People think play therapy is sitting in a room and watching a child play and accomplishing nothing more than 50 minutes of babysitting. Nothing could be further from the truth. Play therapy is an organized, theoretical approach to assist children with the struggles of life. In a child’s world, play ...
Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week!
Mental Health Begins in Childhood It’s National Children's Mental Health Awareness Week! If you’ve ever been to counseling before, you have probably learned that your childhood experiences have a significant impact on the way you are as an adult. Trauma, family interactions, genetics, etc. in ...
Child Abuse Prevention Month!
April is child abuse prevention month! Such an important topic to us all! Anything we can do as a community to understand, report and prevent child abuse and neglect is one of the most important things we can ever do! When trying to decide if something is child neglect/abuse many times there is a ...
Top 5 Things to Know about Self-Harm
Top 5 Things to Know about Self-Harm This week, we are raising awareness on a subject that can be incredibly distressing and confusiong – self-harm. If you or someone you know has struggled with self-harm, you will know that it comes in different forms and can stem from a multitude of emotional ...
The Benefits of Mentoring
The Benefits of Mentoring “Why don’t you become volunteer or a mentor?” “I don’t have time to do that. I have enough problems of my own, I don’t need to take on anyone else’s problems.” “Life is just too busy and hectic to do that.” These are some of the excuses that many of us use when we are ...
