Do you ever feel like life can get so chaotic that at times you feel you might lose your head if it wasn’t attached to your body? With the hustle and bustle of daily life including jobs, relationships, children, etc., it wouldn’t be a stretch to guess that family time often falls by the wayside. ...read more
What is Going on in my Child’s Brain? A Houston Family Therapist Explains Neuroscience
Have you ever tried to reason with a 4-year-old child who stands in the middle of the grocery store screaming at the top of her lungs because she will not buy the sugar cereal that she wants? Your normally reasonable child seems completely devoid of logic and reason. You feel at a loss to understand ...read more
Back to School Blues?
Close your eyes for a moment... Imagine yourself walking through the hallway of a brand-new workplace. You meet all the qualifications for the job. Yet, your stomach feels twisted up and you’re worried if your coworkers will like you, if they will sit with you at lunch, or listen to your ...read more
The Mindful Family: Tips from a Houston Child Therapist
There are a lot of buzzy words out there in the realm of mental health. It seems like there are so many different ways to improve one’s mental health, yet we still are left not quite sure how to implement these tactics. Additionally, when it comes to our children, figuring out how to help them live ...read more
Play Therapy Explained by a Houston Play Therapist
What is Play Therapy? I invite you to think of the word “play”. Maybe you are thinking of summer days as a child, frolicking through the grass chasing your opponent in a game of tag. Perhaps you are brushing your baby doll's hair while voicing as its caretaker in the world of make-believe. Whatever ...read more
Growing in Empathy with Your Child
Summertime as a parent can bring a wide range of emotions! The relief of a more relaxed schedule can quickly turn into suddenly finding yourself overwhelmed with how to keep your child(ren) engaged. Maybe, we try to jampack the summer with camps and vacations to keep everyone afloat until that ...read more
A Houston, TX Family Therapist Explains How Looking Within Can Help You Better Understand Your Child
Do you ever feel like you truly don’t understand why your child is behaving in a certain way? Maybe they’re showing a lot of big emotions lately in the form of tantrums. Maybe they’re giving you a hard time with bedtime routine. That lack of understanding could be a big why, but what if that ...read more
Looking to Step Up Your Parenting Game? A Houston Therapist Shares Tips
Check out these simple tools and start improving your relationship with your child today! Parenting... Arguably, one of the most important jobs in the world and the one that we receive the least amount of training and preparation for. Each phase of raising a child, or children, brings about its ...read more
Teens and Perfectionism: Ways We Can Help Our Teens by a Houston/Katy Area Teen Therapist
Perfectionism is a struggle that affects more of our teens today than in previous generations. Perfectionism is striving to flawlessly excel at the highest levels. Teens understand logically that perfection is unattainable. Yet there is an emotional component to perfectionism. Emotions don't have to ...read more
Physically Distant…Socially Connected
Social Distancing. It is one of those phrases that we have invented in order to make big and scary events more palatable. Like instead of saying “I am leaving my partner, roommate and lover of the last ten years” or “The holidays will never be the same!” we say we are “consciously uncoupling” – as ...read more