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In sessions, when I ask kids (and parents) what is keeping them from change, often the answer is that “It is hard.” Early in my years of practice I started to wonder when something being hard became an acceptable reason not to do it? In my office there is a huge sign that says “You...

In some sessions, I do an activity where I have everyone follow my directions and draw a picture of a bug without looking at each-others papers. I say things like “it has 7 legs” and “it has polkadots” At the end I have everyone show their bugs (which turn out so different) ...

Adjustment disorder are stress-related conditions. You experience more stress than would normally be expected in response to a stressful or unexpected event, and the stress causes significant problems in your relationships, at work or at school. Adjustment Disorders often become present when big ...

The family life cycle is a series of stages through which a family may pass over time. Typical stages in family development include the periods of a single young adult, a newly married couple, a family with young children, a family with adolescents, launching the children, and a family in later ...

Systemic therapy seeks to reduce distress and conflict within family dynamics by addressing and improving the systems of interactions between individuals. Systemic therapy can involve anyone in the family, whether parents and children, grandparents or siblings Basically- if there is a problem, ...

Lets say that you are a child and you really really love Poptarts. But every morning you come downstairs to see your mom eating them! This made you super upset so you come to therapy if I only met with you “the child” alone, and you came to me with this problem in individual therapy I ...