Whenever someone comes and sits down in my office we have questions we have to ask, but there are a few that stand out to me when we’re talking about building a foundation for improving mental health. When looking at how to care for...

What do you think of when you think of the word “health?” Do you think about your physical or mental health? These are the first two that come to my mind. However, there are many types of health. Years ago, I spoke with someone...

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.” This quote comes from Viktor Frankl who survived the Holocaust and wrote Man’s Search for Meaning. It is a good place to start when...

Something I always come back to emphasizing in the therapeutic alliance is the need to build support outside of session. Your therapist is great, but they cannot be your village, your best friend, or your community. Especially since COVID, it feels like building community...

Control is mostly an illusion. We can control some things—such as the clothes we pick out to put on each day, the food we take into our bodies and how we spend our time. And yet, there are so many things we cannot control....

Loneliness is defined as a subjective, unpleasant feeling of isolation or lack of connection with others. Solitude is the quality or state of being alone or far-off from society: seclusion; an uninhabited place. Solitude is different from loneliness, in that when we speak of...