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Maximizing Your Counseling Internship Experience
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10 Tips for Adults with ADHD
Below you'll find 10 tips for adults with ADHD.
4 Things To Remember When Facing Rejection
Facing rejection is a hard thing to do. Here are 4 things that are important to remember when facing rejection.
5 Steps to Mindful Eating
Learn how to have a healthy relationship to food with these 5 easy steps to mindful eating.
5 Ways to Boost Your Body Confidence
To help you feel good about the way you look, a Philadelphian Center City therapist has identified the top 5 ways you can reprogram your mind to boost your body confidence.
5 Ways to Fix Communication With Your Partner Today
Communication with your partner can be a struggle at any stage in your relationship. The following 5 steps provide you with an overview of effective strategies to improve your communication with you partner now.
7 Essential Steps to Making Change Real
In this tip, you'll find 7 essential tips to making real change in your life.
Asserting Boundaries
Living With Autism: A 5 step formula to use when asserting needs and boundaries to friends, family members, peers, and authority figures.
Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT)
A Description of Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) : Scientific research, Usage, and Effects
A Doctors Visit for Bulimia Nervosa Typically Includes
In this tip, you'll be provided with a brief understanding of what would happen at a doctors office for bulimia nervosa.
A Gratitude Tree
A gratitude tree is a self help anxiety reduction exercise designed to teach people the art of positive thinking.
A Guide to Bottoming
Ever thought about being on the receiving end of anal sex, but have never tried it before? This article will teach ways on how to go about bottoming.
A Guide to Topping
Have you and your partner been interested in doing anal? This article will go into depth on topping aspect of anal sex and give step-by-step instructions on how to have anal sex.
About Loss
A tip about loss.
Accepting Happiness
An exercise to help millenials, twenty-thirty somethings, find new ways accept happiness and other positive feelings
Accepting Your Partners Limitations
Techniques for accepting your partner's limitations
ACT Therapy: Accepting and Being Mindful
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is about acknowledging our emotions from a non-judgmental standpoint, which equips the person to better handle uncomfortable emotional states. Here is an exercise that helps facilitate that.
Compulsion Treatment
In this tip, you'll find many links to resources regarding a variety of compulsions
Adjusting to a Diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder
I just learned I have Dissociative Identity Disorder and I am experiencing many conflicting emotions about this. Is this normal?
Admiring People with an Eating Disorder
The Myth VS The Reality: Admire people who do not listen to their hunger
Adult Attention Deficit
What is adult attention deficit disorder and what does it mean?
Advocating to Your Doctor About Possible Vaginismus
Things just haven’t seemed right with sex. You find yourself avoiding or dreading penetration because you find it difficult, maybe even painful and uncomfortable. You’ve done the research and reading, and you’re suspecting that you …
African American Women and Interracial Dating
Are you an African American woman who has dated outside her race? You may have had many responses, reactions, ambivalences and other experiences that were both positive and negative. This tip helps you decipher your …
All Kinds of Grief
This article explores the varied types of grief: death of a loved one, losing a job, divorce, children growing up, and bankruptcy. Additionally, some ideas on how to cope are suggested.
All or Nothing Thinking
What is "all or nothing thinking" and how does it skew your cognitive perception?
Negative Emotions
Learn how to allow yourself to feel negative emotions and why it's important. Having trouble regulating your emotions? Feeling hopeless, confused or angry?
Ambivalent Attachment: individual counseling
Learning to be more secure within your relationship takes learning how to voice your needs and acknowledge when they are being met. This tip helps you become more secure by walking you through the steps …
Amount of Fat You Should Consume to Lose Weight
Use this information if you are trying to lose weight through diet changes.
An Insecure Partner
Has there been problems in your relationship lately? Maybe your partner has been too needy or too distant. This article will go in-depth to understand an insecure partner.
Analingus
Analingus, also known as rimming, anal-oral sex, is the act of kissing, licking and/or sliding one’s tongue in and out of another individual’s anus.
Anger
Anger Problems - an overview of how we at the Center for Growth understand Anger Problems.
Anger Management Bomb
Identify how your anger management is like a bomb going off with this exercise.
Anger Management Therapy in Philadelphia
A summary of our anger management program. We now offer services in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, New Mexico, Georgia, and Florida.
Anorexia and Substance Abuse
This tip provides some information on anorexia and substance use
Anorexia and the Doctor
When you have anorexia, learn what to expect at a doctors visit.
Anorexia And The Perfectionist Personality
Many people who have anorexia would describe themselves as perfectionists, and many people trying to recover from anorexia will tell you that they struggle with allowing themselves to be imperfect every day.
Anorexia in Adolescents
Anorexia in adolescents is a serious condition. With the proper support, adolescents are able to overcome their anorexia. However, left untreated, Anorexia Nervosa can lead to a myriad of complications including death. Get the support …
Anorexia Nervosa
The formal definition of anorexia nervosa.
Anxiety
A brief description of anxiety.
Anxiety and Drug Use
Exploring the connection between drug use and onset of anxiety.
Anxiety Assessment & Treatment
A collection of 21 self help tips about anxiety. Written by Licensed therapists.
Anxiety Attacks in the Workplace
Anxiety Attacks in the Workplace: You are in an important meeting at work when out of nowhere you begin to tremble. Your heart starts racing. You feel nauseated. A sense of confusion comes over you …
Anxiety Disorders and Bulimia Nervosa
Types of Anxiety Disorders commonly associated with Bulimia Nervosa.
Anxiety Support Groups in Philadelphia
10 Week Anxiety Support Groups in Philadelphia PA and in Ocean City NJ
Anxiety: Psychotherapy Treatment Options
Are you struggling with anxiety? Explore the most common treatment options to see what is right for you!
Are blebs deflating more than your lung?
Common ways people feel their self esteem has been affected by blebs disease and what you can do to increase your self-esteem.
Do You Have A Gambling Compulsion
Try out this Gambling Quiz to see if you may suffer from gambling compulsion.
Are You Depressed?
Learn how to spot a depressive disorder.
Ashley Madison
With the recent Ashley Madison email leak, individuals are flocking to websites to check and see if their partner has signed up with the site. If you have been having a sneaking suspicious that …
Assertive, Aggressive, and Non-Assertive Communication Styles
This tip is designed to explore three different styles of communication, the payoffs and effects of each, and provide some tips for becoming more assertive.
Attachment
Attachment TheoryHave you ever wondered why some people have such a difficult time sustaining close, personal relationships while others seem to do so with relative ease? How we manage the balance between closeness and distance …
Attachment Theory
This tip looks at different attachment styles adults may have developed through childhood with their parents. Attachment theory works to explain different behaviors portrayed in our adult relationships.
Automatic Negative Thoughts and Core Beliefs
Understanding automatic negative thoughts and core beliefs.
Awaking Your Sexual Self; Getting More Out Of Sex
Your sexual self is in there somewhere! Awaken this side of yourself and learn to enjoy your sex life more.
Baby Blues Support Group in Philadelphia
Learn more about the Center for Growths baby blues support group
Beating Low Self-Esteem
Are you dealing with self-doubt, self-criticism, or low self-esteem? Read on to learn some tips for overcoming low self-esteem and defeating negative self-talk.
Bedtime Ritual for Anxiety Sufferers
Fighting insomnia on a nightly basis? Try these tips to drift into a stress-free slumber.
Befriending your Ex: When is This Okay?
Are you ready to enter into a friendship with an ex? Do you know how to be friends with your ex? Here are a few important areas to considering before agreeing to a friendship.
Being Assertive
If you find yourself struggling with being assertive, here are some ways to help you learn to not only say NO, but to help you find your voice and finally take care of yourself!
Being the Perpetrator of Infidelity
What if you were the perpetrator of infidelity and still wanted to make your marriage work? This can be a scary, unsettling, and confusing time in your life. After all, we often ignore the reality …
Benefits of Exercise
Studies show links between exercise and emotional health.
Benefits of Group Therapy for Eating Disorders
This tip provides some information on the benefits of eating disorder support groups.
Binge Eating and Mindfulness - Sensory Eating Exercise
This Sensory Eating Exercise provides tools to combat the urge to binge.
Binge Eating Disorder Criteria
This tip provides the criteria for binge eating disorder.
binge eating episode associated with
This tip provides a brief understanding of what binge eating episodes are associated with.
Bipolar Disorder Therapy
This tip provides some information on the symptoms of bipolar disorder and what you can do if you struggle with bipolar disorder.
Blaming and Codependency
Learn how to effectively communicate to your partner, friends, or family, without the use of blame or attacking messages. These steps will help you be heard, rather than lead you to arguing about the insignificant …
Body Image Basics
Can you imagine how many industries would go out of business if women stopped hating their bodies?
Body Mass Index (BMI)
This tip helps you calculate your Body Mass Index (BMI).
Boost Your Libido
Discover new ways to boost your libido, including using lubrication, dildos, and reading books that turn you on.
Boost Your Self-Confidence With A Mantra
How to boost your self-confidence in just a few minutes: If you’re just about to go into an important meeting, give the biggest presentation of your life, or are just having one of those days …
Brain Change
We have far more power to alter our own brains, behavior, personality and reality than previously thought possible. We can choose – at any time – to initiate a BRAIN CHANGE.
Breaking the Habit of Giving Too Much
This tip helps you work on skills to break the habit of giving too much.
Breastfeeding Versus Formula
Breastfeeding or formula, what to do? That is the question that many new moms struggle with.
Building a Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Network
If you are beginning to question your sexuality, being part of a gay, lesbian and bisexual network can be one of your biggest supports
Red/Yellow/Green Light Sex Exercise for Couples
Use the activity below to practice talking to your partner about sex, and to expand your “menu” of activities for intimacy and arousal.
Bulimia Nervosa
Bulimia Nervosa is a Psychological disorder characterized by preoccupation with body image and binge eating followed by some type of purging (e.g. laxative abuse, vomiting) in an attempt to compensate for the binge. The nature
Bulimia Nervosa and Substance Abuse
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Caring for your Depressed Brain: 50 Tiny Nice Things exercise
Use this activity developed by Center City therapists to treat your depression.
Categorizing Anxiety
Categorizing Anxiety - learn the difference between anxiety types?
Causes of Prenatal and Postpartum Depression
This tip provides some information on prenatal depression and postpartum depression.
Challenging Your Cognitive Distortions
Challenging your cognitive distortions. Breaking down the steps.
Change How You Feel About Depression
An exercise in managing meta-emotions for those who struggle with depression
Changing All or Nothing Thinking
This tip helps to answer the question "how do I change all or nothing thing?".
Changing Careers
Job Satisfaction: Things To Think About Before Changing Careers Scenario 1 - changing careers So you start at a new job, maybe your first job in a real career. You fill in all the paperwork
Cheaters: Who And Why
Why do people cheat? One reason is that our culture has changed dramatically which yields ideas of open sexuality, freedom to do what one pleases, access to the Internet which exposes us to various stimulus …
Childhood Depression
Childhood Depression Depression is the single most common mental health problem in adults and is becoming increasingly more common in children and teens. An estimated 5 percent of children and teens will have symptoms of
Children and Trauma
Children can be traumatized by the tragic events they see reported on the news or that happen in their own lives, such as an incident at school or something frightening in the news. There are …
Choosing Spirituality
What spirituality looks like is different for each of us. This tip helps the reader find their spirituality.
Circle Activity for Negative Thoughts
Are you struggling with negative thoughts? Here is an activity to try!
Codependency: Thought Patterns
A tool to identify toxic thought patterns and how they present themselves in adulthood.
Combating Your Low Sexual Self Esteem
Ways to improve your sexual self esteem, developed by sex therapists in Philadelphia.
Coming back from Tragedy
It can be difficult to recover after a tragedy has happened. Each day it seems they happen more and more frequently. This article will help you in coming back from a tragedy.
Coming Out To Parents
So you've come out to most people in your life, but the last people to tell are you parents. This could be for a variety of reasons, but this article will focus on coming out …
Common Causes of Vaginismus/GPPPD
Vaginismus, now classified as Genito-Pelvic Pain Penetration Disorder (GPPPD), makes penetrative sex unpleasant, challenging, or downright impossible. Although seeing a gynecologist is necessary for an official diagnosis, knowing if you experience some of the causes …
Common Cognitive Distortions
This is an overview of Common Cognitive Distortions. Cognitive Distortions tend to occur when we are stuck in our negative thinking. These types of thoughts are especially common for individuals struggling with anxiety or depression …
Common Communication Problems for People With Anorexia
This tip identifies the most common communication stumbling blocks that people with Anorexia Nervosa struggle with and provides readers with concrete suggestions of what one can do to overcome this problem.
Common Patterns in Women’s Groups for Emotional Eating
This tip provides some information on common patterns in women's groups for emotional eating.
Common Patterns of People with Binge Eating Disorder
This tip provides some common patterns of people with binge eating disorders.
Common Patterns of People with Bulimia Nervosa
This tip provides some common patterns of people with Bulimia Nervosa
Communicate without Anxiety
You have an idea that you want to communicate differently, but it can be difficult to make the behavioral changes necessary to put the new idea to work. Do not let the fear or anxiety …
Communication for Couples: Focusing on Solvable Problems
Couples Therapy / Marriage Counseling in Problems in Philadelphia, Ocean City, Santa Fe, Mechanicsville: ways for couples to communicate about solvable problems. This is for the couple that communicates fairly well most of the time
Communication Strategies
Communication can be a difficult for many people, but that doesn't make it any less important when you are in a relationship.
Compensatory Behaviors used in Bulimia Nervosa
The most common Compensatory behaviors (not including excessive exercise) used in Bulimia Nervosa are (in order of most prevalent to least prevalent) * Self-induced vomiting* Laxative abuse* A combination of Laxative abuse and self-induced vomiting*
Compulsive Eating and Watching Television
Many people find that when they are watching TV, they eat, and eat, and eat. People often wonder why they do that when they are trying to lose weight, and don’t really want to eat …
Coping After An Affair: When Your Suspicions Are Confirmed
You just fount out your partner had an affair. Now what?
Coping Skills For Anxiety
Use this tip to try some new coping skills for anxiety.
Coping Through the Holidays
Coping Through the Holidays: Survival Strategies for Widows and Widowers
Coping with a Miscarriage
Coping with a miscarriage is more common and difficult to emotionally cope with than most people realize.
Coping with a passive aggressive partner
Recognize and cope with a passive aggressive partner: learning to read between the lines. A tip geared for women.
Spontaneous Pneumothorax: Things to Know
Coping With A Spontaneous Pneumothorax AKA Bleb Disease: Top 12 Things to Know. (Therapy in Philadelphia)
Coping with Grief
Coping with grief. At some point we all have to deal with loss.
Coping with Infidelity
Pain, embarrassment, anger, sadness, insecurity, and other powerful emotions can all be felt when you’re the victim of cheating. To help you process all of these uncomfortable emotions, we recommend the following exercise.
Coping with PMDD
Suffering from severe pre-menstrual pain and discomfort? Here are strategies to cope with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder.
Corporal Punishment in African American Families
“Spare the rod, spoil the child”. If you are familiar with this saying, you are very familiar with the idea of corporal punishment. In some African American households, corporal punishment is used as a way …
Couple's Sculpting Exercise
Understand your relationship better with this playful exercise
Couples and Money
This tip is geared for couples with a shared bank account.
Couples and Their Financial History
Exploring your own financial history, as well as your partner's, will give you better understanding of your spouse's finanial habits and therefore diffuse future conflicts.
Couples Communication Skills Exercise
Couples face many challenges in their relationships. One of the most common issues couples deal with is poor communication skills. Couples engaging in poor communication skills may break up, file for divorce, engage in constant …
Couples Therapy: I Am Check Ins
Create change in your relationship using I Am Check-Ins
Couples' Exercise: Unpacking the Fight
Use this couples' exercise to understand, repair and prevent future fights.
Create Emotional Independence by Responding Versus Reacting
Learning how to respond versus react during conflicts with our loved ones can be challenging. This article provides step-by-step instructions and concrete examples about how to have more productive conversations during conflict by creating and …
Creating a Grief Collage
Creating a collage to cope with grief.
Creating Boundaries After An Affair: Technology and the Internet
It comes to no shock that we live in a technologically advanced world. How do you create boundaries after an affair with technology and the Internet?
Creating Positive Affirmations
Creating positive affirmations to combat anxiety.
Critical Weight
This tip provides a definition of critical weight.
Curbing the Masturbation Habit at the Office
Identify the stressors that may trigger you to masturbate at the office, and how to control your desire to do so.
Curious About Anal Sex
Are you curious about anal sex, but not sure where to begin? Then keep reading.
DARE: A four step approach to anxiety management
The DARE approach is an easy, four-step approach to help reduce anxiety and panic symptoms.
Dating After Infidelity
You were in a relationship, your partner cheated on you, it was devastating, and now you want to date again. However, the question becomes, “How do you date after infidelity?” “How do you trust again?” …
Dating Vs. Porn Compulsion
Evaluating your relationship with porn and how it helps or hinders your dating relationships.
Dealing with procrastination
Sometimes it can be easier to put off things than do them in the moment. Time and time again different activities or assignments get put to the sideline till the very last minute. Then all …
Death of a Spouse
There are few events in life as painful as the death of a spouse. Grief therapy can help.
Decoding Emotions
The following steps give you a deep understanding to your emotional process and in turn help you decide on what actions to take next.
Denial
Denial - one of the stages within the grief process
Depression Support Group in Philadelphia, PA and Ocean City NJ
Ongoing Anxiety & Depression Support Group in Philadelphia and Ocean City
Depression VS Feeling Down
Understand the difference between Depression vs feeling down
Determining if your Relationship is Worth Saving
Is your relationship worth saving? Ask yourself these question to help you find out.
Dieting and Weight Loss Quiz
How accurate are your perceptions about dieting and weight loss? Take the Dieting and Weight Loss Quiz to find out. http://www.thecenterforgrowth.com/tips/amount-of-fat-you-should-consume-to-lose-weight
Differences with your Therapist
Ever wonder how to talk to your therapist about very blatant differences? This can seem like a weird or awkward conversation to have, but it can change your experience in therapy and help you more!
Different Types of Sexual Pain
Many conditions cause female sexual pain, otherwise known as dyspareunia. Some of the conditions that cause female sexual pain include: vulvodynia, endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, sexually transmitted infections, vaginal infections, fibroids, ovarian cysts, cervical problems …
Different Ways To Handle A Sexual Compulsion
Different ways to handle a sexual compulsion.
Disclosing Your Partner's Sexual Affair
Being cheated on is a painful experience that often feels devastating. How do you figure out the pros and cons about disclosing to friends and family your pain, anger, and betrayal surrounding your partner’s affair …
Discovering Motivation to Change
This tip is designed to help you evaluate whether or not you are ready to change a bad habit right now.
Dissecting Panic
Getting at the root of your anxiety.
Become More Aware of Your Switching
This advanced tip is designed for people with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) who already recognize all of their alters and the host. For people with DID, switching is described as the process of changing from …
Dissociative Identity Disorder: Creating a Timeline
Having a timeline of one’s life can help someone with DID piece together the significant events of their life, as well when each alter developed.
Dissociative Identity Disorder: Mapping Your System
This tip provides an exercise to map your system for people struggling with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).
Do I Have A Sexual Compulsion?
Take the sexual compulsion quiz and assess yourself.
Do I Have an Eating Disorder
Identifying an eating disorder.
Do You Have Social Anxiety?
It is normal to be nervous, worried, uncomfortable or even anxious in some social situations. f however this worry, nervousness, feelings of being uncomfortable, and anxiety seem to apply to almost all social situations you …
Doctor Visits and Sexual Health
Learn what to ask at a doctor's visit to best get your questions about your sexual health answered.
Does Your Partner Have A Sexual Compulsion
Are you wondering if your spouse / partner has a sexual compulsion? Read this tip.
Don’t React, Respond: How to Better Control Your Emotion
When in an emotional situation, it can be difficult to control your emotions. It is important, however, when trying to communicate a specific message, to respond in these situations, rather than simply reacting. This article …
Easy Distractions for Dealing with Anxiety
No matter who you are, chances are you’ve experienced anxiety before. Though there can be root causes for a person’s anxiety, this article is going to focus on easy distractions for dealing with anxiety …
Eating Disorder Feeling List
This tip helps those with eating disorders recognize their feelings.
Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified
This tip provides additional information on eating disorders not otherwise specified in the DSM.
Eating Disorder Voice: Eating Disorder Recovery
This tip provides an insight into eating disorder voices.
Eating Disorders and Sexual Trauma
Locating self tips on eating disorders and sexual trauma or meet with a therapist in Philadelphia.
Effective Communication: Learning to Listen and Validate
A proven communication technique that everyone should know!
Effects of Drinking Water on a Diet
This tip provides some information on the effects of drinking water on a diet.
Emotional Eating
What is emotional eating?
Emotional Eating Quiz
This Emotional Eating Quiz helps determine if you are an emotional eater.
Emotional Independence: A Solution to Codependence
When people struggle with asserting their needs and desires within personal relationships they may be in an emotionally fused state also known as codependence. This article will explore how emotional independence can combat codependence and …
Emotional Labor and Relationships
When we think of labor, we often associate it with the physical components; work, chores, and projects quickly come to mind. However, labor also involves the emotional realm, which often connects to our romantic relationships …
End of Relationship Anger
Has your relationship or marriage ended and do you find yourself feeling really angry? Anger is a very normal emotion to feel when a relationship ends. There are many reasons that you may feel angry …
End of Relationship Anxiety
Ending a relationship, especially if it was unexpected or unwanted begins a grief process like other types of loss of which anxiety can be one of the emotions experienced.
End of Relationship Depression
One of the first emotions people think about when a relationship ends is sadness. A loss has occurred and most people expect to feel sad for a short period of time. However, many times that …
Enjoying Blindfolds In Your Life
Enhancing intimacy: the art of using blindfolds.
Entering Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa
Typical feelings about entering therapy for anorexia nervosa.
Erectile Dysfunction Survey
Take this survey to better understand your ED and help health care providers pinpoint possible causes.
Eroticizing the Foot
Eroticizing the foot, a step by step guide.
Evaluating Coping Skills
This tip is designed to help you answer a few questions about using coping skills for anxiety and depression.
Exactly What Is Asexuality
The United States is slowly getting more sex savvy, so you’ve probably heard the term “asexuality” pop up with friends or online. You think that you have a decent understanding of asexuality, but you’re still …
Examples of Blame-Free Communication
In order to effectively express yourself and to address conflict, there are six basic steps to follow in order to successfully confront conflict with a friend, loved one, partner, etc. Read the following examples to …
Exercise
Ever wonder why one should exercise? Or what type of exercise a person should do if they are elderly, suffer from chronic pain or an eating disorder? If so, then keep reading . . .
Expectations For Marriage Counseling
This tip will help guide your expectations for marriage counseling regardless of the presenting issue you two are having.
Exploring the Pleasures of Anal Sex and Stimulation
Exploring the pleasures of anal sex and anal stimulation
Exploring Your Communication Style
Gain a deeper understanding of which communication style you are- assertive, aggressive, passive, passive-aggressive- and how you can make each style work for you.
Expressing Needs and Sexual Desires
A sexual exercise designed to help couples learn how to express their needs and sexual desires.
Expressing Your Emotional Labor
Emotional labor is the process of repressing and/or emphasizing feelings that are deemed desirable within a situation. Though some degree of emotional labor is necessary, repressing our feelings can be too much at times.
Extramarital Affair
Have you or your partner had an extramarital affair? If so, you are not alone. In the majority of long-term relationships, at least one person has “cheated” at least once.
Postpartum Extreme Sadness: Postpartum Depression Therapy
If you are feeling extremely sad during pregnancy or postpartum take your symptoms seriously. Ask for help.
Eye Contact Challenge
Use this daily eye contact challenge to build intimacy within your relationship. For more support strengthening your intimate relationship(s) call 215 922 5683 x 3 and speak with a couples therapist today.
Facebook and Breakups
Do you use Facebook as a way to keep you connected to past relationships? Do you find yourself checking Facebook updates of an ex often as a way to stay updated? Facebook is still new …
Family Roles: In the Compulsive / Dependent System
Often in family system struggling with problematic compulsivity and depression, it is common for family members to take on specific roles with the intention of helping the addicted person. Unfortunately the dysfunctional roles can contribute …
Fear of Flying: Anxiety Therapy in Philadelphia, Ocean City
How to cope with a fear of flying.
Fear of Flying Exercise
People have phobias about all types of things. You may have heard of people having a fear of heights, death, public speaking, and spiders. A very common phobia is aerophobia and refers to a fear …
Fear of Infidelity: Couples Counseling in Philadelphia
Fear of Infidelity: Couples Counseling in Philadelphia PA, Ocean City NJ, Mechanicsville VA, and Sante Fe NM Every couple, at some point, faces the fear of infidelity. No matter how strong the relationship, each of
Feeling Guilty about Experiencing Postpartum Depression
Common reasons women feel guilty about experiencing postpartum depression and tips on what to do.
Feeling Like a Team in your Relationship
Use this simple exercise to foster a sense of teamwork within your relationship.
Feeling Lonely: How to Fight the Stigma
How to fight the stigma of loneliness and embrace the challenge to find yourself again.
Feeling “numb” from police work?
Both the public’s view of police officers and their own fellow officers, expect them to know how to handle extremely stressful situations and to not be effected by them, which is humanly impossible.
Fibromyalgia and Mental Health
Understand the links between fibromyalgia and anxiety, depression, and grief, and learn how therapy can help. To find a therapist in Philadelphia, call the Center for Growth at 267-324-9564.
Fifty Shades of Grey: How it’s Positive
The positive aspects of 50 Shades of Grey from a Sex Therapist's point of view.
Financial Secrets in a Relationship
Withholding of information and dishonesty around money can arise when partners do not talk or work together with finances. One partner might fear being judged for specific purchases, so they open a new credit card …
Finding Motivation To Change
This tip is designed to help you evaluate your motivation to change or stop a negative behavior.
Finding Your Authentic Self Exercise
Authenticity can be a hard concept for many. Furthermore, identifying who you truly are at your core can be difficult. The following exercise helps you begin the process of leading a more honest and authentic …
Flirting Language For Skyping
Using Intentional Language To Develop Your Own Flirty Nickname For Skyping.
Gambling Compulsion Recovery Near Me
This tip provides some techniques to recovery from gambling compulsion.
Gamblers frequently also suffer from
Gamblers frequently also struggle with Anxiety Disorders, Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Mood Disorders - such as Bi-Polar & Depression.
Getting Artsy In The Bedroom: Finger Painting and Sex
Looking to bring some creativity to your sex life? Try finger-painting!
Getting intimate without ever taking your clothes off
Learn how to get intimate without ever taking off your clothes.
Getting Over Being Dumped
Being dumped is a tough experience to go through. Building yourself back up after being dumped can be even tougher. This artilce will help you get started on the path to getting over being dumped.
Getting the Most Out of Your Internship
How to get the most out of your internship.
Getting to know your Turn Ons Using the Five Senses
This exercise will help you identify your natural turn ons by involving the five senses to help you have better sex.
Good VS Bad Anxiety: Anxiety Therapy in Philadelphia
Anxiety can be either good or bad for a person, so what makes anxiety good or bad?
Grief and Bargaining
What does bargaining do when someone is going through a loss?
Grief During the Holiday Season
Grief is always difficult. But grief during the holiday season can be particularly tough. Here are some tips to help you through grief during the holiday season from The Center for Growth in Philadelphia.
Grief Therapy
Grief therapy can be an additional and effective support for individuals coping with the loss of a loved one, or any type of significant loss/change in life.
Grieving the Loss of a Relationship
Any loss no matter how big or small triggers a grief process. A person does not have to die for you to feel grief.
Handling Feelings of Anger After Loss: Grief Therapy
Working through your anger after a loss.
Handling Unhelpful Friends after the Arrival of a Baby
After the birth of your new baby: tips for handling unhelpful friends and family.
Having a conversation to assert your boundaries.
A walk-through guide to have a conversation to assert boundaries.
Healthy Narcissism
Healthy narcissism means having a healthy balance between self-love, self-acceptance, and reality. There are benefits to having a healthy dose of self-confidence and the ability to be outgoing. However, there is a limit before the …
Healthy Snacks
Healthy snack suggestions.
Healthy Weight
What is a healthy weight?
Help Over The Holidays
All tips written about Holidays
Helping a Child Gain Positive Attention
Ways to support a child recovering from anorexia.
Helping a Friend Overcome Bulimia
Helping a friend, family member or significant other overcome bulimia / Remember Bulimia is difficult to detect Signs of Bulimia Nervosa often include, but are not limited to * Secretive behavior* Money unaccounted for
Herpes and Self Worth
Herpes and self-worth: The twenty dollar bill exercise.
Herpes Support Group in Philadelphia
Help with Herpes: A Support Group Now Forming * Do you or your partner have genital herpes? * Are you worried about the emotional, physical and sexual impact of herpes?* Do you feel tainted? Afraid
Hidden Hostility: Anger Problems; Anger Management Therapy
Hidden Hostility: Anger Problems; Anger Management Therapy in Philadelphia PA, Ocean City NJ, Mechanicsville VA, and Santa Fe NMTherapy in Philadelphia / Hidden Hostility - Uncovering Passive Aggression (Anger Problems; Anger Management Therapy in Philadelphia
High Sex Drive Or Sexual Compulsion: Sex Therapy
There is a fine line between having a sexual compulsion and having a high sex drive. Learn more about this important distinction.
Holiday Recovery
An exercise to help people who have moved away from home make sense of their new and old worlds.
How Breathing Can Help You Defeat Anxiety: Anxiety Therapy
Breathing techniques designed to reduce anxiety.
How common is binge eating disorder?
How common is binge eating disorder?
How common is Bulimia Nervosa
How common is Bulimia Nervosa? Bulimia affects 1% to 4% of the population. It is more common than Anorexia but usually more difficult for friends and family to detect. Approximately 1% to 3% of middle
How common is obesity?
How common is obesity and what exactly does that term mean?
How Do I find My Spirituality
Steps for discovering ones own sense of spirituality.
How Do I Get The Most Out Of Couples Counseling?
How do I get the most out of couples counseling? Making the decision to invest in your relationship by embarking upon the journey of couples counseling is a huge step towards healing. By making the
How Do You Feel About Feelings?
A tip to help you gain awareness about your feelings through understanding meta-emotions
How is a Personality Disorder Diagnosed? And What Does That Mean?
This tip will help explain how someone gets diagnosed with a personality disorder and what that can mean and look like for their life and relationships.
How is Asperger's Syndrome Diagnosed in Children?
A review of the diagnostic criteria for Asperger’s Syndrome, real life examples, and overview of treatment options.
How Often Should I weigh Myself: Eating Disorders Therapy
How Often Should I Weigh Myself: Eating Disorders Therapy in Philadelphia PA, Ocean City NJ, Mechanicsville VA, and Santa Fe NM How often should I weigh myself? Once a week is a good way to
How Successful Couples Survive Raising Children
The transition-to-parenthood is a stressful phase in a couple's life, however, research has identified several protective factors that influence marital satisfaction. This article explores those predictive factors that help couples remain happy in their romantic …
How to Assess Your Sexual Scripts
How to assess your sexual scripts.
How to become more present
The following are simple steps you can take to enhance your skills and ability in being more present in the day to day.
How To Become Pregnant
Maximize the chances of becoming pregnant.
How To Break Up Like An Adult
Have you been dating someone for a while and not sure how to end things? Does the thought of breaking up with someone make you feel queasy? Are you not sure how to begin having …
How to care for yourself after a breakup
In the days after a break-up, we usually find ourselves in an emotional world-wind. We are not only experiencing overwhelming emotions, but also having to re-organize our lives. In those early days one needs to …
How to Choose the Right Lube
A guide to the different types of sexual lubricants available, and advice on how to choose the best lube for you! Want to have better sex? Talk with a sex therapist.
How to Come Out to Family
The mere thought of sharing with your family that you are questioning your sexual orientation can be anxiety producing. You have no way of knowing how they will respond. Will they be in shock? Will …
How to Create a Positive Outlook
Focusing on the positives in your life, rather than the negatives, can help change your perspective. It is important to remind yourself of the people, accomplishments, memories, and other things in your life that you …
How to Create Emotional Independence Through Language
This article will show couples and families how to create emotional independence through language to combat codependency.
How to Create More Intimacy in Your Relationship
Successful, long-term relationships require intimacy to grow and thrive This article will explore what intimacy is and ways you can create more intimacy in your relationship in four specific areas: emotional, intellectual, physical and spiritual.
How to Date for Data
This tip addresses the major dating task of managing the pull of urgency and the urge to just have fun in the moment by funneling important data needed to make important dating decisions via three …
How To Disarm A Narcissist
The first step to disarm a narcissist is to identify your own “hot buttons.” These are areas that are particularly sensitive for you that automatically send you into “defense mode.” If we slip into this …
How To Feel Good Naked
Sex TherapyIs having a negative body image holding you back from enjoying your sex life? This exercise is designed to help you feel comfortable with your naked body.
How to Fight in Your Relationship
How to fight better with your partner.
How to get a Better Night's Sleep
Are you struggling to fall asleep, or sleep through the night? This article can help you develop healthier habits before going to bed in order to sleep through the night and wake up feeling rested.
How to Get Your Resistant Girlfriend Into Porn
There are a lot of negative associations with pornography. However, it can be a wonderful sexual tool for you and your girlfriend. Therefore, how do you get your resistant girlfriend into porn knowing that certain …
How to Give Yourself Permission to Take Medication
Feeling like you might want to try medication, but struggling to give yourself the permission? A narrative therapy exercise to allow yourself to see a psychiatrist and try it out.
How to Help a Loved One with Anxiety: Anxiety Therapy
Talking someone through the terror. How to become part of the solution and not the problem.
How To Increase Communication In The Bedroom
Whether you find yourself in an old routine,or you want to try something more adventurous in the bedroom, It's all about how communication.
How to Keep Romance Alive After Kids
A key predictor of being able to successfully navigate the transition-to-parenthood period and have your relationship come out intact (and hopefully stronger) is to find ways to deepen intimacy with your partner. This article will …
How to Move in with your Lover
Conversation topics for couples moving in together for the first time
How To Nurture Your Relationship
The following exercise is a way for you and your spouse to demonstrate your ability to care for each other by meeting the other’s identified wants and needs on a daily basis. This is a …
How to Reduce Your Porn Use
Pornography is a sexual tool that has its flaws and benefits. Regardless of its nuanced nature, there can be numerous, legitimate reasons why you would want to reduce your porn use.
How To Share Your Shame In Therapy
Basic tools to help you share your shame within the therapeutic relationship.
How to Shift Your Sexual Scripts
How to shift your sexual scripts
How To Speak Up
How to Regain the Equality in Your Relationship – A Guide for Men.
How to Stop Your Partner From Phubbing
Smartphones have become quite sophisticated; however, ignoring one’s partner through technology has dramatically increased. This phenomenon is called phubbing, and we’re going to discuss how to perceive this in your relationship, as well as how …
How to Survive a Wedding with your Narcissistic Family Member
Personality Disorder TreatmentUse this guide developed by Philadelphia-area therapists to survive a wedding with your narcissistic family member.
How to Write Your Own Positive Affirmations
The practice of positive affirmations can be used to replace your negative thinking, and in turn declare something positive, powerful, and self-loving. The advantage of creating your own affirmations is that they represent and communicate …
How Will Your Baby Impact Your New Marriage
How Will Your New Baby Impact Your Marriage? For many couples, the addition of a new baby into the family is an exciting, joyous, and uncertain time. Whether the couple is dealing with the physiological …
Identifying and Managing Critical Incident Stress In Police Officers
Identifying and Managing Critical Incident Stress In Police Officers. Tools used in stress therapy.
Identifying Toxic Thought Patterns
Identifying toxic thought patterns (schemas) from childhood, and how they affect your relationships.
Identifying When Your Child Could Benefit From Play Therapy
In our opinion, all children ages 3-11 can benefit from play therapy. Play therapy is designed to be fun! From a child’s perspective. Play is one way children make sense of their worlds. This article …
Identifying Your Boundaries
Identifying Your Boundaries: Boundaries are “guidelines, rules or limits that a person creates to identify for him- or herself that are reasonable, safe and permissible ways for other people to behave around him or her
Identifying your triggers with a PTSD trigger table
An exercise to help the PTSD survivor identify their own feelings.
If I am Careful With What I Eat
Why eating properly is not enough.
If I go to get treatment for binge eating, will I lose weight?
If I go to get treatment for binge eating, will I lose weight?
Image Collage
Technique for improving ones self image uncovering the subconscious thought.
Improving Relationships
Improving Relationships - requires taking action. How to take the initiative.
In the Mind of Someone With Anorexia
What is going on in the mind of someone with Anorexia.
Infertility: Asking For Your Needs
Are you sick and tired of your family asking, “When are you going to have a baby?” They are completely oblivious to the months your have been trying to get pregnant. They have no idea …
Infertility: It is Okay to Decline a Friend’s Baby Shower
Another baby shower invite and you panic. Why does attending a baby shower always make you feel so bad about your own infertility? How can being happy for your friend’s pregnancy be so easy for …
Infertility: Your Husband As Your Support System
Are you and your husband experiencing infertility? The diagnosis of infertility can be painful and traumatic. You may be experiencing emotions that may include sadness, grief, loss, anger, guilt, and loneliness. Infertility may have caught …
Internet Compulsions
This tip provides the definition and some signs of internet compulsive behavior.
Interviewing Esteem
Tips for successfully getting a job!
Is everyone with binge eating disorder overweight?
Is everyone with binge eating disorder overweight?
Is it Low Self Esteem?
How to recognize and come to terms with low self-esteem when a poor self-concept is the root of your problems.
Is It Okay To Masturbate When You Are Pregnant?
Just because you are pregnant doesn't mean you can't continue to masturbate. Learn about techniques you can use to increase your level of sensation.
Is weight fluctuation common for those with binge eating disorder?
Is weight fluctuation common for those with binge eating disorder?
Jealousy in Open Relationships
These exercises are designed to help couples experiencing jealousy in their relationship(s). Learn to identify triggers for jealousy and process your feelings.
Job Finding
Tips to Help Make the Transition from a Job to a Career
Job Hunt Slump
Job Search Got You Down? Here’s How to Keep Your Head Up.
Journaling with Dissociative Identity Disorder
The power of journaling. Ways to use your journal in the healing process.
Not Having An Orgasm Doesn't Mean I Am Not Enjoying It
Despite not having an orgasm every time you have sex, there are still benefits to having sex both physically and emotionally.
Keeping A Relationship Old School In a New Age
With so many ways to communicate to your partner, it's easy to lose site of a face-to-face connection. Learn what might happen with technology use in relationships and how to combat that.
Keeping a Routine During the Grief Process
Grief therapy in Philadelphia: keeping a routine during the grief process.
Keeping a Spiritual Journal
Keeping a spiritual journal is a wonderful way to document your progress and see how far you’ve come. Here's how.
Keeping Your Boundaries Over the Holidays
The holiday season is about being mindful, present, and grateful, however this season creates a sense of pressure to achieve perfection, and it is easy to lose sight of your priorities, as well as your …
Key actions to take when discussing money
Taking these recommended key actions to discuss money with your partner will help you stay goal oriented, productive, and less frustrated.
WorryKnowing When Its More Than Worry
Recognize and respond to anxiety and panic disorders - Knowing When It’s More Than Worry
Learn About Premature Ejaculation
Have you had a difficult time maintaining an erection? Advanced self help treatment strategies are outlined.
Learning How To Learn
Get the most out of your learning experience by knowing how you learn and other basics to the learning process.
Letting Go of Expectations
It’s always good to strive for more, but sometimes when we have too many or too high of expectations, they can create rigid thinking of what’s “supposed to be.” Sometimes having no expectations can lead …
Letting Go of the Dream: Grieving the Loss of a Love
The end of a marriage or a significant relationship is a huge loss. When it is sudden it can be especially devastating.
Letting Go Of Your Perfectionism
Techniques for letting go of perfectionism.
Letting Go On Your Own Terms
Personal honor rituals - letting go on your own terms: Losing someone you love is heartbreaking. Grieving is a challenge, grieving well is even harder.
Letting Yourself Fall in Love
Tips for people wanting to fall in love who have trouble letting themselves go all in
Life After The End Of A Marriage: Creating a New Vision
To help you say goodbye to your marriage and create a new vision of what life after marriage might be, we have created a self-help exercise that will take approximately 1/2 hour to complete.
Living with Chronic Fatigue
For those living with chronic fatigue.
Looking For Patterns in Your Social Anxiety
Exploring which social situations are more triggering than others will reveal to you important patterns about your social anxiety. Use this tip to help you explore some of the possible patterns of you social anxiety.
Losing a Pet
Grief Therapy: Thoughts and healing strategies for losing a pet.
Losing Weight
How do I learn how to lose weight?
Loss of Someone You Know
When you lose someone close, it can be a difficult and devastating experience. This tip provides some stages of the grieving process.
Loving a Narcissist
Narcissistic individuals are great at drawing people in. They are so great in fact, that it’s pretty easy for anyone to fall in love with a narcissist. But it’s very difficult to remain in love …
Major Depression and Dysthymic disorder
What are the symptoms of major depression and dysthymic disorder?
Make Your Own Anxiety Workbook
Develop an anxiety workbook to release anxiety. This book can be modified to release anger, depression etc.
Make-Up Sex: Turn On or Off? Know Thyself ( and Thy Partner)
Make-up sex: Turn on or off? Know theyself and they partner.
Making Skype Sexy: Sex Therapy
Making skype sexy.
Making the Transition from College to Career
The end of college is only one short month away….now what? This tip helps you transition from college to career.
Males with Anorexia Nervosa
Are there males with anorexia? Yes. Find out more here.
Managing Anxiety in a New Relationship
If you've found yourself in a new relationship and your anxiety is getting the better of you, read on. This tip can help you to understand how to manage your concerns and worries while also …
Managing Anxiety: I See/I Hear/ I Feel Exercise
Use this exercise to help you manage and prevent anxiety.
Marriage Counseling Philadelphia
A collection of articles about couples and communication written by relationship therapists and couples counselors in Philadelphia.
Masturbation for Self (women only)
Masturbation can be a very relaxing, fun and exciting activity. Read this tip to learn how to pleasure yourself.
Maximizing your Pre-Cana experience
How to maximize your Pre-Cana experience.
Medical Complications Associated with Bulimia Nervosa
Medical Complications Associated with Bulimia Nervosa: remember always talk to your medical doctor if you or someone in your care has Bulimia Nervosa. Make sure the doctor is informed about the eating disorders. If the
Medical Doctors and Anorexia
Why seeing a medical doctor is important for people struggling with anorexia.
Medication for Adult ADHD
The goal of medication for Adult ADHD is to reduce hyperactivity, increase attention and the ability to focus, and to reduce impulsive behaviors. Stimulant medication is generally the most effective medication for the treatment of
personality disordersMeeting Your System
Getting your alters to know each other is the first step to having your system (all of your parts) work cooperatively with each other. This tip may help those with DID meet their system of …
Mental Health Care and Seasonal Affective Disorder
Seasonal Affective Disorder is mental health problem, and is not the same as depression. While “SAD” feels like a depression, the onset and triggers are different, and the treatment can require different techniques. Continue reading …
Metabolism
Definition of Metabolism
Mindful Sex: A Guide To Becoming Fully Present Sexually
Becoming sexually present. Mindfulness sexual exercises.
Mindfulness and Hunger Awareness
This Mindful Breathing Inventory Exercise helps you control the urge to binge by teaching you to fully check in with your levels of hunger, satiety and fullness.
Mirror checking and the Traps for Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Mirror checking is just one of the many rituals individuals with Body Dysmorphic Disorder develop. While the intention to glance briefly in the mirror may seem harmless, it often doesn’t stop there with just a …
More about Binge Eating Disorder
More about Binge Eating Disorder
Most People Who Diet and Lose Weight Manage to Maintain the Loss
Do people who diet and lose weight manage to maintain the loss?
Multicultural Competence with Clients
As the world becomes more and more diverse it's important to bring an understanding of diversity into therapy. If you are a psychologist, marriage counselor, social worker, psychiatrist or clinical therapist, it’s important to have …
My Child Just got Diagnosed with Autism, What does this mean?
An explanation of DSM criteria for how Autism is Diagnosed, Prevalence Rates, and Basic Treatment Options
Narcissism and Shame Treatment and Tips
Facing one’s shame is necessary in creating meaningful and intimate relationships. Narcissist’s issues with shame is a major reason narcissists struggle to maintain friendships, experience true intimacy, and struggle with self-esteem.
Narcissism: Common Thought Patterns
This guide will help you identify and understand narcissistic thought patterns.
Narcissism: The concerns and pitfalls
There is a difference between healthy narcissism and unhealthy narcissism. Narcissism begins to take the dark to unhealthy when reality and empathy are no longer there for the individual. What separates unhealthy from healthy is …
Navigating Living Alone Together
Figuring out how you are going to live, alone or together, as a couple is difficult. Here are some reasons for living alone versus apart, pros and cons for living alone, and questions you should …
Navigating Online Dating
Dating can be difficult, dating online can be foreign. This tip gives guidance to finding what you're looking for online.
Negative Self Talk
A guide to recognize negative thoughts and how to stop them from impacting your communication to yourself and others.
Negative Stories and Anxiety
When life is uncertain and your anxiety heightens, have you ever made up really negative stories that just continue to raise your feelings of anxiety? You may be asking what I mean by a negative …
New Relationship and Facebook
If you’re thinking of communicating with your new partner on Facebook, learn helpful tools on how to successfully manage a budding relationship in the land of social networking.
Not Being The First
This article helps you to work through not being your partner's first engagement or husband/wife, or parent to their children.
Noticing Your Emotional Labor in Relationships
Emotional labor is something that we do every day, yet rarely pay attention to. To help ensure that you have a healthy balance between your feelings felt and feelings expressed, noticing your emotional labor is …
Obesity
What does obesity mean?
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
For a diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder, the obsessions and or compulsions are time-consuming (minimum of one hour a day) and cause a lot of distress for the individual experiencing them.
Obstacles and Coping Skills for Sexual Compulsion
Read on to learn about obstacles and coping skills when handling a sexual compulsion.
Our philosophy about Pregnancy Childbirth and the First Year
What is the Center for Growth's philosophy on pregnancy, childbirth, and the first year?
Overcoming Anxiety: Moving Beyond: Anxiety Therapy
Tips on how to overcome anxiety.
overeating versus binging
What is the difference between overeating versus binging?
Overview of Spontaneous Pneumothorax
A Medical Treatment Overview of Spontaneous Pneumothorax AKA Bleb Disease.
Painful Sex: Genito-Pelvic Pain/Penetration Disorder
A guide to different categories of sexual pain, and some tips for dealing with painful sex.
Panic Attacks
What is a panic attack and initial steps one can take to manage it.
Panic Attacks and Psychiatry: Should I take medication daily or as-needed?
If you have ever told a psychiatrist or primary care provider about experiencing a panic attack, chances are they’ve offered you a limited prescription for xanax or another tranquilizer to use “as needed.” The implication
Parenting An Overview
Parenting An OverviewWhen is the last time you thought about what you want for child when (s)he grows up? What kind of life do you hope (s)he has? Have you done your best to prepare …
Parenting A Distant Teenager
When your teen distances themselves it can feel difficult to know how to reconnect. Here are some ways to engage and interact with your teen to help strengthen your relationship.
Parenting and ADHD/ADD during Homework and at Home Task Times
It can be very difficult to maintain a balance to dealing with your frustrations as a working parent and managing your child’s inattention during homework/task times. As you read above, knowing you and your child’s …
Parenting Strategies for Preschool Kids
Parenting can be enormously frustrating, and there’s not a parent alive who hasn’t lost it from time to time. The only way to change your child’s behavior is to change your own.
Parenting Your ADHD Child
Your child was diagnosed with ADHD. How do you parent a child with ADHD?
Parking Lot of Emotions
Learn how to resolve old topics that keep popping up in your current fights through the Parking Lot of Emotions.
Partners Who Cheat
This article will take a look at and understand partners who cheat with married individuals. We will go in depth of understanding the reasoning, issues, and solutions in approaching a cheating partner in relation to …
Pelvic Floor Flex/Relax Continuum Exercise
Use this exercise to increase the intensity and satisfaction of your erections.
Pelvic Floor Muscle Strengthening Exercise
Building pelvic floor muscle strength can help create stronger and more satisfying erections.
Perfectionism
We all have a need to feel accepted, believe we belong and are valued for who we are. But oftentimes this universal human need gets distorted, becoming a deep source of hidden pain.
Perfectionist
What is a perfectionist?
Perinatal Depression Assessment
Could you or a loved one be suffering from depression, or perinatal depression? Take this assessment to find out.
Perinatal Depression Quiz
This quiz can help you identify your perinatal depression.
Perks of Vaginal Dilator Therapy
The thought of using vaginal dilator therapy to treat recurrent or chronic sexual pain can be intimidating. Vaginal dilator therapy has been an effective treatment to eliminate or reduce female sexual pain. One of the …
personality characteristics and issues of females with binge eating disorder
Common personality characteristics and issues of females with binge eating disorder?
Personality Disorders and Anorexia
What types of personality disorders are comorbid with anorexia?
Personality Disorders Commonly Associated with Bulimia Nervosa
What are some of personality disorders that are associated with bulimia nervosa?
Personality Profiles Associated With Anorexia
What are some of the Personality Profiles often associated with Anorexia Nervosa?
Personality Traits Associated with Bulimia Nervosa
Personality Traits Associated with Bulimia Nervosa * High reward dependence: People with high reward dependence tend to be compassionate and social. They can be sensitive, intuitive, and empathetic to the needs of other. However, they
Pet therapy: Casey’s Depression
Pet therapy and the treatment of depression
Physical Labor and Mental Health
When discussing the ways in which to improve mental health, we tend to focus on the abstract. However, what is physical labor, and how does it affect mental health?
Plan for Reducing Anxiety
Plan of action to reduce anxiety.
Play Therapy Interventions for Autism
Provides basic information on three prominent play therapy interventions for children with Autism.
Poor Body Image and Thought Records
For some individuals who struggle with poor body image, they develop a distorted perception about how they look, and how others view them. A thought record is designed to walk you through the process of …
Positive Thinking; Depression Therapy in Philadelphia, Ocean City, Mechanicsville, and Sante Fe
Positive Thinking to Counteract Low Self Esteem.
Positive Thinking Techniques
This tip provides techniques for positive thinking.
Postpartum Depression
What is postpartum depression and things to be concerned about?
Postpartum Depression and Expectations of Motherhood
When experiences don’t meet our expectations—what we imagined something to be like or feel like—it is a big disappointment. And, when we have expectations for ourselves, and we fall short of fulfilling those expectations, we …
Postpartum Depression Support Group in Philadelphia
The Center for Growth provides support groups to those who suffer from postpartum depression.
Postpartum Depression Therapy
What is postpartum depression therapy at the Center for Growth, Inc.
Postpartum Psychosis
What is postpartum psychosis?
Practical Spirituality
Practical Spirituality: Identifying the spiritual element in everyday life
Practicing Fair Fighting
A step-by-step guide to fair fighting techniques.
Practicing Gratitude When Feeling Disconnected
Have you been feeling disconnected from your partner lately? Are you wondering how you might feel grateful towards them during the holiday season? Read this tip for some strategies to test out.
Premarital Counseling for Same-Sex Couples
Specific challenges for same sex couples.
Prepare for Motherhood Class
12 week psychoeducational new mother class
Preparing for a Panic Attack
How to prepare for a panic attack. Take control and fight back!
Preparing for Academic Success
Are you struggling with achieving academic success? The semester is winding down and your grades are being posted. This may prove to be an exciting and validating time if the grades are what you expected …
Present Moment Awareness
Worrying about the future, or ruminating about the past can drastically distract you from living in the now. Here are ways to bring yourself back to the present moment.
Preventing Panic Attacks: Anxiety Scale
Track your anxiety to prevent panic attacks.
Preventing Panic Attacks: The Anxiety Scale
Use this exercise to help you track anxiety and prevent panic attacks.
Processing Emotions
Strategies for Processing Emotions
Processing Grief Through Writing Letters
Sometimes letting go of people whom have been lost can be difficult. The memories and feelings linger around long after they are gone. Whether you have lost a person to death or broken up with …
RelaxedProgressive Muscle Relaxation
A full body relaxation exercise to try when feeling anxious, tense, angry, or unable to sleep.
Protecting yourself from your partners anxiety
How to protect yourself from your partner’s anxiety.
Psychiatry and Therapy Together
Explore for yourself if having a psychiatrist and a therapist at the same time is right for you, and what the process will look like for you.
Psychotherapy and Counseling: What is the Difference?
Have you often heard various types of words to describe therapy? Have you wondered if there’s even a difference between Counseling and Psychotherapy? There’s many different labels for psychotherapy, and there are many different labels …
Psychotherapy and Family History
It is common for new clients to question the purpose or necessity in exploring their family history, but exploring our past can help us gain a better understanding about ourselves and how we behave today.
PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder defined. Need a PTSD Counselor in Center City Philadelphia? 267-324-9564
PTSD Know Your Triggers
Decrease PTSD: know your triggers.
Quick Boundary Tips
Short statements you can practice to use in the moment to set boundaries.
Raising Children in the Midst of Divorce
How can you raise a child in the middle of a divorce?
Rape
Rape is not your fault.
Reframing the Concept of Boundaries
Having boundaries in your life means having awareness of what you are comfortable with when it comes to your relationships with others. When we know what works for us, we can give those around us …
Reasons Spouses Cheat
WHY do husbands and wives cheat? And why don’t they just end the marriage cleanly before dating others?
Recognize/Respond: Eating Disorders & Therapy Services
Recognize/Respond: Eating Disorders & Therapy Services in Philadelphia PA, Ocean City, New Jersey, Mechanicsville VA, and Santa Fe, NM Recognize and respond to an eating disorder: (Beyond Health, Beyond Beauty; Eating Disorders & Therapy
Recognizing when you're Flooded
See how fight or flight response is hurting your relationship.
Recognizing your Cognitive Distortions
This exercise helps you to identify faulty patterns of thought - cognitive distortions- that may contribute to your anxiety or depression. Looking for therapy in Philadelphia? Call 267-324-9564 to make an appointment with a therapist …
Recovering from Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder
Recovering From Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder My Doctor states that I am overweight. Will I gain or lose weight in recovery? During the process of recovering from Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder
Redirecting Your Negative and Anxious Thoughts
For individuals dealing with anxiety, negative and axious thoughts is a common issue. The following steps teach you how to gain control over negative and anxious thoughts.
Redirecting your Post-Wedding Day Blues
For many newlyweds, as happy as they are to finally be married, it is normal to experience a sense of loss for your wedding day. Develop effective tools to put your focus and energy on …
Reducing Anxiety
This article provides some tips on how to reduce anxiety.
Releasing Anxiety Through Repetitive Motion
learn to release the unwanted energy in a positive way in order to free yourself from anxiety.
Relief Dates to Quell Your Anxiety
Ways to establish time for yourself that is anxiety free.
Relieving Depression
Here are some simple tips to start relieving depression.
Religion and Spirituality
What's the difference between religion and spirituality?
Repairing Self-Worth After Infidelity
Infidelity can lower your self-esteem. Here is a way to get it back.
Replacing Triggers
Focusing on Anti-Anxiety Alerts.
Resiliency And Rewards
You as a parent have the ability to help your child learn effective methods to handle disappointments such as being in second place or not doing a good job at a task. You also have …
Resolving an Argument
Fair fighting techniques - resolving an argument.
Resting Metabolic Rate
Definition of a resting metabolic rate (RMR).
Risk Factors for Anorexia Nervosa
A list of risk factors that make a person vulnerable to becoming anorexic.
risk factors for binge eating disorder
What are the risk factors for binge eating disorder?
Risk factors for Prenatal Depression
Risk factors for prenatal depression & postpartum depression during pregnancy (prenatal)
Ritual Spirituality
What are rituals exactly? Tools for positive change.
Role of Anxiety in Erectile Dysfunction
This tip is an exercise for men who are experiencing erectile dysfunction due to an underlying anxiety.
Safer Sex Life at College
Temptations in college are high, especially when it comes to sex. Read how to maintain a safe sex life in college.
Self Care After the Election
For those who are still struggling to recover from the traumatic election season.
Self Esteem Writing Exercise: A Tool Used By Therapists To Develop Self Esteem
A tool developed and used by therapists to help clients increase their self esteem.
Self Esteem Flower Pot
An experiential exercise to help you identify layers of how you feel about yourself.
Self-Care for Partners of Trauma Survivors
Self-care for partners of trauma survivors tip focuses on the importance of self-care for partners of trauma survivors and offer some ideas about how to engage in self-care.
Separation with Adult Children
This is a vignette about the emotional impact a parent’s separation can have on their child, even when the separation occurs later in life and the child is now an adult.
Set Point Theory
Set point theory definition.
Sex Compulsions and Shame
Shame has a powerful role in one's sex compulsion. Shame can push the compulsion further, and can prevent individuals from asking and accepting the help they need.
Sex Dependence Recovery
After you've recognized you're feeling out of control, the next step is to figure out what to do. What's the next step towards sex dependence recovery?
Sex and Pregnancy: The First Trimester
During the first trimester of pregnancy women experience a multitude of changes, and one's sex life is no exception. There are many sexual benefits that women begin to experience as early as the first trimester …
Sex and Pregnancy: The Second Trimester
There are many sexual benefits during a women's second trimester of her pregnancy, as well as new physical limitations. The following tip provides various sexual positions and ideas to provide the most comfort and enjoyment …
Sexnology: Sex Therapy in Philadelphia, Ocean City, Santa Fe, Mechanicsville
How technology can help your sexual relationship with a partner. Sex Therapy in Philadelphia, Ocean City, Santa Fe, Mechanicsville
Sexpectations: Sex Therapy
This tip is to help you uncover your expectations for sex by separating different aspects of sexuality into individual, relational, and cultural levels.
Sexual Compulsion: Sex Therapy
What is a sexual compulsion?
Sexual Anxiety And Premature Ejaculation
The Connection Between Sexual Anxiety and Premature Ejaculation: There can be a relationship between sexual anxiety and experiencing premature ejaculation. Learn more about how to manage this and improve your life.
Sexual Aversion Defined: Sex Therapy
Sexual aversion: What is it.
Sexual Boredom: Sex Therapy
Have you experienced sexual boredom? Learn how to break the cycle of sexual boredom and create a passionate marriage.
Sexual Communication Technique: Sex Therapy
Sex Therapy in Philadelphia is proud to present a useful sexual communication technique. This technique builds upon Sensate Focus Exercises.
Sexual Health: Sex Therapy in Philadelphia, Ocean City, Mechanicsville, Santa Fe
Your First Therapy AppointmentWhat is sexual health?
Sexual Health Overview
This tip lists the many topics within sexual health.
Sexual Trauma and Shame
Survivors of sexual trauma tend to take on many levels of shame , believing they are what was done to them. Sexual abuse and trauma is something that happened to you, it's not who you are.
Shacking up: Should I or Shouldn't I?
You know your goal with your partner is marriage, and possibly one day have children, but you’re not ready to get engaged. Right now, all you are trying to do is figure out “should I …
Shacking Up: We decided to move in together, now what?
This tip provides some tools on what do to after you decide to move in with your partner.
Should we do Couples Counseling or Individual Counseling?
If you have finally been brave enough to admit some things in your relationship need work, should you do individual our couples counseling?
Signs and Symptoms of Giving Too Much
Do you give too much to others? Find out with this tip from the Center for Growth.
Signs and Symptoms of Stress
What are the signs and symptoms of stress?
Simple Things You Can Do To Lose Weight
This tip provides some simple ideas for you to incorporate into your daily life to lose weight.
Single on Valentines Day
Being single on Valentine's Day can be hard. However, it doesn't need to be a day full of sadness, jealousy, or anger, but a great day to start some self-care.
Single Persons Guide To Valentines Day
If you are single on Valentine's Day, it doesn’t have to be the day you go into hiding. You can create your own meaning of Valentine’s Day, and in turn finding your inner strength and …
Skin Picking Treatment
Skin picking is considered a Body-Focused Repetitive Behavior Disorder which effects up to 5% of the population.
Sleep and Binge Eating
In the U.S., the prevalence of obesity across the board—men, women, all age groups, income levels and ethnicities—is quickly increasing. Sixty-five percent of adults are overweight, and 30% are obese.
Smartphone Boundaries for Parents
Are you practicing SMART smartphone parenting strategies? Try the exercises below to begin establishing healthy smartphone boundaries for your family. It is helpful to observe your current smartphone behaviors along with the feelings, thoughts, and …
Social Anxiety Disorder
What is social anxiety disorder?
Social Gambling VS Gambling Compulsion
Social gambling vs gambling compulsion? Which one are you?
Space for Emotional Availability
Navigating how much emotional availability you give to yourself and the others around you can be difficult. This tip will help you to recognize your own capacity for yourself and others.
Speaking Up
This tip is for men struggling with societal influences of the male gender role.
Spiritual Connection
How a spiritual connection can facilitate your healing process.
Spirituality As My Moral Compass
How does one go about the business of defining their own moral compass according to their spiritual beliefs and experience?
Staging Anxiety to Uncover Your Triggers
Anxiety often occurs as a result of certain circumstances or triggers. This tip helps you stage your anxiety to find those triggers.
Steps You Can Take To Reduce Anxiety
Steps you can take to reduce anxiety.
Strategies for New Moms
How to survive the first few weeks after delivery.
Strategies for Parents of Children with an Eating Disorder
38 Strategies for parents of children with an eating disorder to help them recover.
Strategies for supporting a person recovering from an Eating Disorder
Do you know someone recovering from an eating disorder? Here are some strategies for supporting that person.
Stress
What is stress and how do you define it?
Stress Management Techniques
StressWhat are some stress management techniques?
Suggestions for People With Anorexia and Depression
Here are some suggestions for people with anorexia and depression.
Support Group in Philadelphia
What is a support group, defined by The Center for Growth, Inc.?
Supporting a Child in Treatment for Anorexia
What can moms and dads do to support a child struggling to overcome Anorexia Nervosa.
Supporting after a Tragedy
Often after a tragedy people look to others to support. If you are a person who's looking to help others process a tragedy and offer support, this article will help you.
Surviving Wedding Season Single
Using communication styles as key strategies for surviving the wedding season single
Symptoms of Bulimia Nervosa
Bulimia Nervosa Treatment in Philadelphia: Symptoms of Bulimia Nervosa * Repeated episodes of binging; A PERSON CONSUMES an unusually large AMOUNT OF FOOD WITHIN a RELATIVELY short period of time (Within 2 hours) most
Talking to Your Kid About Going to Play Therapy
Key concepts to share with your child when telling him / her about the meeting you have schedule with the play therapist.
Talking to Your Partner About PTSD
This tip is for anyone who is recovering from trauma or PTSD and who has a significant other in their life.
Telling Your Partner That You Are Asexual
You are well-versed in this orientation and how it applies to you, but you still wonder how you're going to disclose your asexuality to your new partner. Well, worry no more. We'll be discussing how …
Temperamental Traits Associated With Anorexia
Is there a certain personality profile associated with people who are Anorexic? Yes there is.
The 5 Stages of Grief
Learn about the stages of grief. Which stage are you currently in?
The Compulsive / Dependent Family System
Often in a family system suffering from Compulsive, Dependent Behaviors and Thoughts, or/ and depression, there’s many dysfunctional tendencies that develop over time, from enmeshment, enabling, to secrecy. Read on to identify the difference for …
The Art Of Seduction
The art of seduction.
The Benefits of Play Therapy for Parents
While play therapy is a specific technique used to address children’s unique needs, parental involvement is an essential piece. Not only are parents critical resources for the therapist to be able to gather background data …
The Big O
How to achieve an orgasm (for women).
The Brain - a Departmental Overview
Learning how to shift your thoughts, feelings, responses and perception of the world is much easier than you might think! It begins with a basic understanding of how the brain works. When you understand why …
The Cycle of Grief: Grief Therapy in Philadelphia
The cycle of grief.
The Deceptive Behaviors of Anorexia
What are some of the deceptive behaviors of anorexia?
The Defiant Child Challenging Behaviors
The Defiant Child: If you're a parent, and often feel like pulling your hair out - keep reading! Here are six very practical suggestions to manage tantrums, limit-testing, throwing a fit, manipulation, whining, defiance, pouting …
The DID Role/Roll Call Sheet Exercise
Ways to get to know your alters better, assuming you know you have DID.
The Emotional Experience of Infertility
Infertility is an extremely emotional experience. The diagnosis of infertility catches people off-guard. You have not planned for or anticipated an infertility diagnosis, and are now experiencing the many emotions associated with infertility. You may …
The Female G-Spot
Learn about the elusive Female G-Spot. Read about why to stimulate it, and how to.
The Four Phases of Gambling
What are the four phases of gambling?
The Four Worst Places to Discuss Money
When discussing money as a couple, the following four places can lead to arguments and unresolved issues around money.
The Gifts of Shame
There are positive aspects to experiencing shame. Facing one's shame can be an opportunity to experiencing true vulnerability, courage, and more.
The Importance of Reciprocal Relationships
A healthy friendship requires reciprocity. A steady back and forth, where all parties feel they are getting something valuable out of the relationship.
The Power of Compliments
Learn how to give your woman more detailed and specific compliments, her self confidence will improve and your appreciation for her will be enhanced.
The Power of Rituals When Grieving
Rituals can be an essential practice when grieving the loss of a loved one. Rituals and traditions can come in many forms, big or small. Sometimes finding the right ones that fit you, and represent …
The Self Esteem Workout
A step-by-step guide for increasing confidence and self esteem
The Stages of Cultural Sensitivity
Learn about where you are in your own stages of cultural sensitivity, and feel more confident in approaching people of a different backgrounds than yourself.
The Strong Black Woman in Relationships
When we think about the Strong Black Woman, one of the struggles that plagues this badge of honor is the idea of balancing strength and vulnerability in life and relationships. The old idea of the …
The Wave
An exercise to help you manage your emotions in a new way
Theraplay
The primary focus of Theraplay is not behavioral change. Rather, it is to strengthen the parent-child relationship to achieve what researchers would call “secure attachment.” The outcomes associated with secure attachment include optimism, high self-esteem …
Therapy For Sexual Compulsion
Do you notice that you have a sexual compulsion and aren't sure what to do? Consider seeing a sex therapist.
Tips for Academic Success
You want to start next semester off right so below you will find tips for achieving academic success. In order to do well, you must first set yourself up for success. One way you can …
Tips for getting the most out of your psychiatrist
Whether you’ve been seeing the same psychiatrist for your entire adult life or you’re considering psychiatry services for the first time, you could probably benefit from taking a more intentional approach to your relationship with …
Tips for recovering from binge eating disorder
This article provides some tips for recovering from a binge eating disorder.
Tips for Recovering from Bulimia Nervosa
Twenty Two Tips on How to Recover from Bulimia Nervosa and Questions to Ask Yourself
Tips for Recovery from Binge Eating Disorder
Tips for Recovery from Binge Eating Disorder
Tired of Not Feeling Desired
This tip is for those looking to improve their outlook on dating. It also gives tips to navigating the dating world.
Tragedy: Making sense of the senseless
When targeted violence occurs, our belief in the good of others is questioned, and the desire to answer the question “why” is more important than ever.
Trauma Sensitive Yoga For Survivors of Trauma
Learn how trauma sensitive yoga can help reduce symptoms of trauma from Philadelphia Therapist.
Trauma: Coping with Your Partner's Isolation
Ways to emotionally support your lover who has survived trauma and isolates.
Treatment for Anorexia in Adolescence
Recommendations for treatment for Anorexia Nervosa in Adolescence
Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa
Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa- What to expect.
Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa in Philadelphia
An overview of how we help people overcome anorexia nervosa.
Treatment of Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorders
Suggestions for the professional who is working with cilents who are suffering from Bulimia Nervosa and / or Binge Eating Disorder (IPT, CBT)
Treatment Options for Adults with Anorexia
What are some of the treatment options for adults with anorexia?
Types of Cohabitating Couples
Learn more about common dynamics of couples who live together and what to do about them
Understanding Depression
An overview of the symptoms of depression along with the associated Depressive and Bipolar disorders recognized by DSM 5.
Understanding Hypermobility Syndromes
A general overview of hypermobility syndromes, including Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, joint hypermobility syndrome, and Marfan syndrome, and how therapy helps.
Understanding Past Relationships
Have you always wondered why you keep going after the same person? Many people might just say it's their "type" and not really understand what it means. You may have people telling you to go …
Understanding Sexual Compulsions
If somebody has a sexual compulsion, it not only affects their life, but those around them. Read this tip to learn more about sexual compulsions.
Understanding the Role of PTSD Symptoms in the Cycle of Isolation
Some of the actual symptoms of PTSD can cause a person to isolate himself/herself. PTSD is characterized by three categories of symptoms: hyperarousal, intrusion and constriction. The way people cope with these symptoms can also …
Understanding the Role Your Family of Origin has in the way you Resolve Conflict with a Partner
Genogram: how your past influences your present conflict(s) with your partner.
Understanding Turner Syndrome
Having a child, or someone you love, be diagnosed with Turner Syndrome can feel scary. This article will help explain what the syndrome is and how it can be treated.
Understanding You and Your Partners Attachment
Find answers to you and your partners' interaction style by completing this check-list.
Unwanted Advice
How to handle unwanted advice during pregnancy and the first year afterwards.
Using Music to Cope With Grief
For some people, music is a very healthy, soothing, and comfortable way to express emotions. Whether you have a great appreciation for it or create your own, music can be an effective tool for managing …
Using Social Stories To Treat Autism Spectrum Disorders?
A tip to teach you about social stories, how to create one, and how to use one with your child with an autism spectrum disorder
Vaginal Dilator Therapy for Sexual Pain
Your journey towards pain free sex has been difficult. You have been undiagnosed, misdiagnosed, and may feel like you are going crazy. You are frustrated that there is no medical treatment for your pain. Your …
Vaginismus
Read on to learn more about Vaginismus, defined as painful spasms of muscles around the outer third of the vagina.
Valentines Day for Couples with Kids
Why couples with kids should celebrate Valentine's Day.
Visualization Technique Part One
Visualization and imagery are powerful weapons in the arsenal against anxiety. This three part tip will help you learn the techniques of visualization.
Visualization Technique Part Three
White Light to defeat anxiety and reduce stress.
Visualization Technique Part Two
This is part two of learning about visualizations.
Vulvar Vestibulitis Syndrome
Vulvar Vestibulitis Syndrome can create psychological symptoms too. FInd out about them along with a few basic coping strategies.
Ways to Improve Self Esteem
What are some ways to improve your self esteem?
Ways to Support Someone Suffering From Postpartum Depression
This tip is geared for fathers and other caregivers who are supporting a woman experiencing postpartum depression or the baby blues.
Wedding Survival Strategies
Eight strategies to help manage your stress and expectations for you and your fiance for your big day.
What are Boundaries?
This tip will be the first in a series addressing what boundaries are, why they are important, how to identify you boundaries, how to set appropriate boundaries, and how to maintain then after it gets …
What are Open Relationships and Are they for Me?
Take this quiz to guide discussion as you and your partner consider opening up your relationship. For more tools for clear communication and rule-setting as you open your relationship, call 215 922 9564 x 10 …
What are the health problems strongly associated with obesity?
What are the health problems strongly associated with obesity?
What Does It Mean To Be Diagnosed With Borderline Personality Disorder?
This tip enlightens readers on the DSM-IV-TR criteria for BPD, and explains the basic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors associated with the disorder. Also included is some references for treatment.
What is a Doula?
What is a Doula, and how they can help you during childbirth and how they can support your family during the first week of your child’s life.
What is a narcissist?
Encountering difficult people is an inevitable part of life. How can you determine whether the difficult person in your life is truly a narcissist? This article offers an explanation of what narcissism is, as well …
What is a Panic Attack?
This tip helps identify and define what is a panic attack.
What Is A Sexual Aversion
Do you have a sexual aversion?
What is a Spontaneous Pneumothorax AKA Bleb Disease?
Spontaneous pneumothorax refers to the condition when a lung leaks air and collapses.
What is Anxiety?
This tip helps answer the question "what is anxiety?".
What is binge eating disorder?
What is binge eating disorder?
What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?
Body Dsymorphic Disorder is a severe preoccupation with one or more aspects of one’s physical appearance. Body Dysmorphic Disorder varies in level of severity, but if severe enough, can seriously impair one’s functioning. There are …
What is Codependency?
Have you wondered if your loyalties to loved ones and friends have been borderline codependent? Have you been called codependent, but you’re still not sure what it is? Read this tip to gain understanding on …
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
This tip will explain the basics of CBT and help you understand how it can be beneficial for people with anxiety or depression.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
This tip will inform you on some basic information about Dissociate Identity Disorder (DID).
What is Ethical Porn and Where Can I Find It?
This article will explore some of the common questions asked about ethical porn: What is it? Why is it important? Where can I find it? What are some good examples of it?
What is Narrative Therapy?
Narrative therapy is an psychotherapy approach that allows you to author a more positive story for your future by deconstructing the problems you are currently dealing with or are unresolved from your past.
What is Play Therapy?
This tip provides some information on what play therapy is and how it works.
What is Pre-Cana?
This tip provides a definition of Pre-Cana.
What is Pre-Marital Counseling?
Have you ever wondered if pre-marital counseling is for you? Are you curious about the process of pre-marital therapy and want to give it a shot before tying the knot? Read on for the top …
What is Psychotherapy? And Is It For Me?
“Is Psychotherapy the same thing as Counseling?
What is Self-Esteem?
An overview of healthy vs. too low self-esteem. Including factors that influence positive and negative self-esteem.
What is Trauma?
Trauma can be defined as anything less than nurturing. Trauma comes in all shapes and sizes in terms of severity, event, impact, etc. The three basic types of trauma include physical, sexual, and emotional.
What is Vulvar Vestibulitis
Vulvar vestibulitis is an inflammation in the vestibule, otherwise known as the vaginal opening.
What it means to be your authentic self?
Authenticity is essential when trying to become your best self. To be your authentic self means your words match your actions and your reveal the real you to others. There are many gifts that come …
What Should Your New Year’s Resolution Be?
Struggling to sticking with your New Year's goals? Figure out how to choose an appropriate New Year's Resolution by asking yourself the right questions.
What Stage Of The Problem Are You In?
This tip provides information on the different stages of addressing a problem.
What to Expect in a Workshop at the Center for Growth
What to expect in a workshop at the Center for Growth / Therapy in Philadelphia.
What To Expect When Leaving College
What's life like on the other side of college? This tip will help you with what to expect when you leave college.
What to look for in a couples counselor
Not all couples counselors are created equal. Here are some tips for how to find a good couples counselor.
What Your Body Language Is Saying
Learn how to carry yourself in an important interview, or a first date, in order to get the outcome you want.
What Is Your Childs Learning Style?
This tip will help you learn about how to identify how your child's learning style. In turn you will be able to choose the best school setting for your child as well as assist your …
When Does Grieving Becoming Problematic?
Grief therapy in Philadelphia: When does grieving become problematic?
When Porn Becomes a Problem
Sex is a natural behavior that can feel great, relieve stress, and strengthen relationships. However, like most subjects, it can have negative consequences. Therefore, how do we objectively know when porn becomes a problem?
When to End a Relationship
Is your relationship worth saving? Simple guidelines by The Center for Growth, formerly known as Therapy in Philadelphia.
When Trauma is Misdiagnosed as ADHD in Children
This is a tip for parents and loved ones to differentiate between ADHD and PTSD.
When You Give Too Much
When You Give Too Much - Helping Individuals Regain Equality in Their Relationship:
When You See Your Teen Looking at Porn
You unexpectedly see your teen in the middle of looking at porn. What do you say? What do you do? This article will guide you through all of these questions and more.
When You Think About Touching Yourself
For men who want to learn more ways to touch themselves and experience pleasure without ever engaging sex therapy.
Why Diets Are Bad For You
Why diets are bad for you
Why People Occassionally Cheat
This article gives you tips to help you understand why people cheat occasionally and teaches you how to learn to confront the underlying fears that fuel the cheating. If you are questioning moving forward in …
Why the Idea of Mediocrity Tortures Millennials
Learn about unique issues millennials (twenty-thirty somethings) face making them susceptible to a constant sense of anxiety and depression.
Will I Gain or Lose Weight in Recovery
This tip is geared for people recovering from bulimia.
Will This Relationship Last
How determined are you to make this relationship last? What are the steps that you need to take to make this relationship work?
Women and Body Image Exercise
This exercise is designed to help you redirect your thoughts and your focus towards what is good about your body, and allowing yourself to be fully present and aware of these feelings as well as …
Working Towards Healing After a Loss
Working towards healing after a loss: Developing A Plan of Action.
Writing Your Newlywed Chapter
A Narrative therapy exercise to coauthor your newlywed chapter of marriage.
Your First Anxiety and Depression Support Group
Nervous about starting group therapy? Here is an inside look!
“Big T” versus “little t” Trauma
Do I struggle with Big T (Trauma) or little t (trauma)? Recognize the differences. Need counseling in Center City Philadelphia? 267-324-9564.
“Real-time” Connection over Your Smartphone
The use of a smartphone can be truly helpful to establish, maintain, and reestablish our relationships. We have the ability to connect to people when they are not able to be physically present in out …
A Grief Like No Other: Surviving the Violent Death of Someone You Love
Overcoming the death of someone you love who died by homicide or suicide.
After the Affair: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful
After the Affair teaches partners how to heal themselves and grow from the shattering crisis of an infidelity. Drawing on thirty-five years as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Spring offers a series of original and proven strategies …
Aftermarriage The Myth of Divorce
A wonderful book to help you understand the different types of divorce.
Anger-Free: Ten Basic Steps to Managing Your Anger
Anger-Free offers a simple mind/body approach to alleviating dysfunctional anger. Drawing on three decades of professional and personal experience, Dr. W. Doyle Gentry presents a fresh perspective on anger management with clinically tested methods that draw …
Anger: How to Recognize and Cope With It
A classic in the field. Excellent for understanding the role of anger in our lives and how to deal with it.
Asperger's Answer Book: The Top 275 Questions Parents Ask
Becoming a Father: How to Nurture and Enjoy Your Family (Growing Family)
This book, written especially for the often-neglected male half of the parenting team, is a father's guide to making wise investments in his children and family.
In BECOMING A FATHER, author Dr. William Sears shares …
Beyond the Blues: A Guide to Understanding And Treating Prenatal And Postpartum Depression
Beyond the Trauma Vortex Into the Healing Vortex: A Guide for You
This book is written for the general public to help alleviate suffering and despair due to traumatic experiences. It informs about trauma’s nature and characteristics, introduces theories that will help understand it, and provide healing …
Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified: An Essential Guide for Understanding and Living with BP
Over six million Americans suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), a chronic, disabling psychiatric condition that causes extreme instability in their emotional lives, behavior, and self-image, and severely impacts their family and friends. In Borderline …
Born to Lose: Memoirs of a Compulsive Gambler
Breaking Through to Teens: Psychotherapy for the New Adolescence
This book presents groundbreaking strategies for psychotherapy with today’s teens, for whom high-risk behavior, lack of adult guidance, and intense anxiety and stress increasingly come with the territory. Ron Taffel addresses the key challenge of …
Caring for Your Parents: The Complete Family Guide (AARP)
Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-up's Guide to Getting over Narcissistic Par
Contrary to Love
Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation
Nearly a decade ago, Cutting boldly addressed a traumatic psychological disorder now affecting as many as two million Americans and one in fifty adolescents. More than that, it revealed self-mutilation as a comprehensible, treatable disorder, no longer …
Daily meditations for women who love too much
Daughter's Touch: A Journey of a Mother Trying to Come to Terms with Postpartum Depression
Depressed and Anxious: The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook for Overcoming Depression & Anxiety
Do I Get My Allowance Before or After I'm Grounded?: Stop Fighting, Start Talking, and Get to Know Y
Every parent fears “losing” their child. But in this revolutionary book, youthologist Vanessa Van Petten translates what parents want to say into what teens want to hear. At 16, Vanessa Van Petten started her award-winning …
Down Came the Rain : My Journey Through Postpartum Depression
Eating With Your Anorexic
This deeply moving, extraordinarily personal, and--most of all--helpful book chronicles one mother's journey alongside her teenage daughter's recovery from anorexia nervosa. A true story of pain, healing, and discovery, Eating with Your Anorexic is also the first …
Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives
Facing the Shadow: Starting Sexual and Relationship Recovery
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
For Each Other: Sharing Sexual Intimacy
Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
With astonishing honesty, this memoir, Get Me Out of Here, reveals what mental illness looks and feels like from the inside, and how healing from borderline personality disorder is possible through intensive therapy and the support of …
Getting past your past
A totally accessible user’s guide from the creator of a scientifically proven form of psychotherapy that has successfully treated millions of people worldwide.
Whether we’ve experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we are all influenced …
Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy
Whether we’ve experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we are all influenced by memories and experiences we may not remember or don’t fully understand. Getting Past Your Past offers practical procedures that demystify the human …
Getting the Love You Want Workbook: The New Couples' Study Guide
A companion workbook to the enormously successful New York Times bestselling relationship book,Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples.
Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples
In Getting the Love You Want, Dr. Harville Hendrix shares the relationship skills that have already helped hundreds of thousands of couples to replace confrontation and criticism with a healing process of mutual growth and support …
Going for Broke: A Novel
Hand-Me-Down Blues: How To Stop Depression From Spreading In Families
Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief
Healing the Shame that Binds You
This classic book, written 17 years ago but still selling more than 13,000 copies every year, has been completely updated and expanded by the author.
Shame is the motivator behind our toxic behaviors: the compulsion …
He’s Just Not Up for It Anymore: Why Men top Having Sex, and What You Can Do Aabout It
Are your clients in one of the 20 million traditional heterosexual marriages in the United States without physical passion? Do they engage in sexual intercourse less than ten times a year? Does the husband seem …
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
You Can Stop Fighting With Your Chidren!
Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know–how you need to be more effective with your children and more supportive of yourself. Enthusiastically praised by …
How We Grieve: Relearning the World
In Lieu of Flowers: A Conversation for the Living
Infanticide: Psychosocial and Legal Perspectives on Mothers Who Kill
Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, A Hands on, practical guide to
The name says it all.
Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
"Of all the great books written on eating disorders, none has had a wider reach than Life Without Ed. Those suffering have found connection and hope, family members have found understanding and empathy, professionals have learned …
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Aspergers
Losing Your Shirt - Second Edition: Recovery for Compulsive Gamblers and Their Families
This is a wonderful book about recovery, designed for compulsive gamblers and their families.
Loving the Self-Absorbed: How to Create a More Satisfying Relationship with a Narcissistic Partner
A narcissistic partner is always putting his or her own needs first and can be competitive, demeaning, and manipulative. After the early stages of a relationship, the non-narcissist is left questioning his/her value. In this book …
Manic: A Memoir
This is a wonderful book for someone to read who is bipolar, or for someone who wants to learn more about what life is actually like for someone with bipolar.
Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage
In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is—and …
Non Pharmacologic Treatments for Depression in New Mothers
On Death and Dying
What every therapist should read.
On the Edge of Darkness: Conversations about Donquering Depression
This book is written by Walter Cronkite’s daughter. In it, she interviews famous peoples who have struggled with depression. In addition to chronicaling famous peoples experiences of depression, she goes on to include common treatments …
Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and Change
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by unstable moods, negative self-image, dangerous impulsivity, and tumultuous relationships. Many people with BPD excel in academics and careers while revealing erratic, self-destructive, and sometimes violent behavior only to …
Perinatal and Postpartum Mood Disorders Perspectives and Treatment Guide for the Health Care Practit
Playground Politics: Understanding the Emotional Life of Your School-Age Child
Playground Politics is the first book to look at the neglected middle years of childhood—from kindergarten to junior high—and to help parents understand the enormous emotional challenges these children are facing. In witty, vivid stories …
Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders: A Clinician's Guide
Real Boys : Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood
Based on William Pollack's groundbreaking research at Harvard Medical School over two decades, Real Boys explores why many boys are sad, lonely, and confused although they may appear tough, cheerful, and confident. Pollack challenges conventional …
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Everybody who has survived adolescence knows what a scary, tumultuous, exciting time it is. But if we use memories of our experiences to guide our understanding of what today’s girls are living through, we make …
Running with Scissors: A Memoir
It is the 70s and Augusten Burroughs (Joseph Cross) is a young gay child who spends hours upholding his mother Deidre Burroughs (Annette Benning) with emotional support as she attempts to forge her career as …
Screamfree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool
ScreamFree Parenting is not just about lowering your voice. It’s about learning to calm your emotional reactions and learning to focus on your own behavior more than your kids’ behavior . . . for their benefit …
Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child : Eliminating Conflict by Establishing Clear, Firm, and
Does your child constantly misbehave and ignore or refuse your requests for proper behavior? Is your relationship with your child based on conflict instead of mutual respect and cooperation? With the help of this groundbreaking …
Sharing Sexual Intimacy
Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder
This book is a step-by-step guide to teaching clients four sets of skills: interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and mindfulness. A vital component in Dr. Linehan’s comprehensive treatment program, the manual details precisely how …
Small Wonders: Healing Childhood Trauma With EMDR
Childhood can be an exciting time, full of joyous exploration, new skills, friends, and imaginative play. It can also be very frightening, especially when children have experiences that threaten their feelings of safety and well-being …
Sometimes I Act Crazy: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder
A source of hope, expert advice, and guidance for people with borderline personality disorder and those who love them, this new book by Dr. Jerold J. Kreisman and Hal Straus, bestselling authors of I Hate You …
SorrowS Web: Hope Help And Understanding For Depressed Mothers And Their Children
Soul without Shame: A Guide to Liberating Yourself from the Judge Within
Surviving a Borderline Parent - How to Heal your Childhood Wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries
Surviving a Borderline Parent is the first step-by-step guide for adult children of parents with borderline personality disorder.
Between 6 and 10 million people in the US suffer from borderline personality disorder. This book teaches adult …
Surviving an Eating Disorder
Surviving an Eating Disorder has become a classic since it was first published in 1988. This updated and revised edition provides the latest information on how parents, spouses, friends, and professionals can thoughtfully determine the right …
Tapping In: A Step-by-Step Guide to Activating Your Healing Resources Through Bilateral Stimulation
The Baby Sleep Book: The Complete Guide to a Good Night's Rest for the Whole Family
America's favorite pediatric experts turn their attention to solving babies' sleep problems in a definitive book that offers immediate results. A comprehensive, reassuring, solution-filled sleep resource, this guide shows parents how to match the nighttime …
The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
Kiera Van Gelder's struggles with drug addiction, depression, post-traumatic stress, self-harm, and chaotic romantic relationships began with her first suicide attempt when she was 12 years old. Twenty years later, she was belatedly diagnosed with borderline personality …
The Challenging Child: Understanding, Raising, and Enjoying the Five "Difficult" Types of Children
In his latest book, Greenspan (psychiatry, behavioral science, and pediatrics, George Washington Univ. Medical Sch.) proposes methods for dealing with challenging children that focus on using both "nature" (the inborn temperament of the child) and …
The Co-Parenting Survival Guide: Letting Go of Conflict after a Difficult Divorce
Co-parenting strategies.
The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression: A Step-by-step Program (Workbook)
The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief
The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
"Anger is a signal and one worth listening to," writes Dr. Harriet Lerner, in a classic that has transformed the lives of millions of readers. While anger deserves our attention and respect, women still learn …
The Destructive Narcissistic Pattern
The Freedom from Depression Workbook (Minirth Meier New Life Clinic Series)
The Grieving Garden: Living with the Death of a Child
The High-Conflict Couple: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide
The High-Conflict Couple: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intimacy, and Validation
The High-Conflict Couple adapts the powerful techniques of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) into skills you can use to tame out-of-control emotions that …
The Journey to Parenthood: Myths, Reality and What Really Matters
The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today
Andrew J. Cherlin's three decades of study have shown him that marriage in America is a social and political battlefield in a way that it isn’t in other developed countries. Americans marry and divorce more …
The Revolutionary Trauma Release Process
When we experience stressful or traumatic events, the body records and stores this information with great accuracy. Each trauma leaves its mark, etched into both our psyche and our physical makeup. The chronic muscle tension …
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
John Gottman revolutionized the study of marriage by using scientific procedures to observe the habits of married couples in detail over many years. This books represents the culmination of his life's work: the seven principles that …
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relatio
The Verbally Abusive Relationship, Expanded Third Edition: How to recognize it and how to respond
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding (La Leche League International Book)
This is the #1 guide book for women who choose to breastfeed. This book is considered to be the bible of breastfeeding.
The Year of Magical Thinking
In this stunning book of electric honesty and passion, Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has …
Therapy and the Postpartum Woman: Notes on Healing Postpartum Depression for Clinicians and the Wome
Trapped in the Mirror
Trauma Through a Child's Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing
An essential guide for recognizing, preventing, and healing childhood trauma, from infancy through adolescence—what parents, educators, and health professionals can do.
Trauma can result not only from catastrophic events such as abuse, violence, or loss …
Trauma through a Child’s Eyes
An essential guide for recognizing, preventing, and healing childhood trauma, from infancy through adolescence—what parents, educators, and health professionals can do.
Trauma can result not only from catastrophic events such as abuse, violence, or loss …
Treating Bulimia in Adolescents: A Family-Based Approach
"The family-based approach has offered patients a genuine paradigm shift in the treatment of eating disorders, and real hope for recovery from a complex illness. Le Grange and Lock build here on their authoritative manual …
Understanding Postpartum Psychosis: A Temporary Madness
Unexpected Legacy of Divorce, The: A 25 Year Landmark Study
Walking in the Garden of Souls
Finding hope.
What Am I Thinking? Having a Baby After Postpartum Depression
What to Do When Someone You Love Is Depressed
What to Expect the First Year
This book gives new parents all of the basic information that they want in regards with what to expect during the child’s first year of life. It is a great guide book, but for parents …
When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy
When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy.In this moving and intimate book, Geneen Roth, bestselling author of Feeding the Hungry Heart and Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, shows how dieting and emotional eating …
When Someone You Love Is Angry
Clinical psychologist and anger expert W. Doyle Gentry offers compassionate, practical insight to those with angry loved ones, providing coping strategies that help strengthen emotional intimacy and establish boundaries-and avoid being held hostage to a …
Why I Jumped: My True Story of Postpartum Depression, Dramatic Rescue & Return to Hope
Why Is It Always About You? : The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism
Women Who Hurt Themselves: A Book Of Hope And Understanding
Many books have described victims of rape and battering, but scant attention has been paid to another form of harm increasingly common among women. Here at last is a book that provides help for the …
Yes, Your Teen is Crazy!: Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind
For parents who have tried everything but still have teens who are out of control, Bradley's Yes, Your Teen Is Crazy! is a funny, blunt, and reassuring book. Philadelphia psychologist Bradley approaches the subject from …
Self Care during the Holidays
How to manage anxiety and stress during the holidays
Sensate Focus Touching for Body Image
Sensate Focus variation for partners with body image issues
Learn How To Squirt
Learn how to squirt (female ejaculation).
How To Support A Survivor Of Sexual Assault
Your partner has disclosed that they are a survivor of sexual assault. With this new information, how do you properly support them? What do you say? What do you do? This article is going to …
How to Test Your Gut
Testing your gut instinct can help you overcome anxiety of change and increase your self esteem
Making Sense of Not Trusting Yourself
Learn how you learned to stop trusting yourself and how to get your self-trust back
Healthy Minds Philly
How to Support A Partner With Anxiety
Supporting a partner with anxiety can be difficult and exhausting. Here are some tips that can help you both.
Talking to your partner about Erectile Dysfunction
Use this conversation guide to explore erectile dysfunction with your partner.
How to Satisfy Skin Hunger When Single
You’ve managed the single life rather well, at the same time, there’s one aspect that you’re struggling with: satisfying your skin hunger. This article is going to explore exactly what skin hunger is, as well …
5 Signs Your Friendship Might Be Unhealthy
5 signs that your friendship might be unhealthy from Philadelphia Therapist
Identifying and Managing Your Emotions
Learning to identify and manage emotions is an important step in your early recovery from sex, gambling, eating disorders, over eating . . .
Managing Problematic Thinking
Managing your problematic/persuasive thinking is a big part of sexually compulsive behavior recovery. Whether it’s rationalizations or thoughts persuading you to engage in problematic behaviors, they need to be managed as part of your recovery …
How to Transition from College to Work
Regardless if you went to college for four years or more, transitioning from college to working full time can be a challenge. This article is going to help you develop behavioral strategies to mitigate those …
What Causes Stress? Ask A Therapist
The 5 Causes of stress.
Anxiety and Control Chart Exercise
Use this exercise to manage anxiety.
7 Things To Know About Pegging
When it comes to sex, there are so many more possibilities than penile-vaginal intercourse. There’s intimate touching, kissing, oral, role-play, toys, anal, and so much more. For many couples anal intercourse is a great way …
Identifying Loneliness
This article explores the different kinds of loneliness and how you can identify your type.
Avoidance, Anxiety and Negative Reinforcement
Explore how avoidance negatively reinforces your anxiety.
Do-It-Yourself Desensitization for Anxiety
Desensitization is the process of exposing yourself to different stimuli that provoke different levels of anxiety from you that you can do at home!
How to Manage Anger
Anger is an emotional response that is triggered by a real or perceived threat. We often get angry when we have a difficult time communicating our feelings. When we aren’t given the tools to understand …
Talking about Babyloss
Telling family and friends about the loss of your baby. There are times when, devastatingly, a baby passes away before birth. This can happen due to miscarriage, stillbirth, or even having to make the choice …
Pregnancy After Babyloss
Becoming pregnant after the loss of a baby. Strategies to cope with the intense feelings that go along with this journey.
E. Goldblatt Hyatt DSW, LCSW, MBE (Therapist)
Dr. Erica Goldblatt Hyatt (they/them) is a university professor, administrator, and private therapist with nearly 15 years' worth of experience in the field of clinical social work. ( Curriculum Vitae ) They received …
An Introduction To BDSM
The popularity of 50 Shades of Grey has sparked curiosity of the BDSM world for many. Although the blockbuster brought attention to the BDSM world, 50 Shades Of Grey does not do a particularly good …
Managing Loneliness
Loneliness is an issue that affects all of us at some point in our lives. There isn’t a right or wrong way when managing loneliness, as long as you recognize that it is completely normal …
Parenting Worried Children
Parenting worried children who see news of tumultuous storms, terror attacks, school shootings, nuclear war, racial conflict, global warming, kidnapping, and violent crimes is daunting. The news can obviously be scary for us, so it’s …
Impact Of Attempted Suicide
What kind of parenting help can you provide when statistics become your reality and your child’s friend attempts suicide? The suicide attempt may have failed, but that doesn’t mean your child hasn’t been impacted emotionally …
Benefits of Your Wise Mind
This article will explore the different mind sets (Reasonable Mind, Emotional Mind and Wise Mind) and explain the benefits and challenges with each mind set. Specific focus will be on the therapeutic benefits of accessing …
Prenups Can Strengthen Relationships
This article will explore the ins and outs of prenuptial agreements (e.g., what they are, who needs them, what's included in them) and how they can strengthen the couple's relationship.
Pregnancy Jealousy
"Is it normal that I've unfollowed my pregnant friends on social media?" "Why do I want to run away every time I see a pregnant woman at Target?" Let's talk about the thoughts and feelings …
Food Journal
Learn how to keep a food journal that's focused on the relationship between your eating and emotions.
Accessing Your Wise Mind
Your Wise Mind is based in intuition, calmness and centeredness. Everyone has a Wise Mind. Some people have developed a strong relationship with their Wise Mind and are able to access it easily, whereas others …
BDSM with Household Items
You and your partner may be eager to delve into the Bondage/ Discipline/ Submission/ Domination (BDSM) world, but may not be ready to go to the store to buy toys. There are some easily found …
Babyloss and Mother's Day
How to cope on mother's day when it feels like everybody else is celebrating.
Eshel (acceptance for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Orthodox Jews)
The Joy of Text
Sex Therapy in Philadelphia
Confronting Lying in Recovery
In the thick of your compulsions, you likely engaged in lying to everyone on a regular basis. You likely engaged in lying so frequently that lying is now a regular habit that is impacting your …
Owning Your Porn Problem
How can you show your partner that you’re taking your recent porn problem seriously? This article is for the person who recently discovered their unhealthy relationship with porn, and want to make their partner part …
Self-Compassion
Breaking the cycle of self-criticism with self-compassion can be really difficult if you try to do it all by yourself. Here are some tips from Therapy in Philadelphia/ Ocean City / Mechanicsville
Use Your Anger Wisely
Anger, along with the other “negative” emotions can be challenging for some people to embrace. Unfortunately, if you avoid anger you miss out on the potential benefits that are associated with experiencing and expressing anger …
Tracking Worries to Identify Core Beliefs
Tracking our worries can help us to identify our negative core beliefs that are at the root of anxiety and depression.
Marketing & Social Media Internship Information and Application
Are you looking for experience with marketing and social media? The Center for Growth is a growing private practice that is looking for an intern to help with marketing and to help manage our social …
How to Engage in Spanking with a Partner
Interested in spanking but not sure where to start? Here are some easy steps on how to engage in spanking with a partner from Philadelphia Sex Therapist.
How to Stay Single as a Serial Dater
Being in a romantic relationship can truly be wonderful, which makes staying single as serial dater difficult. However, it is possible. This article will explain how to stay single, as well as why it may …
Anxious Behaviors
This tip discusses four tips of anxious behaviors.
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
Living with anxiety, panic disorders, or phobias can make you feel like you aren’t in control of your life. If you’re ready to tackle the fears that hold you back, this book is your go-to …
Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior
Practical, proven self help steps show how to transform 40 common self-defeating behaviors, including procrastination, envy, obsession, anger, self-pity, compulsion, neediness, guilt, rebellion, inaction, and more.
Grieving and Coping
We all grieve in unique ways. What's your coping style?
Rubber Band Grieving
We all cope with grief differently. What's your style?
Babyloss Grieving Rituals
You've lost the child you were so excited to welcome. What now?
Postpartum 101 with a Rainbow
You've had that rainbow baby, but life doesn't feel very sunny these days. In the throes of postpartum emotions, what do babyloss moms need to know?
Overcoming Negativity Bias
Overcoming negativity bias is far more complicated than most people imagine. This article will explore why we have an inherent neurological negativity bias and ways you can overcome your negativity bias.
Mycoplasma Genitalium and Why It May Be a Problem
Mycoplasma Genitalium is an STI that has the potential to become a superbug. Here's what it is and how to keep yourself safe.
Samantha Eisenberg, LCSW, MSW, MEd, LMT, (Director of Clinical Administration and Social Media)
Samantha Eisenberg, LCSW, MSW, MEd, LMT, (she/her/hers) does individual, couples, family and group therapy virtually in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Virginia. She works with children and adults. Samantha uses an integrative, strengths-based, collaborative approach in …
sex therapist in Vermont
Giving More Than You Receive
We’ve all heard that being caring and supportive is essential for our relationships, but what happens when we give more than we receive? This article will discuss the dangers of giving more than you receive …
Reality Testing Your Actions
Many people like to imagine that how they see the world is crystal clear: they see everything in 20/20. However, how many people actually have perfect vision? The goal of this article is to help …
Symptoms of Grief
What is grief and what are the symptoms?
Sex After Babyloss
This tip helps guide you through the questions people may have after babyloss.
Babyloss and Naming
Deciding whether to name the Baby you lost
Virtual Reality Therapy Services
The Center for Growth explains the use of Virtual Reality (VR) in their offices to assist in anxiety disorders.
Stress-Free Mornings
Mornings can be incredibly anxiety-provoking, and this sort of routine can create anxiety that lasts well into your day. Here are some tips for creating a routine that will set you up for successful stress-free …
Richard (Rick) Snyderman, LPC, CADC, CSAT, NCC (Therapist & Director of Support Groups)
Rick Snyderman, LPC, CADC, CSAT, NCC
Therapist & Director of Group Therapy
Rick Snyderman, LPC, CADC, CSAT, NCC (he/him/his) has been a therapist at The Center for Growth in Philadelphia PA for …
Being Mindful During Sex: Find-the-Smell Activity
Become more mindful during sex with Find-the Smell activity.
Stopping Anxious Thoughts
Most individuals have experienced unwanted or unhelpful anxious thinking. This tip illustrates an effective, simple technique to stop anxious thoughts associated with rumination, OCD, or general anxiety.
Motivating Yourself When Depressed
Unfortunately, nearly every person has or will experience symptoms of depression to a certain degree. This article will explain how depression engenders apathy, as well as how to fight against it. Motivating yourself when depressed …
Sexual Scripts and ED
This article will explain what sexual scripts are, how they contribute to ED, and ways that you can modify or challenge old, unproductive sexual scripts.
Musical Emotional Awareness
Sometimes it can be difficult to be in touch with your own emotions. This exercise uses music to help you tune into and name your own emotions so that you can build emotional awareness.
Babyloss Grief: Couples
Answers to common questions that couples have about babyloss.
Resolving Shame
Shame is how we negatively judge ourselves about an action that we did. Shame is a powerful emotion but there are ways to work on resolving shame.
Premarital Counseling Q and A
Engaged? Planning your wedding? How will you plan for your marriage? This tip clarifies many of the questions people have before entering premarital counseling.
Healthier Person in a Relationship
What do you do when you are the emotionally healthier person in a relationship? Emotional health can be described through the concept of differentiation, which is described more in this tip as mismatched differentiation.
Differentiation Strategies
What to do when you are the emotionally healthier person in your relationship?
Knowing When to Date Again
Dating can be fun and exciting, but it can also obstruct your personal reasons for being single. To help you make an informed decision, this article is going to explore the ins and outs of …
Talking about Herpes
The thought of having a conversation about herpes can cause great anxiety. This tip will give you some starting points for talking to your potential sexual partners about herpes.
Babyloss and Holidays
Check out these tips to help cope with babyloss during the holiday season.
Relationship Ambivalence Counseling
Feeling breakup ambivalence? Not sure if you want in or out of your relationship? Are you fighting for working on your relationship but feel like your partner is half out the door? Feel yourself looking …
Feelings 101
Relearn what your emotions are telling you from the movie Inside Out
Saying No
This Philadelphian therapist guide may help you learn how to start saying "no" more.
Dual Process Grief
Learn about the Dual Process Model of Grief, a different way to view the grieving process.
Negative Self-Talk is not Accountability
Understand the difference between holding yourself accountable and negative self-talk
Recognizing Your Conflict Style
Conflict is one of the experiences that everyone has to go through, especially in relationships. If you’re someone who has been struggling with handling disagreements, whether they’re big or small, this article is for you …
Winter Relaxation Exercise
This winter relaxation exercise can help you to slow down, de-stress, and recharge before returning to the hustling and bustling of the season.
Codependent Couples
Relationship problems among couples could be related to codependency. Learn about what codependency is and the different patterns of how it may be exhibited in your partnership. Included in this tip is an exercise designed …
Decoding your Feelings
Decode the meaning behind your feelings to avoid getting overwhelmed.
Continuing Bonds
Learn about continuing bonds during the grieving process of babyloss.
Complicated Grief
I frequently encounter questions from patients, family, and friends, who are worried that they are not grieving in a normal or healthy way, such as: "Why aren't I feeling better? It's been months since my …
Tidying Up Your Mind
This tip uses concepts from the popular Netflix show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo to help you understand and let go of negative or unhelpful core beliefs.
Bring Your Own Porn
Bring Your Own Porn: Improve your Sex Life with a BYO Porn Night
Anxiety Timeline
Grab a better understanding of your anxiety using this anxiety timeline exercise
The Six Rs
Philadelphia therapist suggests coping mechanisms to aid in the process of mourning a loss.
Couples’ Formula for Successful Requests
Learn how to ask your partner for what you need.
Final Words
Final words: Just as no two people have the same personality, no two individuals leave the world the same way.
Creating a Mantra Card
This tip will help you pick a mantra that works for you, and guide you in creating a mantra card so that you have an accessible visual reminder of your mantra at all times.
Am I Too Emotional
The concern of being too emotional may stem from the direct criticism of others, one’s intrapersonal experiences, or by simply living in a culture that favors aloofness. Here’s an article to help you determine if …
Hardships Are Temporary
It doesn’t matter who you are or how many luxuries you have; every person is going to experience hardships in their life. Though they feel as though they'll last forever, most hardships are temporary.
Journaling Through Grief
This tip provides how-to guidance on journaling after the loss of a loved one. It explores how and why journaling can be a healing practice during grief.
Anxiety and Strength Training
Did you know you can use the same techniques to prepare to strength train to decrease anxiety?
Building Intimacy With Massage
This tip provides specific techniques on how to give a back massage with the intention of building intimacy and connection with a partner.
Mourning Your Affair Partner
This tip provides ideas for mourning the loss of your affair partner.
Releasing Anxiety Through The Body
Use this mindfulness technique to recognize and reverse physical symptoms of anxiety to facilitate ease in letting go of anxious thoughts.
Your First Time
This TIP talks about what to expect during your first therapy session at The Center for Growth.
Moving Towards Recovery or Relapse
Recovering from an a dependence or compulsion is hard enough. Once in recovery, a sober person hears a lot about the potential for relapse. This TIP helps outline some of the signs that a person …
Changing Core Beliefs
This article discusses how to address your negative core beliefs and learn to change them.
Triggers
The abortion debate in this country has never been more topical, and more rampant. Due to recent legislative attempts to regulate women's reproductive rights, it is likely that you'll see many posts about abortion on
Disclosing Invisible Illness
An exercise to help you decide who to disclose what to about your invisible illness(es)
Babyloss and Anxiety
Even if you have always believed yourself to be psychologically healthy, the experience of babyloss can challenge how you view yourself, others, and the world. Of course, it's not uncommon for first-time moms to experience
Creativity and Babyloss
After the loss of a much-wanted pregnancy, the last thing on your mind may be creativity, and that's understandable. The early days of grief feel so very physical, and that's because there is a large
Keeping Your Relationship Balanced
Keeping your relationship balanced in order to move it forward in a positive direction is described.
PCOS and Mental Health
Knowing the connection between PCOS and mental health issues and how to seek help for them can make living with this condition much more manageable from a mental health perspective.
Asking for Help
Asking for help can be easy for some and challenging for others. This self-help TIP guides you through some of the barriers that get in the way of asking for help and ways to resolve …
Initial and Subsequent Emotions
Initial and subsequent emotions can improve your emotional awareness, which can ultimately improve your mental health.
How to Handle Rejection
Unless you’re extremely lucky, every person is going to experience rejection at some point. Here’s how to handle rejection in a healthy, productive way.
OB Care Post Babyloss
After experiencing babyloss, you may be looking for a new obstetrical provider. But, where do you begin, and what should you ask?
Baby Showers
You've just lost your pregnancy, and now you've been invited to a baby shower. Should you go?
End Binge Eating with the Hunger Scale
Mindfully manage binge eating with this hunger scale
Couples: Talking About Money
Use these prompts to talk to your partner about money
Maintaining a Long-Distance Relationship
Maintaining a Long-Distance Relationship As rewarding and pleasurable as they may be, relationships are always challenging. In this day and era, the landscape of relationships has begun to change, and geographic separation has become reality
Postpartum OCD
Unfortunately, PPOCD still remains in the shadows of postpartum mental health, because its symptoms can be even more troubling and stigmatizing.
Balancing Your Thoughts
This tip will provide an exercise that can help you begin to find more balance in your negative and positive thinking.
Slowing Down Eating Binges
Use this mindfulness exercise to manage binge eating
Expressing Emotions Nonverbally
There are other ways to express one's emotions aside from just talking about them. This tip highlights alternatives to sharing how you feel with others if you are not much of a "talker."
Moving Toward Emotional Availability
How to become more emotionally available and increase the level of intimacy in your relationship
Coping during Fertility Treatment
While not every woman wants to have children, those do, but struggle to conceive, face a unique and often isolating journey. Often, society tells us that if we cannot conceive spontaneously and naturally, or carry
Non-Violent Communication
How to engage in non-violent communication
Emotional Violence: The Subtleties of Emotional Abuse
The many forms of subtle emotional abuse and the impact that it has on your mental and physical health.
Georgine Atacan, MSW, LSW (Associate Therapist)
Georgine Atacan, MSW, LSW (she/her/hers) works with teens and young adults under 30 in both individual and family therapy. She joined TCFG in 2018 and her areas of interest include: adolescent & Issues, adjustment disorders …
4-7-8 Breathing Technique: The Biology of Calming Down
4-7-8 Breathing Technique: The Biology of Calming Down is an important tool that can easily be self taught.
Managing Anxiety: Color Breathing Technique
The color breathing technique is a simple and quick activity that combines breathing and grounding exercises to help reduce the impact of anxiety and stress on an individual in a variety of ways.
7 Day Intimacy Challenge
Take a week to deepen your relationships and your capacity for intimacy.
Non-Validated Reproductive Loss
October 15th marks Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance day. If you have been anywhere near social media, you may have noticed pink and blue ribbons on profile pictures, friends disclosing their loss experiences, and photos
Helping Siblings Cope
October 13th marked the annual observance of Sibling Loss Awareness Day. Often called the "forgotten mourners", siblings--especially children who lose a brother or sister--may not always have their grief acknowledged, validated, or supported during the
Essential Oils for Mental Health
Learn how to use essential oils to support mental health treatment and relieve symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression.
Color Breathing Guided Meditation
Use this guided meditation that combines deep breathing and visualization of emotion as colors to actively shift out of a negative mood or feeling.
Having Difficult Conversations
While social media can be a wonderful venue for bringing friends and family together, arguments online about abortion can devolve into the Wild West.
Decatastrophizing: Challenging Anxious and Depressive Thoughts
When faced with a difficult or unknown situation, do you tend to focus on the worst-case scenario? Cognitive distortions may make us think something sounds rational and accurate but it only serves to keep us …
Feeling Stuck in Therapy
This article will help you assess whether you are truly stuck in therapy or if you simply feel as though you are. If you are truly stuck, no worries. This article will also guide you …
Understanding Denial with Compulsive Problematic Behavior
This article is designed to help loved ones understand denial with compulsive problematic behavior.
How Long Grief Lasts
This tip explores how long grief lasts.
The Chakras Explained
A basic description of the seven chakras and how energy can impact mental and physical wellbeing.
Defining the Relationship
This tip will give you a tool that helps to clearly define relationship expectations in any sort of partnership.
Denial of Problematic Compulsive Behavior
Denial of compulsions can be a very challenging experience, especially for loved ones. This article explains how family members and friends can help the person they care about get dry.
Pleasure, Physical Touch, and Low Sexual Desire
Low sexual desire can be a frustrating challenge to navigate and can affect the satisfaction you feel in your relationship. In this tip, we explore an alternative way for you and your partner to reclaim …
Lying and Compulsions
Lying and compulsive behaviors tend to go together for many different reasons. Whether it be to cope with feelings of guilt and shame or societal stigma, there are some behaviors a person struggling with struggling …
Complex trauma: what is it?
This article will help you understand what complex trauma is and some of the symptoms associated with it. If you find yourself struggling with similar feelings or experiences mentioned in this article, please know that …
Doula Care
When you are expecting a rainbow baby after pregnancy loss, you may need extra care preparing for birth. Here's how a doula can help.
Ambiguous Loss
Being human means feeling the pain of loss, usually through death, at some point in our lives. Though we all want our loved ones to live long, healthy lives, and die painlessly in their sleep
Beat Anxiety and Worry
Learn how to beat worries on a cognitive level and tackle anxiety on a physical level, to double your skills for beating anxiety and worry.
Create Your Body Pie: Body Image Game for Couples
By internalizing our societies' norms, standards, and expectation of beauty, we often end up with negative self-talk, shame, and insecurities around our bodies and body parts. Taking the risk to share your thoughts with your …
I Don’t Like My Therapist
What do you do if you find yourself saying, “I don’t like my therapist”? Besides finding a new clinician, this article will also discuss how to talk with your therapist about your dissatisfaction.
What to Do When You Don't Like Your Therapist
After you have taken the time to assess why you don’t like your therapist, you can take certain steps to express your ideal change.
Babyloss and Guilt
I was responsible for what happened to my baby. My body failed my baby; I failed my baby. Now that I'm pregnant again, I should be bonding with this baby, but I can't. It will
How many children?
One of the hardest questions a babyloss mother can encounter is, "how many children do you have?". It's usually an innocent question, posed by a stranger, perhaps when meeting a mother and her child or …
(Not) Kissing Game
Use this game to build anticipation and sexual desire in your relationship.
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Talking about Babyloss to Children
Whether your first child was healthy and you lost a subsequent pregnancy, or your first pregnancy ended and you had subsequent healthy children, it is natural to want to have a discussion with surviving children …
Understanding Your Sex Values
This tip helps readers identify values related to sex.
Expanding Cultural Lens
This tip is a fun way to create active dialogue around other's culture
Covid - 19 Resources in Philly
COVID-19 has impacted the daily lives of everyone in Philly. At The Center for Growth, we want to do everything we can to help you stay safe and sane during this trying time. We are …
Sexual Consent: Self Check
This tip provides ideas for how to check in with yourself when it comes to giving sexual consent.
Managing Anxiety During Self-Isolation
Use these therapist-recommended tips to manage anxiety during self-isolation.
Play Therapy
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Play therapy is a structured approach to therapy that builds on the natural language of children, the language of play. Therapists use various …
Grief & Loss Therapy
Grief Therapy can be very useful and effective to help individuals cope with the emotions and stressors connected to a loss. Everyone responds to loss differently, and depending on the individual and the severity of …
Sex Therapy
What can you expect from sex therapy? Sex therapy is superior to other forms of therapy for sexual problems because sex therapists have specific training in sexual function and dysfunction. Additionally, many (but not all)
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How to Self-Soothe
This is a self soothing exercise to help you manage your emotions in times of discomfort.
Babyloss, Pregnancy, and COVID-19
This article will outline what is currently known, and provide some advice for women who are trying to conceive, currently pregnant, or postpartum during COVID-19.
Healing from Trauma
Trauma often robs us of the feeling that we are in charge of our lives. It can make us question the world and feel out of control in relation to our mind, body and emotions …
COVID-19 and Anxiety Thoughts
The uncertainty of COVID-19 has created anxiety for many people. COVID-19 changed many of our routines and daily life almost overnight which creates anxiety for many. While anxiety is a reasonable response to COVID-19 and …
Dealing with Death during COVID-19
Death happens all the time, but in the new era of social distancing and pandemic, how can we cope?
Improve Your Therapy Experience
This article talks about how to improve the therapeutic relationship with your therapist if you are beginning to feel stuck or believe you reached a plateau in your personal therapy.
Learn to Love Your Body
Learn how to learn to love your body by getting to know the parts of you that you may have never really noticed before. Put these simple, powerful tools into action every day to unlock …
Chakra Clearing
A guided meditation to balance energy and facilitate health through clearing the chakras.
Teens and COVID-19
Social Distancing, staying at home due to COVID-19 and being a teen is a major shift. Adapting to this new normal is hard for everyone. It is especially hard for teens who are naturally more …
Hope during a Pandemic
This tip provides some ways of holding onto hope in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, and offers a new way of thinking about what it really means to have hope.
Strengthen Your Inner Voice
For some people, especially those who identify as “people pleasers,” it can be hard to tune out the opinions of others and tune into yourself. This article is aimed at those who want to strengthen …
Ending a Wanted Pregnancy
Ending a wanted pregnancy . . .
What is Self-Abandonment?
Self-abandonment can be understood as the rejection of your own thoughts, feelings and needs. Self-abandonment occurs when we experience an emotion that requires our attention, and we ignore it by reaching for an external distraction.
Mindful Touch
A mindful touch ritual can bring fresh energy into your relationship by creating an intentional space for slowing down, tuning into the breath and experiencing radical intimacy through the sensation of loving touch. Through …
Loneliness: An Epidemic
If you don’t feel good about yourself, it’s harder to take the risks involved in letting other people know you. If you are used to isolation, it becomes harder
Choose For Yourself Which Therapist Best Meets Your Needs
Search for an InPerson or Virtual Therapist by Location, Speciality and Cost. You have the ability to self schedule or to contact the intake line 215-922-5683 x 100 and we can talk with you to …
Fear of Abandonment: An Overview
Friends may find your behaviors confusing, or interpret them as demanding when you’re expecting constant inclusion, or immediate text message responses.
Lancie Mazza, LCSW (Therapist & Director Of Virginia Office)
Lancie Mazza, LCSW (she / her / hers) has been working as a counselor for 25+ years. She received her Masters in Social Work at University of Pennsylvania, and has gone …
Whiteness, Trauma, and the Body
This tip is for white-bodied folks who are looking for new ways of staying engaged in anti-racist work. Using trauma-informed psychotherapy, this tip will help you work with whiteness, trauma, and your body to help …
Understanding Psychological Assessment
Psychological assessment is used to help you and your therapist understand how to help you. If you are considering psychological assessment services, this tip will tell you what to expect.
Getting in the Habit of Meditating
Tired of people telling you that you should meditate? This tip uses the psychology of habit formation to help you understand how to work with frustration and build a sustainable, rewarding meditation practice.
Contacting White Fragility
Part Two of "Whiteness, Trauma, and the Body". This tip builds on the idea that white-bodied folks can show up for racial justice by tuning into how racism lives in our bodies.
Life After the Narcissist Support Group
Were you raised by narcissists? Have you dated one? Do you find yourself in partnerships in which your feelings and needs are not valued? If you answered yes, you might benefit from joining our Life …
Accepting Anxiety
What happens when we are stuck picturing anxiety as an enemy? This tip uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to explore how we can feel better by remember what matters to us and being willing …
Make the Most of Telehealth
Consider all the in's and out's of telehealth (virtual therapy) and how to make the most of your therapy experience--virtually!
Relationship Problems with Social Media
Social media can be a lot of fun, but also cause problems in your relationship if mutually agreed-on boundaries are not applied. This article describes some of the issues that could arise with social media …
Trouble Sleeping?
Having trouble sleeping is incredibly common. If you have been having frequent and severe trouble sleeping, you might be experiencing insomnia. This tip reviews effective behavior change strategies that will help you get some rest …
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Common Reasons People Self Sabotage
Self-sabotaging behaviors are a part of a confusing pattern that can inhibit ourselves from reaching goals and maintaining happy lives and fulfilling relationships. Self-sabotage is often linked to questions around self-worth, fear of change and …
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Unblocking The Throat Chakra
If you're feeling as though it's hard to express yourself clearly, you might have a block in your throat chakra. Unblocking the throat chakra is a process that will allow you to trust your words …
The Boundary Circle
Codependency Therapy: the boundary circle encompasses the whole process of setting a boundary: defining what the boundary is, or what you need to feel safe, how to communicate the boundary, or capturing the words that …
Getting Kinky
Want to try something new in the bedroom but you're stuck on what to try? With this activity, you and your partner can explore new sexual activities in a structured yet fun way!
Experimenting with Mutual Masturbation
If you're struggling with penetrative and want to try a new form of sexual intimacy, mutual masturbation may be an option for you. Learn how to mutually masturbate with your partner and explore a new …
Managing Negative Thoughts
Sometimes we have negative thoughts that make us feel ashamed, guilty, enraged, or hopeless. These thoughts are "sticky" - they are familiar, unpleasant, and frequent. This tip is about how cognitive defusion can help you …
Benefits of Online Therapy
There are many benefits to seeing a therapist online compared to physically going to a therapist's office. Many different examples of these advantages are cited.
Quality Time with Your Partner
Spending quality time with your partner is something most couples want as part of their relationship. This article discusses examples of what quality time is and what it is not.
“Yes and…” Creating a Sexual Fantasy Roleplay
Learn how to introduce sexual fantasies into your sex life with this fun, easy, and simple exercise adopted by a common theater game.
Values
Most of the time, we go to therapy because we’re trying to get rid of something. This tip flips the script on that story and helps you create a new one rooted in what's important …
Identifying Unhealthy Productivity Culture
With personal and professional obligations seemingly on the rise, unhealthy productivity culture is especially relevant in 2020. Here are ways to recognize if you’ve fallen into unhealthy productivity culture.
Committed Action
You can live each day as though it represents the life you really want to live. This is called committed action.
Gottman Communication Assessment
Learn to identify unhealthy communication strategies and determine if and how they show up in your relationship.
Manage Money Anxiety: The Financial Snapshot
Use this therapist-created exercise to manage money anxiety.
Gottman's Four Horsemen
Understand the nuances of Gottman's Four Horsemen to better examine you and your partner's communications patterns.
Nicole Jenkins M.S. (Associate Therapist)
Nicole Jenkins MS(she/her/hers) counseling philosophy is rooted in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eclectic therapy. The eclectic approach allows her to glean from various theories and present a more tailored treatment plan for clients. She believes …
Dating During COVID
A helpful guide for those looking to date during the hardships of COVID-19 and social-distancing.
Reducing Unhealthy Productivity
Unhealthy productivity is convincing yourself to stay busy, even when all the essential items have been done. This form of productivity is unhealthy because it makes it difficult to differentiate between wants and needs.
Finding Resilience During COVID-19
COVID-19 calls for greater resilience than ever. Find your motivation for resilience in this article.
L&D or D&E?
Saying goodbye to your baby is never easy. Which method is right for you?
How To Do Self Care
An exploration of the ways one can do self care and how to schedule activities that are specific to and mindful of what each individual needs at any given time.
Emotional Cushioning
What is emotional cushioning, and are you doing it?
Short-Term Symptoms
After a termination, miscarriage, or stillbirth, you're bound to experience some distressing physical and psychological symptoms. What do they look like, and how can you prepare?
Pathology
Please note, in this article the term “fetus” or “fetal remains” is used for consistency only and is not meant to take a political stance. You may have called your fetus a baby, or even
Babyloss in Unintended Pregnancy
If we all had our way, parents would have total control over when and how they get pregnant: minimal trying, minimal effort, and an easy pregnancy journey. Unfortunately, this is not the reality. Sometimes
The "New Normal"
Once upon a time, you were pregnant, but now you are not. Some time has passed since your loss, and maybe in some ways, life is returning to the way it was. People don’t
Loved One Of A Person With Compulsion Problems Support Group
Adult support group for the loved ones of those suffering through Compulsive behaviors, thoughts and feelings(towards substances, sex, money, hoarding. The impact of their thought process can be felt by those close to them and …
Palumbo
Parent and teen communication tool. This can be used as an assessment, as well as a tool to begin to improve communication between teen and parent.
Covid During the Holidays
This year, everyone has to deal with covid during the holidays. A global pandemic affects travel, safety, and expectations, which all influences a person’s mental health.
Who Am I?
Everyone has thoughts about who they are. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy suggests we can relate to these thoughts in a new way, called self-as-context. Practicing this skill, along with other ACT skills, can help us …
Infertility and Babyloss
Many parents find that they are unable to conceive without help from reproductive endocrinology (RE) and fertility experts. Sadly, even in this age of advanced reproductive technology and diagnosis, in-vitro (IVF) and intra-uterine insemination
Therapy and Babyloss
Going to therapy always feels like a big decision, no matter what. Sometimes, seeking therapy after a loss can feel especially overwhelming, especially because of all of the harmful messages society tells us about
Therapy in a Rainbow Pregnancy
Sometimes, getting pregnant again after babyloss is just the tip of the iceberg, and instead of feeling relief after seeing a positive test result, many loss parents feel dread. Though they wanted and hoped
Mindfulness Based Skills Group
This group teaches mindfulness meditation practice: a powerful way to calm down, get to know your thoughts and feelings, and find joy in your life
Early Rainbow Pregnancy Support
Infertility and BabylossHow can you cope with anxiety when you are newly pregnant after a babyloss?
OCD Support Group
This group is for individuals who are diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. This group is for individuals who find themselves spending more time than they want on both mental and physical compulsions in their daily …
Seasonal Affective Disorder and Covid
Are you finding that you’re experiencing Seasonal Affective Disorder more this year during Covid? Check out these tips on how to overcome the symptoms.
Showers, SAD, and Sexual Desire
Has Seasonal Affective Disorder created a disconnect between you and your own body? Here's a tip on how to take a daily task, something as simple as a shower, to create a mindful experience and …
Signs of a Bad Relationship
Relationships can be a great source of support, love, and excitement. Even if they start off fantastic, however, relationships can also be unhealthy or even toxic.
Being Your Own Valentine
This tip is written for someone who does not have a date or has difficulty in conceptualizing self love/compassion without material possessions.
Arguing Fairly
How to argue fairly and constructively with your partner to make disagreements more productive than destructive.
Understanding Process versus Content
One aspect of “effective arguing” is understanding process versus content. Understanding the difference will lead to healthier, more productive arguments.
Why You Should Try Mindfulness
This tip is for someone interested in trying mindfulness and experiencing its benefits when dealing with life stressors.
Spotting Grounding Technique
This article is a great way to help anxious people get introduced to a grounding technique called Spotting, in which you can calm your body down, and be present with yourself.
The ABCS of Burnout
This tip provides an organized way to categorize symptoms of burnout in your life.
The Psychological Impact of Lyme Disease
This article is geared towards those who suffer from Lyme Disease as well as loved ones, partners, and caretakers who want to learn more about the disease, in particular the link between Lyme and psychological …
Jonah Taylor, LCSW (Therapist)
Jonah Taylor (he/him) is a therapist at The Center for Growth specializing in mindfulness-based therapy for mental health and well-being. Jonah’s therapy practice includes a current focus on couples counseling, relationship issues, men's …
Should I Get Back with My Ex?
During the aftermath of a breakup, it’s very common to wonder if we even made the right decision. Here are some strategies to help you gain clarity.
Self Improvement Spin
This article teaches you a positive, affirming method to help you identify things you want to change about yourself while not getting stuck in negative self talk.
Socializing Post Pandemic
Socializing post pandemic is important currently. It’s been nearly a year and a half since the pandemic started in the U.S. For nearly 18 months. While some people have retained their social grace, others have …
How to Beat Sleep Anxiety as a Teenager
Learn how to effectively manage anxiety around sleep as a teenager. This self-help tip includes information on optimizing a teenager's bedtime routine and tools to manage anxious thoughts.
Honoring Your Grief
Grief can feel isolating and overwhelming. There are different emotions one might experience after losing a loved one. This article will review the different emotions of grief and how to honor your grief.
Understanding Your Child
Understanding your child is not always the easiest as they are growing and experiencing the world outside of your home. This article will help parents and caretakers understand their children's perspective as they navigate the …
Caring What Others Think
This article discusses the human tendency to care about the perceptions of others and offers journal exercises as a way to combat the anxiety that can arise from this. What are you afraid of? Who …
Hiring a Doula
This article outlines different factors to consider when hiring a doula. If you are unsure of what questions to ask or where to begin, this tip is for you!
Affirmations vs. IF-ermations
Do you ever find yourself feeling defeated by affirmations? This self help tip provides a helpful alternative called IF-ermations.
The Four Horsemen and OCD
This article is designed to help individuals with OCD and their partners better understand how to utilize the skill of Gottman's Four Horsemen of relationships.
Pregnant and Afraid?
This tip will explore some of the common fears that people experience when finding out they are pregnant. Understanding these fears can better prepare you to move through them and towards a hopeful future.
Why Your Grief May Not Fit in Five Stages
The process of grieving isn't universal or linear, so Kübler-Ross’ five stages aren't helpful for everyone. Try these more individualized and flexible considerations for coping with your unique grief process.
Trauma and OCD
In this article, the reader will explore the relationship between trauma and OCD obsessive compulsive disorder.
Discovering your Deeper Needs
In this article, the reader will find a writing exercise that will help them to define their needs within interpersonal relationships.
The Inner Critic
In this article, readers will explore the essence of the inner critic and how this part of self shows up in everyday life.
My Feelings Matter Meditation
In this article, readers will learn how to construct an individualized meditation for themselves that will help support self-esteem and self-discovery.
The Power of Choice
In this article, the reader will explore the power of using mindfulness in the realm of decision-making.
Creating Your Own Retreat
We live in a fast and busy world and we need intentional time set apart to reset. This article will help you begin to plan your own retreat, so that you can live in this …
Coping with Goodbyes
Unexpected or planned grief from goodbyes is normal and common. You will see that there are many reasons someone may have a problem adjusting to letting go regardless of the life category. It may not …
Worry Time
Do you often find yourself worrying about events in the future? Check out this article on ways to combat worry and anxiety through worry time!
OCD Versus Perfectionism
This is an article about understanding the differences between OCD and perfectionism.
See and Be: A Mindful Communication Exercise for Couples
Many couples feel emotional disconnection in their relationship. Use this mindful communication exercise to develop emotional presence.
Janette Dill, MFT (Associate Therapist)
Janette Dill, MFT (she/her) is a graduate of LaSalle University’s Marriage and Family Therapy Program which included a one year internship where she worked with individuals, couples, and family systems. Added to that list …
Self Of The Therapist Group
Self of the Therapist is a group program designed for interns and new clinicians to the Center For Growth that provides a structured space to process the uniqueness of who you are and how …
Teen Therapy and Adolescent Therapy
Creating a Sensory Toolkit
In Creating a Sensory Toolkit, readers will learn how construct an individualized sensory toolkit to help cope with anxiety. Sensory toolkits are helpful for grounding through the 5 senses.
Authentic Self & Christianity
If you identify as Christian, you may find it difficult to balance being yourself while also "denying" yourself. What does it mean to become Christ-like and also be true to your authentic self? These are …
Reverse Culture Shock
Experiencing reverse culture shock upon returning to your home country can feel very disorienting and isolating. This article outlines some of the emotions you may be experiencing and how to navigate this time of transition.
Art Therapy and Counseling
Art Therapy promotes healing and change through guided and spontaneous art making within the context of a supportive, therapeutic relationship. A key tenet of art therapy is the acknowledgment that humans are complex beings best …
Sensory Processing Concerns Post COVID-19
This article is for individuals with Sensory Processing Disorders (or sensory processing concerns) to help learn self advocacy for the transition back into the "in-person" lifestyle after COVID-19.
Sensory Friendly Tools for Comfort
This article is for individuals that may need a sensory friendly tool while transitioning back to society post COVID-19. This article explains how and why sensory friendly tools may be needed.
A Meditation for Medical Uncertainty and Chronic Pain
This tip is for those grappling with chronic symptoms, like pain or gastrointestinal distress, and medical uncertainty, when doctors are unable to easily explain or treat your symptoms.
Using Music to Identify Your Emotions
Using music to identify your emotions. Anyone experiencing anxiety or depression can discover the power of using music as a coping technique.
Clinician to Client: Homework
Do you want to start therapy but want more information on what therapy looks like, or what you will be doing? Check out this article on the use of homework in therapy sessions to help …
Are You Minding Your Food
Are You Minding Your Food? Mindfulness seems to be one of the new buzz words. If you google it or search in YouTube you’ll find tons of corresponding sites. Most people attribute it to breathing
Acknowledging the Benefits of Anxiety
This is an article about learning how to identify the benefits of your anxiety in order to create a more compassionate relationship with it.
People Pleasing: Anxiety Therapy
Have you ever been called a people pleaser or think that you engage in people pleasing behaviors? This tip will help you to identify if you engage in people pleasing behaviors that are problematic and …
Explore Your Imposter Syndrome as a New Therapist
This tip is for graduate students completing their internships and early-career social workers, counselors, and psychologists who feel inadequate or unprepared to work as therapists.
As a new therapist, maybe …
Field of Protection
This mindfulness and spirituality based exercise will help you create a field of protection that keeps your boundaries, energy and personal preferences strong and intact.
Spiritual Bypassing
If you are struggling to honor your spiritual beliefs and also care for your mental health needs, you may benefit from spiritual therapy to learn about spiritual bypassing and how to identify it.
Aromatherapy for the Holidays
Struggling with the stressful aspects of the Holidays this year? Check out this tip that focuses on cheap, easy, and fun ways to destress with aromatherapy!
OCD as a Superpower
This tip considers the many strengths people with OCD have, in order to take a more compassionate look at their diagnosis.
Build Stability with Morning Routines
Life can be unpredictable. Use this tip to develop a grounding morning routine you can take anywhere.
Maintaining Motivation: A Foot in the Door
Do you often find yourself struggling to get things done at home once you’ve had a full day at work or school? If so, you aren’t alone! Check out this tip on how to maintain …
The Benefits of OCD Support Groups
This tip discusses the unique benefits of attending an OCD support group to manage one's OCD more effectively.
From Stress to Rest
If you find it difficult to recognize when you are in a state of stress and have a hard time calming down, this article will give you tips on how to move from stress to …
Shifting Gender Identity
Do you feel your gender pulling you in a new direction lately? Sometimes it moves around and is hard to catch, pin down, and understand what it’s telling you.
How To Stay Broken Up
Breakups are hard, painful, and often messy. If you are unsure whether your ex should stay an ex, or if you simply need more assurance, this article is for you.
Identifying your Underlying Values: 80th birthday exercise
The 80th Birthday Exercise can help you identify your values and create meaning in your life. It is a good way to get a birds-eye view of the kind of life you want for yourself …
Coping with Pain and Depression during a Chronic Illness Episode
This tip is for people struggling with pain and depression during a chronic illness flare up.
Stressed Out Teens? Try Forest Bathing.
This is an anxious time for teens. Take them forest bathing to combine mindfulness with the benefits of being outside in nature.
Emily Davis, MS, LAC(Associate Therapist)
Emily Davis (she / her) is an Associate Therapist at The Center for Growth. Emily provides a warm, friendly and supportive environment where she values each client’s strengths and goals. In a session with …
Chronic Pain & illness Support Group
The Powerful Pause
Strong emotions can snap us too quickly into harmful actions or angry words. Break this pattern by harnessing the “powerful pause.”
Assertive Patience in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Assertive Patience is the skill of developing awareness of your own individuals reactions in order to have more harmonious interactions regardless of any external influences.
Spot Love-Bombing In Action
Are you being love-bombed? Notice these red flags and create a dating journal to assess your new relationship.
Teen Depression
This article addresses teen depression and offers practical tips on how to navigate it.
Break Up at Work
A break up at work can be a very stressful experience. How do you decide whether to leave your job or stay and manage working with your ex?
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Opposite Action for Emotion Regulation--A DBT Tip
If you feel out of control sometimes, try this opposite action for emotion regulation tip from The Center for Growth in Philadelphia.
ADHD: Turn Your Brain Off
ADHD Therapy: Turn Off Your Brain Are you feeling easily burnt out? These days, that’s typical. Balancing the demands of everyday life probably means you're juggling numerous responsibilities and struggling to find time to turn
How to Calm Your Racing Thoughts: Mindfulness Therapy
Do you struggle with racing thoughts and controlling them? Here are some tips to help.
Getting To Know Your Teen : Therapy for Teens
Are you struggling to connect with your teen as they get older? Learn get-to-know you strategies to strengthen your relationship with your teen.
Self-Care For Teens
Are you a teen struggling to understand how to implement self-care into your life? Find different ways to think about self-care that are personal to you.
Trauma Therapy
Depression Therapy Services
When you think of depression, sadness may first come to mind. But depression is much more than the ordinary sadness you might expect someone to feel after losing a job or failing a test …
Anxiety, Panic, OCD Therapy
Anxiety Therapy : Panic Attack Therapy: OCD Therapy
Here’s an important truth about anxiety: Everyone has it. Simply put, anxiety is the mind’s ability to imagine, plan, and anticipate as means of keeping …
What are Meta-Emotions?
Mindfully noticing and addressing our meta-emotions can be a powerful tool to reduce suffering as we move through our daily lives.
Spirituality for Teens: Mindfulness Therapy for Teens in Philadelphia
A personal sense of spirituality protects teens from substance abuse, mental health issues, and risky behavior. Teens can strengthen their innate spirituality through practices like mindfulness.
Assessing Your Self Care Needs
If self-care seems out of reach or hard to keep up on, try this tip of assessing your self care needs from the therapists at The Center for Growth in Philadelphia PA
Coping with the Death of Your Spouse in Adulthood
How do you begin to move forward after your spouse dies in adulthood?
When Your Spouse Dies By Suicide
How do you move forward when your spouse has died by suicide?
Art Therapy Group
The Center For Growth’s Art Therapy Group in Philadelphia, PA The Art Therapy Group at The Center For Growth is designed for those looking to engage their creative sides and connect with others while
The Anxious Brain: Anxiety Therapy
The Anxious Brain: Anxiety Therapy: When one thinks about having anxiety there is often a stigma attached to the word. And the idea that you might need anxiety therapy can feel shameful or at best
Breaking through ADHD Paralysis with The Intentional Countdown
ADHD Paralysis with the intentional countdown: ADHD Therapy "When we do a simple task, we’re not just dealing with the task, we are also dealing with the Wall of Awful in front of it.” -Brendan
Feel Like Yourself Again After a Breakup
It is common to not feel like yourself or like you have lost yourself after a breakup. So, how do you feel like yourself again after a breakup? Here are some tips to help.
Mindfulness Based Therapy
Originally a key feature of ancient Buddhist practice, mindfulness and mindfulness-based therapy have revolutionized mental healthcare over the last half century since being introduced to the West. By teaching people to pay attention to the
Shame Therapy
Shame tends to be viewed as this negative emotion that we shouldn’t talk about, let alone experience. Very seldom do people talk about the gifts of shame, and the growth that emerges when facing your
Mindful Eating with Gratitude
This article includes two guided mediations to help expand your mindfulness practice. The first walks you through an to build appreciation for the food you eat, how it got to your plate, and your body …
Special Community Alignment
Special Community Alignment: The Center for Growth prides itself on being a mental health organization that prioritizes social justice, diversity, and inclusion. Our therapists are kink-allied, racial justice allied, HIV/AIDs positive allied, poly and CNM
Child, Tweens, Teens Support Group
YES - Youth Educational Empowerment Support Group Registration: 215-922-5683 x 100 x 111 The Child, Tweens and Teen Support groups are otherwise known as the YES group, Youth Empowerment Support group. These child, tweens and
DBT Distress Tolerance
In this article, you will learn how to us the DBT Distress Tolerance skill called IMPROVE.
When Love Bombing Stops
In this article, you will understand to recognize the signs of love bombing by a narcissist, and when it comes to a stop.
Discussing Sex with Your Teen
In this article, we will explore the nuances of discussing sex with your teens.
Being Accused of Sexual Assault
In this article, we explore the steps to take if you have been accused of sexual assault, or a crime you didn't commit.
Having Fun Alone
Having Fun Alone with yourself should be a priority just like any other social event. Dating yourself is a great way to discover yourself and emotions as you navigate life.
Teens Need Positive Regard
This article provides tips on how to utilize Carl Roger's theory on positive regard. Helping parents connect with their teens through validation and support. After reading this article you will be able to address your …
Codependency Therapy Services
Practicing Gratitude
Practicing gratitude is always important, especially in a world in which it can feel like we are constantly getting a flood of bad news. It can also help to counteract depression and anxiety symptoms.
EMDR Therapy
You may have heard of the acronym EMDR and may have even heard that it is a good treatment for individuals with trauma issues. But what exactly is EMDR Therapy? EMDR stands for Eye Movement …
Do You Know What App that Is?
A tip to help parents and guardians understand and navigate their children's phone applications.
Body Avoidance: What it is and How to Combat it
Body avoidance is something many individuals struggle with. This article will help you understand what is body avoidance, signs of body avoidance, and ways to combat it.
Gender Non-Binary Support Group
Working From Home, Together. (Relationship Counseling)
Working from home with a partner can be challenging but rewarding if done right. This exercises can help you and your partner start the conversation of how to make it work for both of you.
Personality Disorder Treatment
Personality Disorder Treatment Services Quick Outline/Table of Contents What is a Personality Disorder?Stigmatization and GenderNature and NurtureTreatment at the Center for GrowthWhat is Borderline Personality Disorder? Can an Adolescent be Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder?Self-HarmEmotion
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery ..... What is Narcissistic Abuse? Narcissistic abuse is a very specific kind of abuse perpetrated by someone who has Narcissistic Personality Disorder, or very high traits of narcissism. Narcissistic Personality Disorder exists
Trauma: the Recovery, Healing, and Personal Growth Journey
This trauma and recovery article will support you in understanding your traumatic experiences, guide you with compassion during your personal growth journey, and if you are in struggle, provide you with some words to ask …
LGBTQIA+/Queer Community Counseling Services
The Center for Growth & The LGBTQIA+/Queer Community Counseling for the LGBTQIA+/Queer Community Clients from LGBT+/Queer communities can expect to be warmly welcomed to The Center for Growth / Therapy in Philadelphia, Ocean City, Providence
Changing Your Social Media for a Better Relationship with Your Body Image
Changing our social media can help improve our relationship with our body. Here are some first steps to take.
Covert Narcissism- What Makes It So Tricky To Identify
This TIP breaks down the differences between covert and overt narcissism and why covert narcissism can often be difficult to detect.
Therapy For Legal Issues
Therapy Services Offered For Legal Issues
Court Ordered Therapy (call Christian or Alex)
Therapy for Dealing with Child Custody Issues
Therapy for Going Through a Divorce
Therapy When You’re Charged With a …
Building Community as a College First Year
This tip describes methods of approaching others and building friendships during your first year in college. This includes resources to utilize while on campus.
Living with Parkinson's
This article is for those living with Parkinson's disease who want to develop more awareness and compassion related to the their bodily experience.
Functional Neurological Disorder FND Therapy
Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) Therapy
We offer individual, family therapy and support group services for functional neurological disorders in Philadelphia PA, Ocean City NJ, Mechanicsville VA and Santa Fe NM
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Dirty Scrabble
What is the adult version of Scrabble? Dirty scrabble, Sexy Scrapple or Adult Scrabble. Your call. Regardless of what you call the game, the adult rules stay the same. The Dirty Scrabble Game can be
Using Art Therapy To Explore Boundaries
This art therapy directive will help you to explore, understand, and set goals for your boundaries in personal, professional, and family relationships.
STOP Your Anxiety Now
If you struggle with anxious, sad, or angry thoughts, it can be difficult to get out from under them. The repetitive nature of thoughts can lead to the feeling that they will never go away …
Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)
Living with Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) can feel confusing and scary. There are not always clear answers and it may feel difficult to get the support you need from health care providers or loved ones
Diagnosed with Parkinson's
Being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease can leave you dealing with so many mixed emotions. It can leave you feeling afraid of what the future may hold. Questioning if you will ever have a normal life …
Internship & Fellowship Application Process
Internship and Fellowship Requirements
Parentified During Childhood
This tip explains the concept of parentification and how being parentified as a child can follow individuals into adulthood. This includes an in-depth example of parentification and a description of how parentification influences childhood development.
Tolerating Distress in EMDR
Traumatic experiences are challenging to address and can create significant distress. Tolerating distress in EMDR is an important skill to learn.
What to Expect In Your First Clinical Counseling Internship
This article discusses what intern therapists can expect as they begin their first clinical internship experience. Topics covered include note writing, researching cases, navigating supervision, and managing your own emotional landscape and self-care.
Social Media Conversations with Children
Learn ways to communicate with your child about social media and their safety. You will also get tips on learning how to foster better communication with your child around social media by understanding their interests …
Finding Meaning in Healing
As we change, our strategies and coping mechanisms we once used also need to change…but we have become so comfortable with them. It took you a lot of conscious (and unconscious) work to develop all …
Daughters of Narcissist Mothers
This TIP will help readers understand the unique impact that narcists mothers can impart on their daughters emotional wellbeing.
Understanding and Managing Summer Seasonal Affective Disorder (Summer SAD)
This TIP will help the reader understand how their mood can be impacted by seasonal changes in the summer and not just the winter.
The Harm of Food Morality in Orthorexia
Orthorexia is a condition where individual have an unhealthy focus on the cleanliness and health of foods. Food morality is a guiding principle in food morality. Learn about how to combat your food morality.
Your Inner Critic
Your inner critic might not always feel like your friend, but it considers itself to be your friend. It actually considers itself to be your BEST friend who loves you unconditionally. So your inner critic …
Healing Power of Soil
Have you ever considered soil as mood booster? This article proves it is well past time to expose dirt as the depression-busting powerhouse that it has always been.
What is DARVO?
What is DARVO? DARVO is a useful tool for examining and understanding problematic communication in a variety of interpersonal relationships. DARVO is an acronym that stands for Deny, Accuse, Reverse Victim and Offender and can …
Holiday Survival Guide: Politics
The holidays can be a tough time for everyone and can bring up a lot of difficult emotions and dynamics. With the recent midterm elections and other political tension in the country, it is likely …
Text Anxiety
Text anxiety occurs when you experience excess worry related to sending or receiving a text message. This can include feeling anxious after sending a text, when waiting for a response, or over analyzing a response …
Jessica Soriano, LSW (Associate Therapist)
Jessica Soriano, LSW in PA & NJ (she/her/hers) is an Associate Therapist at The Center for Growth.
Jessica Soriano, LSW (she/her/hers) is a compassionate therapist who serves individuals, couples, children and families. She …
Recognizing Emotions After Being Parentified
This tip explains how to begin the process of understanding emotions as an adult who was parentified as a child. This includes an exercise using an emotion wheel and detailing how emotions can present in …
Blended Families With Teenage Children
Blended families are super complex. This tip navigates starting these conversations about the process of blending a family system. As well as, signs for parents to look out for with their teenaged children.
Filipino American Mental Health
The Impact of Internal Beliefs and External Perceptions of Filipino-Americans in Determining Access to Mental Health
What is Couples Counseling?
What Is Couples Counseling? Couples counseling, also known as marriage or relationship therapy, is a type of therapy that focuses on improving communication and resolving conflicts within a romantic relationship. The therapy is typically
Trusting Yourself
This article walks you through a few practical ways you can begin to develop self-knowledge and self-trust, which can aid in more confident and convicted decision-making
Talking about your Eating Disorder with your Mom
Eating disorders can be hard to experience without the support of others. This article will help give you a framework when you decide you want to tell your mom about your eating disorder.
Ella Chrelashvili, MA (Associate Therapist)
Ella Chrelashvili (she/her/hers) is an associate therapist at The Center for Growth, providing individual, couples, and group therapy to adults and adolescents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Society Hill Therapy Office. In addition, she …
Self Esteem Therapy
Infertility Counseling Services
Infertility Counseling Services
Therapy in Philadelphia, Ocean City, Mechanicsville & Santa Fe
Biological parenthood is often described as being one of the most important, transformative and meaningful of …
Ayurveda and Your Mental Health: An Introduction
Ayurveda is a set of physical, mental, and emotional practices. These practices can support you in bringing awareness and balance in all that you feel, say, and do so you can live your authentic life.
Boundaries When Working Remotely
These reflection questions will help you to understand why it is so easy for boundaries to shift when working remotely and how yours have changed over time.
Combating Shame About Sexual Pain
This exercise will walk you through identifying unhelpful beliefs which may contribute to feelings of shame about painful sex.
Nutritional Counseling
Nutritional Counseling: Nutritionists That We Recommend (they do not work for us, we just really like the work they do)
- Olena Zinshtein, RD, LDN founder of Key Nutrition LLC, since 2010 she has worked in …
Legal Counseling: Locate a Recommended Lawyer
Mental Health Counseling Services offered at The Center For Growth
Court Ordered Therapy
Therapy for Dealing with Child Custody Issues
Therapy for Going Through a Divorce
Therapy When You’re …
Empathy Overload
Being empathetic is a common characteristic trait that many people admire. However, when fawning is mistaken as empathy, empathy overload is inevitable.
Anxiety and the RAIN Method
Although anxiety can feel like an annoying, unwelcome presence in your life, with some investigating, it can also tell you a little something about this fear; the root of the anxiety. Using the RAIN method …
Map Out Your Relationship
A written exercise to help couples examine the entirety of their relationship from their individual perspectives.
Harnessing Anger in Relationships
Anger standoffs between couples can be surprisingly common yet infrequently resolved in real-time. If these anger locks show up in your coupledome, dive into this blog. There's a smashingly effective exercise just within your reach!
Social Media Overload
Are you concerned about how much time your teen is spending on the internet? Social media overload could be the issue. Continue to read to learn ways to unplug your teen from the internet and …
Body Focused Repetitive Behavior Therapy
Living With Babyloss: Navigating the Grief and Uncertainties of Losing a Pregnancy
Anxiety Around Eating in Public
This article will help you understand if you have anxiety around eating in public, how it can affect your life, and what you can do to help subside that anxiety.
Identifying Narcissistic Abuse
Identifying several signs of narcissistic abuse and why they might be confusing or difficult to detect.
Building Confidence: Self Esteem Therapy
This article is about building confidence through using journal prompts that cultivate a growth mindset and eliminate shame. In this self esteem therapy exercise, the reader is asked to identify accomplishments and problem solve around …
Ayurveda and Your Mental Health: The Seasons
Emotions, colors, times of day, times of our lives, and seasons have their own elemental makeup that balance, agitate, enhance, or diminish the expression and reflection of our elemental makeup. Therefore it is important to …
Therapy for Older Adults
Learn about our therapy and counseling services for older adults.
How To Feel Your Feelings
These two guided mindfulness exercises will help you identity and feel your feelings.
Men: Improve Sexual Performance by Asking Yourself for Consent
Asking yourself for consent before engaging in sexual activity with others can be a helpful step in reducing male sexual dysfunction.
What Does It Mean To Be Non-binary?
Gender can be complicated in a society with strict rules about how people should feel, behave, and express themselves based on their assignment to one or the other of two genders. But many people, more …
Emotional Invalidation in Relationships
Sharing your thoughts and feelings is one of the most fulfilling ways to establish closeness, intimacy, and safety in a relationship. But when your emotions are dismissed, belittled, or questioned, the connection can be damaged …
You Deserve to Feel Safe at Home
You deserve to feel safe in your home. Feeling unsafe can have impacts on your physical and mental health,and it is an important part of assessing your overall physical and mental well-being.
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Navigating Parental Caregiving
This tip helps reflect on the role of caregiving and the issues that may arise once you take on such a complex role.
Men: Stop Compulsive Sexual Behavior by Healing Your Avoidant Attachment Style
For men who struggle with both an avoidant attachment style and compulsive sexual issues, emotionally focused therapy (EFT) can be a beneficial approach
Identify Your Defense Mechanisms
Learn about defense mechanisms and identify which ones might be influencing your life.
Dan Spiritoso, MS (Associate Therapist)
Dan Spiritoso MS (he/him/his) is an Associate Therapist at The Center for Growth within the Society Hill office, and he also provides virtual therapy throughout the state of Pennsylvania. Dan offers individual therapy child …
Hair Pulling Patterns: Trichotillomania
A hair pulling self-help monitoring tool to help you build awareness of your hair pulling behaviors looking at the SCAMP domains: Sensory, Cognitive, Affective, Motor, and Place.
Radical Self-Care Therapy
What is radical self-care therapy? Radical self-care is all about going beyond temporary quick fixes to our problems and finding long-lasting self-care strategies that leave us feeling nourished, energized, and hopeful. Take a self-care inventory …
Tonglen for Difficult Moments
Tonglen practice is a great way to overcome and work through difficult moments in life. Practice taking in the suffering of beings, transforming it into happiness and then sending it back out to beings!
Pillars of Well-Being
The pillars of well-being are eight areas of life where you can make changes along specific guidelines to become happier. While there are more than eight areas in your life that you could invest your …
Non-Meditation is the Best Meditation
Meditating has a lot of benefits, but it also causes much frustration. In non-meditation, we let go of striving to do anything. We just rest and let everything be as it is.
Embracing the Not-Self of Buddhism: A Path to Inner Freedom
The Buddhist concept of not-self fosters self-compassion, acceptance, and resilience, challenging fixed self-identities for inner freedom and peace.
Queer Families of Choice: Understanding Queer Communities and the Role of Chosen Family
Many queer people, especially those who have strained relationships with their family of origin, often create strong networks of friends - a chosen family, or family of choice - that provides love, support, acceptance, and …
Nawaal Amer (Associate Therapist)
Nawaal Amer (she/her) is an Associate Therapist at The Center For Growth. She meets virtually with clients in PA and offers in-person sessions monthly on Sundays at the Society Hill office in PA. She …
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for FND
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) offers a promising approach for individuals with Functional Neurological Disorder (FND).
How Can Buddhism Make Me Happy?
Hey gang! Welcome to “How Can Buddhism Make Me Happy?” We’ll outline some lessons from Buddhism that can make you happier! This won’t be a systematic exploration of the religion or its philosophy, just a
Therapy for Loneliness
Therapy for loneliness can provide a deeper understanding of ourselves, heal past wounds, and build more meaningful relationships.
Stuck in a Cycle of Pain
Have you ever felt stuck in a cycle of pain? Maybe you continue to experience unwanted thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and are worried that they will never change. Read this tip to learn more about …
Compassion-Focused Therapy: Creating a Safe Place Exercise
In this tip, we will be talking about an exercise called "Creating a Safe Place." This isn’t about going to a physical space, but rather it’s about creating imagery of a physical and emotional environment …
Solution Focused Therapy
What is Solution Focused Therapy?
Tuning Into Boundaries
This article discusses the importance of recognizing and understanding personal boundaries by monitoring your feelings and reactions in different situations. It emphasizes that negative emotions can indicate when boundaries are being violated, while positive feelings …
Learning About Boundaries
This article emphasizes the importance of boundaries in personal well-being and healthy interactions. It describes boundaries as protective walls that safeguard physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being. It provides an overview of different domains of …
Opening Relationships- Therapist’s Guide
Licensed therapist empowering couples to navigate open relationships across PA, NJ, and VA.
How to Navigate Stress as a Queer Teenager
This tip is for teenagers that identify as queer who struggle with stress. This tip helps teenagers begin to identify what stress is and how it can be different because of their status as queer.
Mindfulness Meditation for Anxiety
This tip is helpful for people dealing with chronic anxiety. This tip is also useful for people wishing to incorporate mindfulness practices into their daily lives.
Understanding Hurt Between Partners
Most people don't know their attachment style and how it shapes their relationship. Learning about attachment bonds and working with them can help.
Hack Your Nervous System: Stress Therapy
Do you ever wish you could hack your nervous system and change the way you react to stressful situations? Do you ever wonder why you might respond to stressful situations the way you do? This …
Assessing Sexual Boundaries
This article is all about assessing sexual boundaries in partnered interactions, regardless of your relationship status. It distinguishes sexual desires as what you find enjoyable and arousing in sex, from sexual boundaries, which are the …
Depression and Your Basic Needs
This tip offers suggestions for caring for basic needs like eating, personal hygiene, and getting dressed to help those dealing with depression. Explanations for the impact of depression and the relevance of external support are …
Questions to ask my pregnant partner
So, you just found out that you or your partner is pregnant! Congratulations.
As you enter this new stage of life, we created a series of questions for you and your partner …
Finding Social Support as a Queer Teenager
This article discusses how important social support is for teens that identify with the LGBTQIA+ community. It details where to look for support and how to best use it. This article is great for teens …
Communicating Sexual Boundaries
The article "Communicate Your Sexual Boundaries" discusses the complexity of identifying, expressing, and maintaining sexual boundaries in relationships. It addresses the challenges individuals face in recognizing and communicating their boundaries. It emphasizes that sexual boundaries …
Therapy Hangovers
Sometimes we may experience increased reactions to our therapy sessions. These are called therapy hangovers and can be a part of the therapeutic process. This article is here to help you understand and traverse the …
Tourettes Summary Handout
An excellent handout describing common common symptoms for people living with Tourette's Syndrome (TS_
Exploring Non-Binary Identity in Therapy: What to Expect
If you're wondering what it might be like to explore non-binary identity in therapy, this tip is for you! Perhaps you have questions like, “What should I expect? What should I be looking for in …
Accessing Gender Affirming Care as a Non-Binary Person
This tip is for non-binary individuals that are exploring gender-affirming care. This tip helps introduce people to the many options of gender affirming care that are available.
Diana Parker, MSW, LSW (Associate Therapist)
Diana Parker (she/her) is an Associate Therapist at The Center for Growth. She sees clients at the Art Museum office and Ocean City, New Jersey office. She sees clients virtually in Pennsylvania and New …
Ashlyn Karre (Intern Therapist)
Ashlyn Karre is an intern therapist at The Center for Growth from January 23, through April 24, 2025 while obtaining her Master of Arts in Clinical Counseling from Eastern University.
Professional Background
…Exposure Therapy for Social Anxiety
Many people struggle with social anxiety. It’s like having a tiny critic in your mind who will criticize and scrutinize you when you’re in social situations. It can make small things, like going to the …
Reducing Screen Time-- Why? How?
A guide for why and how to reduce time spent on your smart phone.
Sarah (Sid) Treaster, MSW, MEd, LCSW (Associate Therapist)
Sarah (Sid) Treaster (they/them) is a queer, nonbinary therapist at the Center for Growth in Providence, Rhode Island. Sid works virtually in Rhode Island, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. They provide in-person and virtual therapy …
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Why Attend a Meditation Retreat
Learn about what to expect at a meditation retreat.
Setting Boundaries as a College Student
Are you a new college student wondering how to find success in school? Are you returning to college for a new semester feeling burnt out, stressed, or overwhelmed? If so, I have one word for …
Caring for the Caretaker
Caring for the Caretaker: While On the Job: Nanny Edition Who cares for the caretaker? In this tip targeted towards nannies and others in childcare professions, we explore ways to incorporate mindfulness, boundaries, and …
Effects of Narcissistic Abuse
This tip is for individuals looking to rebuild their lives after a narcissistic or abusive relationship.
Find Yourself Again Workshop
Practicing Body Neutrality: A Path to Self-Acceptance
Practicing body neutrality, unlike body positivity, doesn't require you to love or celebrate your body's appearance. Instead, it encourages a more neutral stance—one that acknowledges your body's existence without assigning value based on its appearance …
How to Start Journaling
Journaling is a tool that many people use to catalog their thoughts, feelings, and emotions. For some people journaling just clicks, but others struggle with how to start journaling or be consistent. If you find …
A Tool for Exploring Sexuality
This article introduces those interested in exploring one's sexuality to a tool to use. This tool explores the background of someone's sexuality and gender identity using guided questions. Additionally, the genogram is a helpful tool …
Postpartum Rage
Postpartum rage can be felt by new mothers during the first year of their child's life. Postpartum rage brings feelings of anger, agitation, and helplessness.
Changing Your Name as a Trans/Nonbinary Person
The choice of changing your name as a trans/nonbinary person is a deeply personal decision for individuals seeking a name that better reflects their true identity. Names are a fundamental aspect of our identity, yet …
Understanding Yourself Sexually
This is a reflection exercise to help you understand your sexual history timeline. It includes specific questions and prompts to dig deeper into your sexual past to make sense of yourself in the present.
Confidently Saying "No"
Confidently saying "no" is a difficult word to verbalize in communicating with others. There are a host of different reasons and beliefs that get in the way in communicating these boundaries clearly especially when we …
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for FND
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an effective way to help Functional Neurologic Disorders (FND). Using techniques from CBT clients with FND can reduce their symptoms and improve their day to day functioning.
Limerence and Narcissistic Tendencies
Limerence is described as an all encompassing obsession that is centered around limerent objects. Limerence can closely resemble love, but is characterized by fantastical longing, rumination, and extreme highs and lows. People with anxious attachment …
Managing FND Symptoms: Completing a Five Areas Assessment
Getting a diagnosis of Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) can be a challenging experience, often leaving individuals feeling overwhelmed and confused about the nature of their condition. Regardless of where you find yourself on your journey …
Mental Health Therapy for Seniors
Mental Health Therapy for Seniors
Are you a senior looking for mental health therapy? Are you unsure of what happens in therapy? Do you worry the therapy is not going to equate to …
Managing Jealousy and Feeling Compersion in Non-Monogamous Relationships
Non-monogamous relationships offer individuals the opportunity to explore love, intimacy, and connection in ways that diverge from traditional monogamous norms. If you have recently opened up your monogamous relationship to include other sexual and/or romantic …
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Treating Gender Dysphoria
Gender dysphoria is a complex and deeply personal experience that affects individuals whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. Understanding this condition, its treatment options, and strategies for managing it …
Become a FND Detective
Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), a complex and often misunderstood condition. FND occurs when the brain cannot properly send and receive signals, causing a range of physical symptoms.
Equity in Relationships
The article discusses the difference between equality and equity in relationships, highlighting the need to address imbalances through understanding and redistributing responsibilities based on individual strengths and preferences, with the support of psychotherapy and couples …
Defining the Vision for Your Life
What is the vision of your life? Why does your vision for life matter? What is the point of defining what your vision for life is? Those are just a few of the many questions …
Walks In Nature During Depressive Episodes
Walks in nature during depressive episodes can help to alleviate symptoms of depression. This tip walks through the steps needed to get outdoors by using activity prompts based in mindfulness. These prompts, coupled with nature's …
Mark Sorrentino (Intern Therapist)
Mark Sorrentino (he/him) is an intern therapist at the Center for Growth. His internship runs from May 13, 2024 to May 7, 2025. He is currently working towards his master’s degree in clinical and …
Dating As A Woman with Turner Syndrome
Dating as a woman with Turner Syndrome, or showing romantic interest in someone who has the condition, may bring up a series of new thoughts and emotions. Addressing basic questions such as "What is Turner …
Navigating Turner Syndrome as an Intersex Variation
Turner Syndrome is a chromosomal condition that affects development in people assigned female at birth. It occurs when one of the X chromosomes is missing or partially missing. This condition can lead to various physical …
Emily McCluskey (Intern Therapist)
Emily McCluskey (she/her) is an intern therapist at The Center for Growth who uses Person-Centered and Cognitive Behavioral Theory in order to best serve her clients. Holistic in her approach, she also uses …
Marlaina Stuve (Associate Therapist)
My name is Marlaina Stuve M.Ed, and I have been working here at The Center for Growth since June 2024. I am passionate about supporting individuals, couples, and adults on their journey toward mental …
Anti-Oppressive Therapy with Queer Clients
This tip provides guidance for therapists who are looking for ways to adopt an anti-oppressive approach to therapy with their queer and trans clients. This tip describes the relevance of anti-oppressive therapy and articulates what …
Challenges During Pride Month: A Therapeutic Guide
While Pride month is a time of celebration, recognition, and affirmation, for many, it can also bring a unique set of challenges. From dealing with discrimination to managing mental health, these difficulties can make it …
Turner Syndrome Therapy
Turner Syndrome Therapy in Philadelphia, Ocean City, Providence, Fayetteville
Turner syndrome is a chromosomal condition that affects females, occurring when one of the X chromosomes (sex chromosomes) is missing or partially missing. This condition …
Navigating First Responder Mental Health
Being a first responder is physically, mentally, and emotionally taxing. Come explore the challenges that first responders face and learn how to recognize signs of distress in yourself and others.
First Responder Burnout
Burnout is a common condition experienced by many in helping professions. This article will explore burnout in first responders and how to recognize it, reverse it, and prevent it from happing again.
Discovering a Worthy Goal
This article provides step-by-step instructions for creating a small goals journal for those who struggle to stick to their goals due to ADHD and defeating past experiences of goal burnout. This technique helps you to …
Exploring Kinks in Your Relationship: Communication and Mutual Satisfaction
Exploring new kinks and fantasies can be an exciting and enriching journey. However, if your partner isn't kinky or hasn't shown interest in exploring these areas, it can present challenges. Here are some steps to …
Summer Body Image Anxiety
When summer rolls around, do you find yourself dreading the thought of wearing shorts and bathing suits? Do you feel anxious and experience negative body image throughout the warmer months? You are not alone. This …
How To Feel Safe in Your Body
How To Feel Safe In Your Body Feeling safe is a fundamental need for human beings. For those who do not feel safe in their bodies, emotional, physical, and cognitive symptoms may arise. A psychosomatic …
The Meaning of Life: Mental Health and Existentialism
"What is the purpose of life?" is a common question that has been asked throughout time. Varied theoretical perspectives and lenses, in addition to spiritual practice, can help to answer this question. By exploring what …
Feeling "Lost" in College
This article addresses the common emotional challenges faced by college students, such as loneliness, academic pressure, and career uncertainty, while offering practical strategies for managing these feelings. This article is especially helpful for students who …
Got That Summertime Sadness?
Seasonal affective disorder, otherwise known as SAD, is most commonly experienced throughout the Winter months. However, some of the population will experience what's known as Summer Seasonal Affective Disorder, or S-SAD. Symptoms of S-SAD, like …
People-Pleasing in the Workplace
Are you overextending yourself at work to gain approval, only to end up feeling burned out, anxious, and dissatisfied? The article explores the dangers of people-pleasing in the workplace, its impact on personal well-being and …
Solana Warner (Intern Therapist)
Solana Warner (she/they) is an intern therapist at The Center for Growth. Her internship runs from August 26th, 2024 to August 26th, 2025. Solana is currently working towards achieving a master’s degree in clinical …
Sara Saveanu (Intern Therapist)
Sara Saveanu (she/they) is an intern therapist at The Center for Growth beginning August 26th, 2024-August 2025. She is currently studying at Chestnut Hill College and is expected to receive a master's degree in …
Annarose Stewart (Intern Therapist)
Annarose Stewart (she/her/hers) will be an intern therapist at The Center for Growth from August 12th, 2024 to August 12th, 2025. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Social Work at Temple University. She uses …
Rachel Hirsch (Intern Therapist)
About Me
Rachel Hirsch (She/Her) is an intern therapist at The Center For Growth. Rachel is working towards her masters in clinical social work at Temple University. She is available from August 26th 202 …
Genderfluid Identity
The term “genderfluid” describes the experience of feeling multiple different gender identities (masculine, feminine, or nonbinary) over time – though the exact interval varies from person to person. Some genderfluid folks go through longer periods …
Jobhunting While Queer
Jobhunting while queer can be tough. Here are some tips on how to approach this often demoralizing process and take care of your mental health.
Adult Version of Pillow Fights
The adult version of pillow fighting. When was the last time you engaged in a pillow fight? Was it when your kids were little? Or maybe when you were 6 years old? Sadly, this is
Polyamory Glossary: Polyamorous Terms and Definitions
This article is a breakdown of the most frequent polyamory terms and definitions. It gives some tips and tricks for how to best use the article whether you are new to polyamory or a veteran.
Making Friends In The City
Our country is undergoing a loneliness epidemic that is disproportionately affecting young adults. This article highlights the importance of social connection for individuals' mental and physical health and community prosperity, while understanding and acknowledging barriers …
Being Queer in a Heterosexual-Presenting Relationship
Being queer in a heterosexual-presenting relationship can present a unique set of challenges. This article aims to address the common fears, questions, and uncertainties that arise, while also exploring the dynamics within both queer and …
Meeting your Metamour
This article discusses how to prepare to meet a metamour (someone who is dating your partner). It lays out some check-ins for yourself and your partner before, during, and after meeting your metamour.
Jessica Soriano (Associate Therapist)
Managing Emotional Takeovers
The article "Managing Emotional Takeovers: Strategies for Self-Preservation" discusses strategies for managing emotional takeovers by emotionally immature individuals. It defines emotional immaturity and the characteristics of emotionally immature people, as well as the impact of …
Summer's Out for School: Back To School Transition Tips for Caregivers and Kiddos
By Rachel Hirsch For caretakers and kiddos, the back-to-school season has non-stop unavoidable changes to your routine. Starting with September's back-to-school rush, next up is October's Halloween fun, followed by Thanksgiving in November, and then …
Overcoming Task Paralysis
This tip explores why a person might experience task paralysis and some strategies for overcoming task paralysis.
What is Intuitive Eating?
Intuitive eating is a powerful tool to combat the restrictive diets that dominate our lives! This article reveals how tuning into your body’s natural hunger signals can transform your relationship with food, boost your mental …
How to Start Intuitively Eating
Are you someone who has heard of intuitive eating, but has no idea how to start? (if you haven't heard of it, check out the article “What is Intuitive Eating?” before reading this one!)
Screen Time Agreement
Bisexual Isolation
Bisexual people face a very specific type of stigma that can often result in feelings of isolation. This tip identifies some of the key myths that harm this community and how to check in on …
How To Play Strip Dreidel
How To Play Strip Dreidel You know how they say that Dreidel is the all time classic family friendly game to be playing on Hanukkah? Well today I'd like to actually teach you about Strip
Expressing Negative Emotions to Loved Ones
How to Say What You Need to Say and Deepen Your Love and Your Truth In every relationship, there are disagreements. Even among the most compatible and loving partners or friends, differences in preferences will …
