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Heeding the Oxygen Mask Warning: Why Treating a Child's Anxiety Starts with the Whole Family
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Heeding the Oxygen Mask Warning: Why Treating a Child's Anxiety Starts with the Whole Family

Jesse Chung: Anxiety in children is often treated individually, but research shows that involving the whole family leads to better outcomes. Parents and caregivers play a central role in either reinforcing or helping to reduce a child's anxiety through their own behaviors and emotional health. Addressing parental mental health alongside a child’s treatment creates a more sustainable path to healing. This post explores how anxiety is not just an individual issue, but a relational one that benefits from a family-based approach.

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Depression vs. Burnout: Understanding the Difference and Approaches to Recovery
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Depression vs. Burnout: Understanding the Difference and Approaches to Recovery

Wed Higgins: Feeling exhausted, unmotivated, or emotionally drained? When facing high-loads of stress, it can become difficult to find the motivation to seize the day. If you find yourself exhausted, unmotivated, and emotionally drained then you are not alone. These symptoms are both conditions of both depression and burnout. In this blog post, we’ll compare the two to find out where they overlap. But importantly, from a psychotherapy perspective, we’ll discuss how different approaches may be warranted given crucial differences between the two.

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“Oh no, what did I just do?” Recovering From Texting Gaffes 
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“Oh no, what did I just do?” Recovering From Texting Gaffes 

Amanda LaMela and Dani Saliani: Whether it’s a bad auto-correct mistake, sending something embarrassing to the wrong person, or something you regret you dished out when not sober or when in the throes of an emotional time period, we’ve all been there in one way or another. But while it may be relatable, it can be oh-so isolating in the moment when you realize what you just did and the feelings begin rising to a point of panic. It doesn’t even have to be that bad to send a spike to our blood pressure. This post will discuss the feelings that come up and what we can do when texting gaffes happen, both to figure it out with the recipient and to take care of ourselves.

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The Doom Spending Dilemma: How Millennials & Gen Z Cope with Financial Anxiety
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The Doom Spending Dilemma: How Millennials & Gen Z Cope with Financial Anxiety

Amanda LaMela and Dani Saliani: "Doom spending" is a term gaining more media traction attributed to millennials and Gen Z, though it’s not an entirely new phenomenon. It often emerges from existential anxiety, a perceived lack of control, and a desperate attempt to regain agency, particularly in the context of distressing global events that lead to a sense of powerlessness and resignation. This post explores ways to support yourself both in terms of coping with powerlessness and better managing your finances, rather than impulsive spending.

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Narrative Therapy: Rewriting Your Family's Story for Healing
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Narrative Therapy: Rewriting Your Family's Story for Healing

Narrative therapy can be used to treat a variety of circumstances such as trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem and self-worth issues, relationship problems, grief and loss, LGBTQ+ related issues,  life transitions and addiction. A therapist using this approach is operating from the frame that a person is never the problem and the problem exists on its own. This blog post is designed to look at narrative therapy from the approach of the family unit, which is beneficial both in family therapy and in one’s individual therapy.

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Understanding Body Image and Body Dysmorphic Disorder
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Understanding Body Image and Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Anya Ahuja: Each person’s relationship with their bodies differs from the next. How we see, feel, think about, and treat our bodies come together to comprise what is called our body image. I am confident that we all have heard the phrase “body image” before – but what exactly is body image? This post explores the concept of body image, as well as differentiate from the clinical disorder known as body dysmorphic disorder. 

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Huntington’s Disease: How Psychotherapy Helps
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Huntington’s Disease: How Psychotherapy Helps

Huntington’s disease is a genetic and rare neurodegenerative disorder that affects the central nervous system. Though the disorder is rare, it still affects 30,000 Americans and, due to the genetic nature of the disease, 150,000 people are susceptible to developing Huntington’s disease. This post explores how psychotherapy can support both those with Huntington’s disease and their families.

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Best Therapists New York: Finding the Right Fit
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Best Therapists New York: Finding the Right Fit

People often search for the best therapists or “good therapists NYC,” with a vague idea of what that means to them. However, there are as many variations of therapists as there are humans- which has positive and negative outcomes. This post explores considerations when searching for a therapist and how to navigate the initial meetings with them so that you can find the ideal therapist for you.

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Circling Back to Sanity: A Realist's Guide to Workplace Resilience
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Circling Back to Sanity: A Realist's Guide to Workplace Resilience

Amanda LaMela: Building mental resilience in a corporate career can sometimes seem like mastering the art of walking barefoot over hot coals (only the flames are endless meetings, impossible deadlines, and passive-aggressive emails.) This blog post explores Amanda’s personal journey from being a fashion buyer to a new career in mental health counseling and provides helpful strategies for all workplaces and how to maintain your sanity.

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Alone in a Crowded Subway: Why Loneliness Hits Different in New York City
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Alone in a Crowded Subway: Why Loneliness Hits Different in New York City

Amanda LaMela: Loneliness is a growing public health concern in the United States, even described as a national “loneliness epidemic.” While social isolation and loneliness can affect anyone, our environments can shape how we experience these feelings. There are ways in which you can reduce social isolation even in a busy urban environment like New York City, such as third places and meet up groups.

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Eating Pure or Pure Anxiety? Understanding Orthorexia
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Eating Pure or Pure Anxiety? Understanding Orthorexia

Amanda LaMela: If "clean eating" feels more like walking a nutritional tightrope than nurturing your body, the pursuit of wellness might be devolving into an unhealthy obsession. Orthorexia or ‘orthorexia nervosa’ refers to a preoccupation with food purity and the associated restrictive behaviors surrounding consumption. This blog post explores orthorexia and what you can do to support yourself.

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Gray Area Drinking: The Overlooked Struggle with Alcohol
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Gray Area Drinking: The Overlooked Struggle with Alcohol

Gray area drinking is the in-between area of a healthy relationship with alcohol and an alcohol use disorder, often looked at as social drinking. One still might experience distressing impacts from drinking and what is commonly known as hangxiety the day following a night out. This blog post explores the line between these varying levels of alcohol use, how you can support yourself, and some positive reminders.

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Mind Games: How Depression Tricks You into Feeling Unwanted
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Mind Games: How Depression Tricks You into Feeling Unwanted

Amanda LaMela: Depression isn’t just a mood-killer. It can also be a master of psychological sabotage, adept at hijacking your perception of reality. It distorts how you remember and interpret interactions, amplifying feelings of worthlessness or rejection. It even interferes with your ability to accurately perceive speech in noisy social settings, literally making you hear things wrong, like the world's cruelest game of Telephone.

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Stacking the Deck in Your Favor: A Simple Way to Get Unstuck
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Stacking the Deck in Your Favor: A Simple Way to Get Unstuck

Amanda LaMela: Struggling with decision-making or feeling stuck? The Personal Values Card Sort is a simple yet powerful tool to uncover what truly matters to you—beyond societal expectations and outdated beliefs. Narrowing down your top five values forces you to confront the gap between who you are and how you live, sparking meaningful change. Whether for self-reflection or therapy, value sorting helps you live with intention and purpose.

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Doomscrolling and Mental Health: How to Break the Cycle of Negative News Consumption
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Doomscrolling and Mental Health: How to Break the Cycle of Negative News Consumption

Doomscrolling has been the response of many people feeling a lack of control and fear around the current state of the world. Scrolling through bad news can leave you feeling drained and anxious, as well as exacerbate depression and past traumas. Discover why doomscrolling affects your mental health and what you can do to stop the behavior.

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