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Mental Health
Leanne Jimenez, APC

Emotional Regulation: What is it? And how do I do it?

Emotional regulation is the skill of managing one’s response to a situation. It involves changing thoughts and behaviors to change the response effectively. Think of remaining calm, being controlled, and responding to things in a way that makes you feel genuine and authentic. The opposite of emotional regulation is dysregulation. Dysregulation can be destructive to

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Relationships
Allie Argue MFT Intern

I’m a sexual being and I have chronic health conditions, what do?

Let’s be honest, we live in a sex-denying culture. Society perpetuates the idea that we are not allowed to be sexual beings. Society does this cruel thing of placing us in these boxes of what we can do, what we absolutely, positively CANNOT talk about, how to dress, how to act, the list goes on.

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BACK TO SCHOOL
Family
Sharickah Rogers, LPC

Successfully Navigating the Back-to-School Transition: Strengthening Couples and Families

As summer comes to an end, the back-to-school season brings a wave of excitement, but it can also introduce new challenges for couples with children. Managing schedules, juggling responsibilities, figuring out how to help your kiddo with this new-aged math (argh!), and ensuring a smooth transition for everyone involved sends many parents racing to Starbucks

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Mental Health
Leanne Jimenez, APC

Health / Mental Health Crisis in the Workplace

This article is directed for those transitioning back into work after going through a health or mental health crisis, and for their supervisors. Work is essential, even in the midst of some of life’s crisis that can occur. Therefore, it is essential that we know how to transition back into work when facing a health

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Therapy
Allie Argue MFT Intern

It Takes Courage: Embrace Therapy & Find Healing

It takes a great amount of courage to come to therapy. To admit that you need help navigating your experiences, how they have affected you, to express your feelings in front of another takes great strength. We live in a society that shames us for expressing how we feel that it makes us “weak” or

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Personal Growth
Sharickah Rogers, LPC

The Story I’m Telling Myself…

Have you ever been texting with a friend, see the 3 dots indicating that they are responding, and then the 3 dots go away? In that moment, you likely made up a story to explain why that happened. Maybe the story was that you came on a little aggressive with all those exclamation points and

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