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On Families and Systems: Who is in the Room?
Author:
Ammara Khalid
posted: May 31, 2021.
My personal definition of family has always included grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. This is because of how I grew up; I was born in a joint family system, which
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Dogs and Daffodils: The Positive Impact of Pets and Plants on Mental Health
Author:
Emily Parke
posted: May 02, 2021.
As my dog Beau and I were leaving the assisted living facility where we had spent the past few months volunteering with a pet therapy organization, I heard someone call
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Un-flip Your Lid: Managing Your Emotions to Help Children Learn how to Manage Theirs.
Author:
Hollis Rabin
posted: Apr. 25, 2021.
For the last ten years I have worked almost exclusively in child development and residential treatment for adolescent kids with severe social-emotional impairments. I’ve seen some pretty big temper tantrums
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My Experience with Restructuring a Diffuse Boundary within a Family System
Author:
Latrice Peoples
posted: Apr. 04, 2021.
Growing up in the African American community, I was socialized to embrace a collectivistic view where the needs of the family or community were given a higher priority over your
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Singing the Baby Blues: Strategies for Surviving the Newborn Period in a Pandemic
Author:
Stefani Pila
posted: Mar. 29, 2021.
Having a newborn at any point in a person’s life is exciting, challenging, and scary and requires a period of time to adjust to the new reality. Add a pandemic
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Self-Care: Why It’s Important and How to Implement It
Author:
Lindsay McDonnell
posted: Mar. 21, 2021.
“You are no good to others if you do not take care of yourself” - I was told this repeatedly for years before I finally understood what it meant.
I
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The Most Massive Characters: Big T, Little t, and Complex Trauma
Author:
Jacqueline Salazar
posted: Feb. 28, 2021.
I am a childhood trauma survivor. It took me 25 years to recognize that and 30 years to fully acknowledge and embrace that I too am a trauma survivor. It
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Shifting the Bar – Continuing Self-Care through Difficult Times
Author:
Omar Diaz
posted: Feb. 14, 2021.
It would be an understatement to say that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected how we conduct our daily lives. Many businesses are closed, and many are not operating at full
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Embracing Our Roots: The Key to Our Deepest Healing
Author:
Amanda Rios
posted: Feb. 07, 2021.
“My family is who they are, and they won’t change, so we don’t need to talk about them.”
“Okay, but I don’t think it’s related.”
These are some of the most
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Life as a Minority: Is Healthcare, Self-care?
Author:
Preston Rice
posted: Jan. 31, 2021.
In our current times, the debate of whether COVID-19 vaccines are safe or not has come up for a lot of people. Whether or not we have access to the
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Burnout During a Pandemic- How to Identify and Resolve it
Author:
Azalea Di Nardi
posted: Jan. 22, 2021.
2020 was quite an exhausting year and 2021 has not felt different. The last year has brought new and unique challenges that no one could ever imagine. Facing a global
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On Emigration and Immigration – A Journey to Belong
Author:
Ammara Khalid
posted: Jan. 03, 2021.
I miss the sounds from back home; the buzzing of rickshaws and motorbikes, the bell ringing of the man rolling his vegetable cart down the street, and cawing of crows
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Bicultural Relationships: Navigating the Holidays
Author:
Brandon Liu
posted: Dec. 24, 2020.
One of my favorite New Year traditions that my family celebrated while I was growing up in Hawaii was driving the windy road up to my great grandmother’s house where
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Empowering Inclusivity and Complexity – Why Culture and Context Matter in Therapy
Author:
Amanda Rios
posted: Dec. 14, 2020.
I will never forget the moment that I was first exposed as being “different”. I was in kindergarten, it was a sunny day, and when approaching a few kids in
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On Therapy and Therapizing - A South Asian Perspective
Author:
Ammara Khalid
posted: Nov. 13, 2020.
“Tum kiya pagalon ka illaaj karo gi?” Are you going to treat crazy people?
I faced this question multiple times, especially at age 18 when I first suggested that I might
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