What associations do you have with anger? Do you perceive anger as a "positive" or "negative" emotion? Are you comfortable expressing your anger, or do you feel compelled to conceal it and remain silent? Exploring these questions will provide insight into your relationship with anger and help you understand how your experiences have shaped your connection with anger.

Developing a positive relationship with our bodies can be challenging when we are flooded with the harmful messages of diet culture and fatphobia. By unlearning this messaging and building our capacity to appreciate our bodies and their function, we can protect ourselves from harmful appearance-related cultural messaging and become less susceptible to their damages. But how do we develop a better relationship with our body? The body positivity and body neutrality movements may be a helpful place to start.

We are so pleased to welcome Allison Osmer, Masters Level Clinician in training, to our practice and are excited to share her expertise. In addition to the info you can see on Allison’s About Me page, let’s get to know her a little bit more.

We are so pleased to welcome Hannah Conner, LPC to our practice and are excited to share her expertise. In addition to the info you can see on Hannah’s About Me page, let’s get to know her a little bit more.

Dance/movement therapy is a body-based approach to therapy. It’s a holistic approach that includes the mind, body, and spirit in the healing process. It can look many different ways depending on what you’re looking for or needing in therapy. Like other therapy approaches, it also varies by therapist and by client. Meaning, one dance/movement therapist might approach a session, client, or topic differently than another. Similarly, the same dance/movement therapist might approach two different clients or issues differently.

It’s likely you have heard people describing using their intuition to make decisions, set certain boundaries, or self-reflect. Maybe you’re one of those people! Or maybe you find yourself in the group who feels both inspired and confused by this concept. Recently, I’ve heard from a few people that they get caught up in uncertainty and feeling unsure if what they are sensing is their intuition or something else. So let’s explore how to tap into your intuition.

Of all the services I offer, the one that gets the most questions is Reiki. Maybe you’re one of the many people who have either never heard of Reiki or have heard the name but are unsure exactly what it is.

Play is how we learn, develop, explore, and understand as children. As adults, it seems the pull toward productivity and responsibility can quickly take over. However, as adults, our brains and bodies still need the creativity and recuperation that play provides.

The idea of therapy has perhaps crossed our minds, but how do we know when we should go to therapy? Who is therapy even for? The short answer: therapy is for everyone, at any time!

Our words have power. Words can carry love and comfort, joy, and peace; however, they can also carry hurt and perpetuate stigma. Stigmatizing language can be overtly recognizable but, more commonly, it is covert and subtle. What can we do to minimize our own stigmatizing language?

Structure and routine help us stay organized and on task and allow us to be successful in our endeavors. Additionally, freedom, flow, and creativity are necessary parts of our lives. Structure and flow don’t have to be in conflict; each can coexist to create a healthy balance in life.

When you have big goals and dreams that are taking time to grow and cultivate, it can be easy to get down. Maybe you’re working toward a growing business, preparing to move across the county, or want to make a major life change. In order to remain focused on and working toward your big plans, try these strategies.

Knowing how to make a change and actually making that change are two very different things. Often what stands in the way is avoidance. Avoidance differs from procrastination in that avoidance is typically tied to a mental/emotional block that persists, while procrastination is more short-term and situational.

What does finding balance really mean? Is it really possible for two opposing views to be true simultaneously? How can we find a middle ground? One tool and practice to utilize is living in the gray area and not getting stuck in black and white thinking patterns.

How wonderful that the messages we hear online, from friends, and from (healthy) workplaces now include the importance of self-care. However, the notion of self-care has turned into its own sort of trend…to the point that it has become an excuse for unhealthy behaviors.

Our relationship to our bodies is simultaneously the most intimate, connected, informed relationship and the most volatile, time-consuming, and fragile one. Our bodies are wise. They house intuition and cues; they know.

Making good choices, improving decision-making, avoiding indecision… Sometimes these tasks come easily and without much issue. At other times and, likely depending on the context, these tasks can become overwhelming, unbearable, or just annoying, often leading to avoidance and ambivalence.