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All About Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Admit it – you’ve done this before. At one point or another, you have probably said aloud to somebody else (or to yourself) “I’m so OCD!” implying some tendencies towards cleanliness or perfection. Just as some other mental health concepts are...
Suicide: A Societal Secret
The people you meet everyday may or may not be dealing with depression, anxiety, or other mental health concerns. Your neighbor with the idyllic home, the celebrity with the perfect lifestyle, the individual at the gym who is the "picture" of health and...
Wasting Your Time (and Energy) Worrying
Worrying is one of the most futile or purposeless things that most people can do. Unless your worry can tangibly help you to identify solutions that you could implement to prevent a negative outcome, worry is often something that people do to...
Another School Year Ending, Another Summer Starting
Time sure does fly by. It feels like just yesterday the school year was beginning. Now, here we are: The school year is soon coming to a close. While some students are happy and some are sad (most likely at the thought of not seeing their...
Realistic Expectations in the Process of Growth and Change
When trying to make an important change your life, it is important to keep a realistic mindset. This is even more true when you are working on changing something that has been present in your life for a long period of time. Change does not...
Three Key Components to Happiness
Recently I heard this saying related to happiness and it really resonated with me. After all, happiness is the goal that across the world, most people seek to obtain. The idea that really rang true is that three of the key aspects to happiness...
All About Emotional Support Animals
Emotional support animals are legitimate “resources” that people turn to in order to manage their emotions and feel more comfortable in situations that otherwise can produce stress, fear, or anxiety. Trouble is, many people have abused the...
Imposter Syndrome
Imposter syndrome. This is the term that I have heard many, many clients mention to me lately. Though it was coined in 1978 by two psychologists, it is only recently that I have begun to hear a surge of people describing themselves as suffering...
IQ Testing or Intellectually Gifted Testing and Assessment
There may come a time when your child’s teachers approach you and say something to the effect of "your child is not like the others in their class." Some might initially hear this and think something negative, however, in the context that we are speaking of, we are...