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...
In a world that moves fast and demands even faster responses, it’s easy to lose connection with yourself. Many people arrive in therapy feeling overwhelmed, disconnected from their emotions, or unsure of what they truly want or need. Much of healing begins with...
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...
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...
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...
As the light fades earlier and the world speeds up, many of us feel our inner pace start to falter. The transition from fall to winter often brings both beauty and strain—the cozy glow of the holidays mixed with the pressure to do, give, and be more. It’s no wonder so...
