learning option is best for them, there is one…
Adult & Couples Therapy, Child & Adolescent Therapy, Mental Health
4 Key Ways to Cope with the Social Impact of Coronavirus
Depending on your family’s circumstances in dealing with Coronavirus, some of you might have already been self-quarantined in your home before this week. Many more of you who might have…
Adult & Couples Therapy, Mental Health
Can Lack Of Sleep Make You Depressed or Anxious?
How much sleep should I be receiving? The National Sleep Foundation recommends that adults receive between seven and nine hours of sleep each night. Sleep becomes a concern when an…
Adult & Couples Therapy, Child & Adolescent Therapy, Mental Health
What is self-injurious behavior or SIB?
Self-injury is a non-suicidal act that involves deliberate, self-inflicted damage to the body. There are various forms of self-injury, but the most common include: intentional carving or cutting of the…
Adult & Couples Therapy, Child & Adolescent Therapy, Mental Health, Parenting & Family Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Distress Tolerance Skills: TIPP Skills
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) focuses on teaching patients and families several strategies to help tolerate painful emotions and to manage difficult situations in the best way possible. We all face…
Adult & Couples Therapy, Child & Adolescent Therapy, Mental Health
What is the difference between DBT & CBT Therapies?
Sifting through the alphabet soup of psychotherapy treatments can often be bewildering and overwhelming. The rise of evidence-based psychotherapies (i.e., treatments that have strong research support) has had a tremendous…
Adult & Couples Therapy, Mental Health
Depression and Autism Spectrum Disorders
According to Christopher McDougle, MD, director of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Lurie Center for Autism and a member of Autism Speaks Autism Treatment Network, “Mood disorders – including depression – do…
