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A Deeper Way to Start the New Year: Therapy Intensives Explained
Looking for deeper new year therapy support? Learn how therapy intensives and EMDR intensives support insight, regulation, and lasting change.
How to Set Realistic Mental Health Goals for the New Year
The start of a new year often comes with pressure to change everything at once—but mental health doesn’t work that way. If you’re feeling burned out or anxious, traditional New Year’s resolutions may be doing more harm than good. This post explores how to set realistic mental health goals rooted in compassion, emotional well-being, and sustainability, with examples of New Year intentions that prioritize progress over perfection and support long-term healing.
5 Tips for Managing Stress Around Christmas When You’re Healing From Trauma
If holiday stress feels overwhelming or you’re tired of white-knuckling your way through the holidays, you deserve more support. Read for 5 therapist-approved tips for caring for you during the holidays when you’re recovering from trauma. Therapy can help you create safer boundaries, regulate anxiety, and untangle the emotional weight of coping with family during holidays.
How to Navigate Grief During the Holidays
Your grief doesn’t disappear just because the calendar says it’s time to celebrate. Grief during the holidays can feel heavier because the absence of your loved one is felt more deeply. With the right holiday grief support, it’s possible to move through this season with more gentleness, intention, and care.
Why a Pre-Holiday Therapy Intensive Is the Best Gift You Can Give Yourself
A pre-holiday therapy intensive offers an emotional reset before the holidays—helping you feel calm, clear, and grounded amid seasonal stress.
Therapy Intensives Are a Partnership: Here’s How We Work Together
Therapy intensives are a collaborative partnership between client and therapist, creating space for faster, deeper healing. Learn how working together in a therapy intensive supports your trauma recovery and emotional growth.
Understanding the impact of trauma on mental health
If you have experienced trauma and now struggle with your mental health, it is important to remember: this is not a flaw in your character. Developing PTSD or other trauma-related challenges is your brain and body’s natural response to overwhelming experiences. Trauma and mental health are deeply connected, and understanding that connection is the first step toward healing.
Therapy Intensives for Personal and Relational Healing
Therapy intensives are a flexible, focused way to work on your emotional health—whether you’re recovering from trauma, feeling stuck in your personal growth, or looking to strengthen your relationship. They’re not just for “crisis mode.” In fact, many people use intensives to deepen the progress they’ve already made in therapy or to jump-start healing they’ve been putting off.
What to Expect Starting EMDR Therapy
If you’re new to EMDR or even to therapy in general, it’s completely normal to feel nervous or unsure about what to expect. Many people worry they’ll have to dive straight into painful memories or talk about everything all at once. But EMDR therapy, especially for beginners, begins gently and intentionally.