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Teens: Counseling and Therapy
Overview The teenage years can be a rollercoaster of physical, emotional, and social changes. How you handle them determines whether the road ahead will be rocky, tumultuous, or smooth sailing. The adolescent years are filled with social, emotional, and physical changes which can be confusing to navigate alone, and uncomfortable to discuss with parents. Teens…
Read MoreTherapy for Teenagers — Empower Growth
Give your teenagers the support they need—and watch them thrive. Therapy for adolescents is often life-changing. Arrange expert therapy for teenagers at Eastside Center.
Read MoreTherapy for Children — Building for Success
Give your children the support they need—and watch them flourish. Therapy for children is often life-changing. Expert therapy for children at the Eastside Center for Family.
Read MoreRecognizing burnout: moving from burnout to balance
Is every day overwhelming? Do you face a constant stream of things to get done and get through? Zoom meetings to attend, kids to get to soccer, household chores, work assignments, family responsibilities, and on and on. Do you feel like there is no space for you? You are not alone. Does your life feel…
Read MoreHas your child had difficult experiences? Trauma-informed therapy for children, teens, and young adults can help your child thrive
Has your child experienced trauma or adverse events? The effects of trauma on children can be profound. Childhood trauma can impact emotional, intellectual, and even physical development. The consequences of trauma early in life – especially repeated exposure – appears during childhood, adolescence, and throughout the adult years. Depression, anxiety, risky behaviors, substance abuse, and…
Read MoreNAMI Statement One Year After the Murder of George Floyd
May 25, 2021 – NAMI Statement Arlington, VA — The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) today released the following statement from CEO Daniel H. Gillison Jr.: “For many of us, today elicits complicated emotions. “We are encouraged by the tens of thousands across the country who expressed solidarity with the Black community…
Read MoreWhen a loved one has coronavirus: self-care during Covid-19
The last year has been uncertain for all of us. The global pandemic has brought financial worries, a decrease in mental health, and many more day-to-day stresses. One aspect of the coronavirus that has been especially difficult to cope with is when someone that we love contracts the illness. With varying degrees of severity, we…
Read MoreWhat is Somatic Experiencing?
A person very close to me was involved in a head-on collision as a young man. Riding a motorcycle late at night he was struck by a drunk driver who pulled out of his lane to pass a car. It was so sudden; the young man barely had time to react but managed to avoid…
Read MoreNumbing Out
Everybody does it. All of us have times when we do something like drinking an extra glass of wine to take the edge off, eat a sleeve of Oreos while watching Netflix, work crazy hours for days in a row, obsess over a hobby. Numbing out is so common place is it not always noticed…
Read MoreAnger
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor the last toothsome morsel of both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back—in so many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.
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