Category: Writings

  • What is Therapy For?

    Here is a great video about the value of therapy. You can read the full article here. It’s okay to reach out and “see someone.” I wish you the courage to lean in, Danielle

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  • Can You Help Me?

    Use these stories to help you fully participate in therapy. To contribute to your process and feel like you have power. You get to choose where therapy goes and what you want to work on. Where counseling takes you depends on where you take counseling, so take what insight you gain in the room and…

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  • Joy and Sadness

      Being a therapist, and someone who has a strong affinity for children’s movies, it was in perfect order that my little girl and I went to watch Disney Pixar’s new movie, Inside Out. It was a film that brought laughter, tears, and a much needed emotion-focused movie to the market. I’ll try not to ruin…

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  • Meeting Grief

    Grief is a complex beast. Sometimes she comes out in anger, other times sadness, confusion, anxiety, or fear. For some people, she waits in the shadows to pop up long after the loss occurred. Others she stands there, next to the immediate loss, ready to take us into her arms. And ultimately, however Grief appears…

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