Therapy vs Coaching: What’s The Difference?
Do you need a coach or a therapist? What are the differences between therapy and coaching? This article describes the main differences in how therapy and coaching work, what a therapist and a coach do, and what outcomes to expect from each discipline.
Effective Therapy for Anxiety: Proven Techniques for Finding Relief
Discover the best treatments for anxiety, how therapy can provide relief, and helpful self-help tips to overcome anxiety in this comprehensive guide.
Unlocking Hope: A Journey Through Person-Centered Therapy for Depression
The path for folks experiencing depression often feels lonely and hopeless. Person-Centered Therapy is rooted in human connection , empathy, and empowerment. Mark Loewen, LPC describes what this counseling approach for depression looks like.
Is It More Than Stress? 10 Signs to Watch
If you feel anxious and worried, or constantly tired and depressed, you may be experiencing more than regular stress. In this post, you’ll find 10 signs to know if you should take extra steps to feel better. A therapist can help you move through these, and toward a happier life.
When Does Protecting Your Kids Become Over-Parenting?
Tips for parents to avoid over-parenting, and allow children to be happier and more confident. Over-parented children are more insecure and and have lower self-esteem. These tips help parents to step back, avoid over-parenting, and allow their child to step up in confidence.
Telling Children About Divorce (Part 2)
Telling your children about the divorce is one of the hardest things you’ll do. This post is part 2 of 10 tips that will help you with advice on how to tell your kids about divorce in the most healthy and supportive way.
Telling Children About Divorce (Part 1)
Telling your children about the divorce is one of the hardest things you’ll do. These tips will help you with advice on how to tell your kids about divorce in the most healthy and supportive way.
7 Powerful Ways to Manage Anxiety
Anxiety can be crippling and painful. These tips and advice can help you beat anxiety and feel better again. Overcoming anxiety is not easy, but it is possible. Start by managing your anxiety with these pointers.
How To Help Your Child Battle Anxiety
Tips and advice on how to help your anxious child overcome anxiety. Kids are affected by anxiety for many reasons, but there are also many thing parents can do to support their child and help them beat anxiety and feel secure again.
Parenting Isn't Easy: A Parent Coach Can Help
Parent coaching can help you tackle the most frustrating interactions with your children. Many parents are tired of the same power struggles. Parenting is a huge task. A parent coach can help!
Could Your Child Have Anxiety? Watch For These Key Signs
Childhood anxiety has an appropriate place in the lives of children, just as it does for adults. When there is real danger, your child’s body needs to activate important inner resources. But when fear and worry keep your child from friends and fun, from not wanting to leave your side, they may have anxiety.
Could Play Therapy Benefit Your Teen?
Play Therapy for teenagers involves using games, art, and other creative outlets to help teens process their thoughts and feelings. It is our experience that teenagers enjoy their counseling sessions because they trust their therapist, who engages them according to their strengths and likes.
How To Raise Kind Kids: 5 Tips
Parenting tips on raising kind kids, include leading by example, taking time for yourself, and maybe enlisting a parent coach or a child therapist.
Am I a Good Parent?
Parent guilt is a real thing. Many parents feel that they aren’t good enough at parenting. But, you actually might be. Here I list 5 things that good parents do.
How to Know if Your Child Needs Therapy
Children aren’t always able to express their feelings clearly, so they act them out. Child therapy can help kids overcome depression, anxiety, and the effects of ADHD or or experiences like parental divorce.
What is Play Therapy?
Play Therapy is the best type of counseling for children because play therapist use the child’s natural language: play. Through games, art, and creativity, play therapists engage children and help them resolve stress.
When Your Child Comes Out as Gay: What I Tell Parents Whose Child Comes Out
When your child comes out as gay, they are giving you new information about their identity that adjusts how you see them. This is not to say that the picture becomes better or worse – it just changes. Here are some answers I give parents when they tell me that their child is gay.
Don’t Let Depression Hold You Back - Take These Steps to Break Free
Depression is exhausting and makes you feel hopeless. But you can overcome depression. These suggestions can help you start the way out of feeling depressed. Couple these with counseling for depression. Therapy works.
When Leaving the Past Behind Ain’t Easy
How to leave the past in the past? Unresolved pain from the past can leave you feeling anxiety, depression, worry, stress, and make you feel tired and hopeless. These tips for moving forward and leave the past behind are written by a therapist at LaunchPad Counseling in Richmond Va.
7 Signs Your Child Has Developed A Healthy Attachment
Your Child’s level of healthy attachment will determine how they interact with you and the world. These signs of healthy attachment in children help you recognize if your child has healthy attachment.