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Alejandra Zuluaga 11/10/21 Alejandra Zuluaga 11/10/21

Is It Abuse If My Partner Does Not Hit Me?

Emotional abuse leads to lower self-esteem, depression, isolation, and doubting your own reality.

Yolanda Harper 11/3/21 Yolanda Harper 11/3/21

When Your Anxiety (or Depression or ADD...) is Really Trauma

That’s because many times trauma symptoms and anxiety symptoms can overlap. But with trauma, you’re dealing with a hijacked limbic system -- that fight, flight, freeze part of the brain -- so it can feel exponentially worse

Toni Gorn 10/28/21 Toni Gorn 10/28/21

What You May Not Know About Trauma

everyone has trauma, it just looks different for each person.

Yiara Blanco 10/20/21 Yiara Blanco 10/20/21

What Trauma Can Look Like/ Como Luce El Trauma

We believe that trauma is only related to veterans or a person who has suffered sexual abuse. But this is not the case, we can all experience trauma in our daily lives

Alina Klein 10/13/21 Alina Klein 10/13/21

Introducing Alejandra Part 2

Couples are Alejandra’s cup of tea and she especially enjoys working with women who feel stretched thin in their partnerships and family and yet don’t feel like they have the ability to voice their feelings of stress to their significant others.

Shamon Harper 10/6/21 Shamon Harper 10/6/21

Feeling More Connected to Your Partner

And when we feel they are not engaging in ARE in a manner that is satisfactory to our needs, we start to have thoughts of “this person is not here for me”, “he/she does not understand me” or maybe even “my partner is not a safe person to turn to when I need them”.

Shamon Harper 9/30/21 Shamon Harper 9/30/21

Meet Our, New Therapist, Alejandra

Meet Alejandra! She is our bilingual, amazing, new therapist. Alejandra is a Registered Clinical Social Work Intern. Her superpower is helping people to feel safe. She will help you navigate the uncertainty and overwhelming feelings. Along with helping you find your voice and finding balance in caring for others and yourself!

Toni Gorn 9/23/21 Toni Gorn 9/23/21

All Roads Lead to Boundaries

Boundaries are a topic that comes up with each of my clients.

Yiara Blanco 9/15/21 Yiara Blanco 9/15/21

Implementing Therapeutic Time-Outs in Relationships

A “Therapeutic Time-Out” is a moment of self-awareness. A moment when you realize that you are reaching the breaking point, and before the entire Hoover Dam comes pouring out, you decide to invoke a “Therapeutic Time-Out”.

Alina Klein 9/9/21 Alina Klein 9/9/21

Emotions and the Body

This week, we talked about where emotions are stored in the body. Recent research using thermal body mapping has shown that emotions can either activate or deactivate certain parts of the body.

Shamon Harper 9/1/21 Shamon Harper 9/1/21

Stop Avoiding Your Thoughts

Our brain is wired to create thoughts and feelings and may in fact even be more likely to create the very thing we want to avoid

Yolanda Harper 8/26/21 Yolanda Harper 8/26/21

Community Collaboration: Sense ABLE Brain Pediatric Therapy

Yolanda sits down with Kim Hazelton, Occupational Therapist and Owner of SENSEABLEBRAIN.