By Felicia Levy, LCSW Have you ever heard of EMDR? EMDR is short for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is an evidence based therapy technique that helps people reprocess past events in order to alleviate current symptoms, triggers and distress from troubling memories. I was first introduced to the process many years ago following […]

By Alana Lehrfield, LSW “Don’t give up what you want most for what you want now.”  –Richard G. Scott Delayed gratification refers to the ability of an individual to resist doing something fun, pleasurable or rewarding now, in order to gain a more valuable reward in the future.  For example, you could go to a […]

By Kyle Shiver, MA You’re sitting across from your therapist, pouring out and sifting through your inner experiencing, hoping that your collaboration will awaken some miraculous insight into what’s been ailing you for so, so long. As you continually reveal more, they scrawl notes on the legal pad in their lap, and the two of […]

By Farah Hussain Baig, LCSW Expectant parents spend months creating images in their mind of who they want their child to become.  But above everything, parents will consistently share their primary hope is to have a healthy child. With prenatal genetic testing, it is possible to confirm the likelihood of an unlimited list of disorders […]

By Felicia Levy, LCSW By now you’ve probably heard that having good self-esteem is essential to your personal and professional well-being. Recent studies have shown that there is an additional tool – self-compassion – that might be even more effective in helping you lead a balanced life. Self-compassion – it sounds simple enough, right? Let’s […]

By Kyle Shiver, MA Drama is exhausting. It saps us of the energy we need to maintain our own well-being and stability. If you find yourself caught in continuous cycles of drama with a friend, coworker, family member, or partner, there is a useful and practical tool – the drama triangle — to help us […]

By Jamie Edwards, LCSW In researching for this blog, I came across something called the uncertainty principle, developed by a German physicist Werner Heisenberg.  This principle makes sense of the unexplainable in science and math, such as the functions of atoms, space, and the sun.  In basic terms, the more we know about the positioning […]

By Felicia Levy, LCSW Attachment refers to the particular way in which you relate to other people based on your level of security in the relationship. There are many different psychologists and therapists who have done scientific research on the topic, including John Bowlby, Dr. Allan Shore, John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth and Stephen Borges to […]