A mission statement is a summary of the values of a company and what it aims to be in its practice. In the same fashion, a family can have a mission statement based on the values

Often times when someone seeks out therapy, they have an overwhelming feeling of being “lost”. This can happen to anyone, but it absolutely happens to parents when transitioning from being fun and single, to being married and then being a mom.

Recently, we realized that one of our blogs, “Why am I always on edge?” has had a jump in views of the past several weeks. The post was written two years ago. It didn’t take too long for me to realize that it’s likely due to our collective COVID-19 experience, so I thought I’d update the blog to take a global pandemic, and re-entry, into account.

At Harper Therapy, we put a lot of thought, training, and hard work into the services we offer, and we’re proud of the outcomes that we’re able to help our clients achieve. In fact, our primary referral sources are from word of mouth and our reviews.

“You are just not good enough/capable enough/are wrong/are a bad person/ etc.” Sometimes the constant criticism can be overwhelming, and it can be tiring to have this ever-present bully in your head.

While the pandemic was extremely hard on most people throughout the world and the lasting impacts on mental health are still to be determined, there is one group of people who have been even more gravely impacted this past year versus in years past, those who struggle with drug addiction.

Being a mom is HARD. I feel like what no one really prepares you for is how much you will be your own worst enemy. When you are pregnant you have an influx of hormones. I remember crying over a perfectly good homemade dinner and had no idea why.

We have found that talking about starting a family is one of the stressors clients address in therapy. We know that in our particular cases those conversations with our partners were not what we expected them to be, they were a cold bucket of reality, they were hard, we didn’t know where to start or how to guide our thoughts in the midst of the emotional step that was starting a family.

It can be a struggle to fully accept yourself. Maybe there is an aspect of yourself you find incongruent with the rest of your self-identity, or maybe a quality you do not like in others, thus strongly dislike even the notion of seeing it within yourself