As previously discussed, DBT can have a deep impact on many areas of our lives. In addition to helping us be more mindful and present, it can help us to communicate our needs and set healthy boundaries. Along with those skills, emotional regulation and distress tolerance are also major pillars...
It sometimes feels like everything in the therapy field is an acronym, and DBT is no different! It stands for dialectic behavioral therapy, which is an evidence-based therapy that can help with mood, personality, eating, substance, or trauma-based disorders. It is multi-faceted in that it...
As our world sits in this weird holding pattern, it is extremely understandable for you to be feeling lethargic, unmotivated, under-stimulated, isolated, down, tired, and out of sorts, even if you aren’t typically prone to depressive states. In my previous blog, I named the very...
If you’ve been to therapy, you may recall that your therapist will remind you that everything that is said in therapy stays confidential, with a few important exceptions. These are the limits of confidentiality, the areas that your therapist is legally required to break confidentiality and...
Self-care, self-care, self-care. A mantra I heard over and over again during my grad school training years. It’s a mantra I find myself passing onto my clients on a regular basis, something that is integral to the healing process: “What are you going to do to take care of yourself...
With a name like Community Presbyterian Counseling Center, we often get questions from clients about how faith plays a role, or doesn’t, in our professional counseling center. You may have even wondered the same. Here are a few answers to common questions: What is Christian...
One of the main issues people come into therapy wanting help with is communication; whether it is between two spouses, a parent-child relationship, an entire family system, or even an individual needing help in expressing themselves. Some of these complaints may sound familiar: “They...
Heading home for the holidays can conjure the warm fuzzies of nostalgia and anxiety of old patterns or family conflict. Whether heading home from college, returning to your childhood home with your own family in tow, or hosting family yourself, spending time with family can often pull...
Therapy is so much part of my world that I sometimes forget how mysterious the concept is to many people. When I first started seeing clients, I heard the same joke over and over: "Do your clients come in and lie on your couch?". A very Freudian comic book-esque scene popped in my head, with a...
