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Beginning Your Sexual Addiction Therapy: Where To Start
Struggling with sexual addiction can feel overwhelming and isolating, but the first step towards healing is recognizing it’s a problem and seeking help. If you’re considering therapy, but aren’t sure where or how to begin, you’re not alone. Starting therapy can seem...
What To Look For In A Therapist: 6 Expert Tips
Finding the right therapist can feel overwhelming because there are so many options available⎯from different specialties to approaches, that it’s easy to feel unsure about where to begin. But starting therapy is one of the best investments you can make for your mental...
What to Do If One Partner Wants Counseling & The Other Doesn’t
Relationships aren’t always smooth sailing, and some couples may need help to grow together and communicate their feelings with a neutral party. However, what happens when one partner is ready to go to counseling, but the other isn’t on board? It’s a situation many...
How To Prioritize Yourself As A Foster Parent: Self-Care Tips
Becoming a foster parent is an incredible decision that can have a life-changing impact not only for the child you’re fostering, but also for your family. While rewarding, the challenges of foster parenting comes with its own set of unique challenges. Foster parents...
Do’s & Don’ts To Make Foster Children Feel Welcome In Your Home
The decision to foster a child is something that the whole family is involved in. Opening your home to a foster child means providing not just a roof over their head, but a safe and supportive space where they can thrive. For many foster parents, understanding how to...
The Benefits Of Therapy For Foster Children
Foster children face situations early on in their life that no one should have to face, potentially leaving lasting impacts on their emotional and mental health that cause extreme challenges for them as they navigate through life. From experiencing trauma to feeling a...
How To Support Your Children While Fostering
Fostering children is a rewarding and fulfilling experience, but it also comes with unique challenges—especially if you're already parenting your own children. Integrating foster children into your family requires careful consideration, empathy, and balance to ensure...
An Interview With Dawn Lamprecht, Our Registered Play Therapist and Women’s Therapist
What Makes You Passionate About The Work You Do? I’m passionate about helping aggressive and anxious children, including foster and adoptive children, navigate their worlds with calm and resilience. These children may act out because of deep-seated frustration or past...
How Does Emotionally Focused Therapy For Couples Work?
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a popular and effective form of psychotherapy used to help couples and individuals build secure, lasting relationships. It is based on the idea that strong relationships require emotional bonding and that when a relationship is...
How Betrayal Trauma Can Affect Your Body
When betrayal happens by someone you trusted, its impact runs far deeper than the immediate emotional turmoil. How you feel doesn’t just affect your emotions, but can also have a significant impact on the health of your body and how it functions. Learn more about...
How To Support A Loved One With An Eating Disorder During The Holidays
The holiday season is a time of joy, celebration, and togetherness. However, for those with eating disorders, this period can be particularly challenging. According to NEDA, in the United States, 28.8 million Americans will suffer from an eating disorder at some point...
Navigating Back-to-School Anxiety with Confidence
The start of a new school year can be an exciting yet scary time. Regardless of what age your child is, starting school for the first time or starting a new grade can bring about a lot of anxiety and behavior changes. If your child is feeling apprehensive about...
The Wedding Vow You Didn’t Know You Took and How To Keep It
Most wedding vows ask the question “Do you promise to forsake all others as long as you both shall live?” However, the neglected second part of this question states “….or Will you keep making negative comparisons between me and real or imagined alternatives?” Who do...
Distorted Highlight Reel: The Impact of Social Media on Body Image
In the digital age, social media has become an integral part of the lives of teenagers and young adults, offering a platform for self-expression, connection, and exploration. However, alongside its benefits, like the increase in access to friends and information, the...
Co-parenting With a Difficult Ex Spouse
Many Thanks to Rachel Menoizain, at Refuel Counseling in Cumming, GA for contributing to this post. If you would like to contact Rachel, you can reach her at RACHEL@REFUELCOUNSELING.COM. Co-Parenting can be hard and co-parenting with a toxic ex-spouse can feel...
Nurturing Healthy Conversations: A Guide for Parents on Discussing Eating Disorders with Their Children
Seeing your child struggle with disordered eating can be incredibly painful and helpless. Sometimes, parents see the disordered eating patterns clearly and other times, you wonder if your child is secretly struggling. Conversations around eating disorders with your...
Patterns of Conflict
Often when people come into couples’ therapy, it is because there is a conflict. At some point many people find themselves feeling alone and misunderstood in their relationship. When this happens, it’s easy to think there is something wrong with your partner or worse...
Benefits of Therapy as a Young Adult
Many people can benefit from therapy. Therapy is a great way for anyone to address, process, and work through various challenges and issues that life throws at us. As a young adult, there are specific struggles and experiences that therapy can help address and work...