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3 Common Types of Trauma and How Working with a Trauma Therapist Can Help You Heal

Trauma is defined as an emotional response to a deeply distressing or disturbing event.

Inside Therapy: What help am I looking for and how do I find a therapist?

If you have never been to therapy before, it can be so difficult to navigate the process of finding one and starting that journey. Not...

How New Year’s Resolutions Hurt You (and how to make them better)

As a Type-A personality, the start of the New Year is always enormously powerful to me. A reset button, a way to tell myself to start...

The Mending Space is now offering Group Therapy

Starting mid-November of 2022, Laura Farrell, LSW, will be facilitating groups at The Mending Space. Laura has a lot of experience as...

Checking Out: when does it make sense to put away negative thoughts and feelings?

If you have ever been in therapy, you should be well aware of the phrase ‘feel your feelings!’. A lot of us can grow up in home...

A Case For Private-Pay Therapy

As an introduction, I’d like to make clear that it I do truly understand it is a privilege to have the ability to pay out of pocket for...

Healing Trauma in a Virtual World

In a world pre-COVID, telehealth was a difficult pill to swallow for anyone—insurance companies most of all, but clients too, and the...