Discover the Power of Gratitude to Enhance Wellbeing, Boost Happiness, and Transform Your Mental Health By IVPC Staff Imagine you are on a dream tropical vacation that you have been planning for months to escape all your chores and daily stressors. It is winter, cold and snowy in your hometown, and you look forward to […]

Discover the Power of Gratitude to Enhance Wellbeing, Boost Happiness, and Transform Your Mental Health By IVPC Staff Imagine you are on a dream tropical vacation that you have been planning for months to escape all your chores and daily stressors. It is winter, cold and snowy in your hometown, and you look forward to […]

By Lauren Caccamo, LPC A gratitude blog post in November? Ground breaking, right? Well I’m here to talk a bit about gratitude, but what I mainly want to discuss is what it means to hold space in your everyday life for a gratitude practice. If you have been anywhere near the mental health space in […]

By Alana Lehrfield, LSW Beloved and frequently quoted American poet, Mary Oliver, died a few weeks ago on January 17, 2019. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, she was most notable for her celebrated poems The Journey, The Summer Day and Wild Geese. In a rare interview with Krista Tippet in 2005, […]

By Alana Lehrfield, LSW Beloved and frequently quoted American poet, Mary Oliver, died a few weeks ago on January 17, 2019. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, she was most notable for her celebrated poems The Journey, The Summer Day and Wild Geese. In a rare interview with Krista Tippet in 2005, […]

By Felicia Levy, LCSW Be Nice To Yourself! 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 […]

By Felicia Levy, LCSW Heading into the holidays with Thanksgiving quickly approaching, many people think about what they are grateful for. Personally, gratitude is one of my favorite tools to use when I’m feeling in a funk. As a therapist, I receive regular feedback from clients who say that finding a daily gratitude practice really […]

By Felicia Levy, LCSW Heading into the holidays with Thanksgiving quickly approaching, many people think about what they are grateful for. Personally, gratitude is one of my favorite tools to use when I’m feeling in a funk. As a therapist, I receive regular feedback from clients who say that finding a daily gratitude practice really […]

By Lauren Freier, MA, AMFT In a world ripe with opportunity and possibility, the freedom of choice can turn into an expectation that you must gracefully embody all options. Do it all, they say, but don’t feel like you should have to do everything. You don’t have to be perfect. Just be the perfect amount […]

By Saren LeCompte, LCPC Eat healthier. Don’t curse. Exercise more. Lose weight. Make new friends. Start a relationship. Do any of these goals sound familiar? If yes, isn’t these small steps, big goals? So often we tell ourselves we will do things differently in the New Year. As much as many people dislike new year’s […]

By Saren LeCompte, LCPC Eat healthier. Don’t curse. Exercise more. Lose weight. Make new friends. Start a relationship. Do any of these goals sound familiar? If yes, isn’t these small steps, big goals? So often we tell ourselves we will do things differently in the New Year. As much as many people dislike new year’s […]