Starting the Year With Clarity, Not Pressure

The New Year often comes with a familiar message: improve, optimize, reinvent. While some people find this energizing, others feel disconnected from it altogether. If you’re starting the year with questions instead of resolutions, that’s not a problem to solve. It’s a...

Finding Gratitude in Chosen Family at Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving often arrives wrapped in images of big tables, familiar traditions, and family gathered together. But for many people, the holiday is far more complicated than the picture on a greeting card. Not all families feel safe or supportive, and not everyone...

How to Strengthen Your Relationship With Your Teen

By Carla Hilderbrand, LICSWA, SUDPT, Clinical Social Worker Parenting a teenager can feel like a high-stakes emotional juggling act. One minute your teen wants your advice, and the next they are giving you the silent treatment because you reminded them to bring a...

What Happens When You Stop Fighting Your Feelings

By Katie—Greenlake Wellness Group When people come to therapy, they often arrive with a list of things they want to change—thoughts they wish they didn’t have, feelings they’re tired of carrying, and patterns they can’t seem to break. Wanting change is natural. But...