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Parenting the Anxious Child: How to Help Your Child to Flourish: Scottsdale, AZ

Parenting is a rewarding, although sometimes a painful learning experience. If your child suffers from anxiety, the process can be more complex. Seeing them struggle with overthinking, fear, or distress can be exhausting and even heartbreaking. You might not...

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy - Is Your Child Acting Up

How Do I Know if My Child's Behavior Is "Normal" Raising a child is never easy, is it? And when you are the parent of a young child with behavioral challenges, it seems to become a more daunting task....

How Mindfulness Can Relieve Holiday Stress

How To Stay in the Present During The Holidays Do you ever feel you just want to sit and relax, looking at the beautiful outdoors? With the holiday season starting, it may be hard to escape from “life”! The holiday...

Five Ways to Support Your Child/Teen in Counseling

How Do I Help My Child Achieve Better Mental Health? Supporting the decision to seek mental health counseling for your child or teen is a key element in making this a positive step. In our world today, it's hard...

Top Five Signs Your Child's Anger is Excessive

Is My Child's Anger "Normal"? As a parent, you may wonder if your child’s anger is “normal” or if you are dealing with excessive anger issues. Young children have not learned how to use communication tools. A child doesn't...

Codependency - Understanding It and Finding the Ways to Change

Do You Feel The Chains of Codependency In Your Life? Codependency is a complex relationship dynamic. It can present itself as one person sacrificing their needs for others. When this happens, it can be the beginning of unhealthy patterns...

EMDR and Trauma Treatment

What Can EMDR Do For Me? EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing -what can it do for me? EMDR offers several benefits for patients dealing with mental health challenges. Let's look at trauma issues that benefit using EMDR....

Distress Tolerance and DBT - Understanding It there's hope!

What is Distress Tolerance? Distress tolerance means how well we handle tough feelings. Sometimes, we feel sad, angry, or scared. These feelings can be hard to manage. Learning to cope with these feelings is important. It helps us stay...

Ten Signs Of Depression & Effective Steps to Take

Depression can seem to sneak up on you.  Others might start asking you what is wrong, as it seems your attitude and interactions with those around you have changed.  Things you enjoy are no longer giving you the joy...

Managing the Distress Tolerance in your life

Anger is an all-consuming emotion at times, even more so now as we deal with new situations. If you don't get a grip on it, it can affect your quality of life. Anger will damage your relationships and raise...