Therapy Thursday

Some very exciting news this week: I have officially launched my private practice and am accepting new clients! Head to tjcounselicg.com to find out more!

Now the sad news: I am not accepting insurance. In this episode I talk about why that is, and how insurance companies are making access to mental health care so difficult.

In this episode we cover the basics of thinking in opposites, a.k.a. "dialectical thinking." It's a very important mental health skill that is widely applicable to almost every client I've ever worked with.

A lot of my friends and clients feel like overthinking is causing their anxiety. It shocks them to learn that it actually might be under thinking that is causing their anxiety! Find out why. 

In a new Therapy Thursday feature, we are reviewing the book "The Gap and the Gain" by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy.

I have 3 levels of "allyship" to help you be a better ally to LGBTQ+ people in your life, depending on where you are starting from.

Sometimes in our attempts to help someone who is going through pain, grief, or loss, we end up unintentionally saying the exact wrong thing. These are 3 of the most common ones. 

In the wake of the Roe v Wade decision, we need to discuss the importance of self determination in health care. 

Every kid gets asked the question - "what do you want to be when you grow up?" But what would happen if we altered that question to ask a kid what kind of person they want to be, rather than what job they want to have?

Let's take a crash course on attachment styles - a foundational theory of therapy used in a wide variety of cases, which helps us better understand how we function in relationships.

It's been said that any virtue taken to an extreme becomes a vice. This is what we discuss today within the context of toxicity, and how things like "toxic positivity" and "toxic masculinity" can come to be.