individual therapy, family therapy, relationship therapy
Whitney Christmas MS, LMFT
Beyond Sadness: Understanding Grief

Just because grief is part of the human experience, doesn’t mean we have to cope with it alone, or reign in how we express it. In this post, we’ll explore different kinds of loss and grief, and how to know when it’s time to seek therapy for grief.

Beyond Sadness: Understanding Grief
individual therapy, therapy methods
Leticia Perez, LPC
5 Tips for Healing Your Self Image

In this post, we’ll talk you through healing your self image, the therapy interventions that can help, and five tips for getting started.

5 Tips for Healing Your Self Image
individual therapy, relationship therapy
Gia Scalise
Coming Out to as Queer to Your Straight Partner

Many LGBTQIA+ Americans living today realized their orientation and came out of the closet when they were teenagers, there are many adults who experience this at an older age and have the challenge of coming out to a romantic partner. In this post, we offer some guidance in this post to help you prepare for the conversation.

Coming Out to as Queer to Your Straight Partner
family therapy, individual therapy, relationship therapy
Danielle Zawadzki
Collaboration, Connection, and Community: ...

Not all therapists start out knowing they want to be therapists. Some, like ECC Affiliate Therapist Peter Beer, start out in an entirely different field and realize that human relationships are what they want to dedicate their careers to. In his Q&A for our blog today, Peter shares about what led him to therapy and the approaches he finds beneficial in working with clients. And with June being Men’s Mental Health Month, he shares about the most common issue he sees among young men seeking therapy for the first time—loneliness—and how he coaches them through it.

Collaboration, Connection, and Community: Q&A with ECC Therapist Peter Beer
individual therapy, therapy methods
Gia Scalise
Applying Harm Reduction in Mental Health Therapy

In a therapy setting, harm reduction is a useful–and proven–approach to treating people who engage in higher risk behaviors. In this post, we explore how and why harm reduction is improving mental health outcomes. 

Applying Harm Reduction in Mental Health Therapy

self talk

Meta-Emotions: Having Feelings about your Feelings

Meta-Emotions: Having Feelings about your Feelings

Two friends Paul and Marty are out for a coffee catching up about life and work. At some point near the end of their catch up, Marty mentions a recent promotion - a promotion Paul himself had been vying for as well (unbeknownst to Marty). This sparked immediate jealousy in Paul. Slowly after his initial glimmer of envy, Paul quickly began to become angry toward himself for feeling jealous, which spirals him into self-shame and deeper despair. He thinks to himself, ”how can I be feeling this way? I am such a “bad friend”.”

GIVE to Yourself

GIVE to Yourself

Dialectical Behavior Therapy’s (DBT) GIVE is a powerful therapeutic tool I find myself returning to over and over again in my work with clients, particularly in strengthening interpersonal communication skills. Recently, when preparing for a session, I was thinking of new ways to treat negative self-talk; realizing there is great potential in applying GIVE not only to communication with others, but also toward one’s self! Today I would like to introduce you to Marsha Linehan’s GIVE and how it can be used for positive self-talk.

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