5 Tips For Finding A Good Therapist
Looking for a good counselor feels daunting. Where to begin? These tips help you navigate the journey of finding a therapist that will be a good match for you.
Should I Go To Therapy?
Why should I go to therapy? Are my concerns serious enough for counseling? A licensed professional counselor explains why it makes sense to go to therapy when your mental health is struggling.
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Therapy
What do you think when you hear the words “Counseling” or “Therapy?” Yes, therapy is tremendously beneficial. But check out these often unknown aspects of therapy, for a smoother ride in your counseling journey!
Connect With Your Kids Using Music - Tips By A Music Therapist
Music is therapeutic - and a powerful tool that can help you connect with people you love. These Music Therapist-recommended strategies will help you use music to improve relationships with your children, partner, or any loved one in your life.
Self-Abandonment: Are you doing it?
Self-abandonment is when we minimize our own desires or boundaries, to the detriment of ourselves. Tips on how to stop self-abandoning. And if you’d like a therapist’s support, we’re here for you.
Helping Your Child Survive and Thrive In School - All Year Long
Tips on helping your child survive and thrive in school. How to strategize, enlist supports, set SMART goals, and use mental health resources such as counseling or a family therapy.
Is It More Than Stress? 10 Signs to Watch
If you feel anxious and worried, or constantly tired and depressed, you may be experiencing more than regular stress. In this post, you’ll find 10 signs to know if you should take extra steps to feel better. A therapist can help you move through these, and toward a happier life.
When Does Protecting Your Kids Become Over-Parenting?
Tips for parents to avoid over-parenting, and allow children to be happier and more confident. Over-parented children are more insecure and and have lower self-esteem. These tips help parents to step back, avoid over-parenting, and allow their child to step up in confidence.
Telling Children About Divorce (Part 2)
Telling your children about the divorce is one of the hardest things you’ll do. This post is part 2 of 10 tips that will help you with advice on how to tell your kids about divorce in the most healthy and supportive way.
Telling Children About Divorce (Part 1)
Telling your children about the divorce is one of the hardest things you’ll do. These tips will help you with advice on how to tell your kids about divorce in the most healthy and supportive way.
Help I Don’t Like My Child: Launchpad Counseling featured on Daily Parent
When parents lose the connection with their children, they might feel that they don’t like their kids. Mark Loewen provides feedback on how to reestablish a strong parent-child relationship.
7 Powerful Ways to Manage Anxiety
Anxiety can be crippling and painful. These tips and advice can help you beat anxiety and feel better again. Overcoming anxiety is not easy, but it is possible. Start by managing your anxiety with these pointers.
How To Help Your Child Battle Anxiety
Tips and advice on how to help your anxious child overcome anxiety. Kids are affected by anxiety for many reasons, but there are also many thing parents can do to support their child and help them beat anxiety and feel secure again.
Parenting Isn't Easy: A Parent Coach Can Help
Parent coaching can help you tackle the most frustrating interactions with your children. Many parents are tired of the same power struggles. Parenting is a huge task. A parent coach can help!
Could Your Child Have Anxiety? Watch For These Key Signs
Childhood anxiety has an appropriate place in the lives of children, just as it does for adults. When there is real danger, your child’s body needs to activate important inner resources. But when fear and worry keep your child from friends and fun, from not wanting to leave your side, they may have anxiety.
Pride Month Events Across Virginia
All over Virginia, LGBTQ Pride events occur throughout the summer. This post includes a long list of events and places to celebrate Pride across the state, including Richmond, Roanoke, Lynchburg, Tidewater, and many more.
Could Play Therapy Benefit Your Teen?
Play Therapy for teenagers involves using games, art, and other creative outlets to help teens process their thoughts and feelings. It is our experience that teenagers enjoy their counseling sessions because they trust their therapist, who engages them according to their strengths and likes.
Let Healthy Relationships Help Your Healing Process
Our hurts did not occur in a vacuum. Most likely, they originated either from other people, or the absence of people. It makes sense then, that healing within a community can sooth our relation wounds. Community Healing is a term for finding healing by creating healthy relationships that help yo grow and heal the wounds from the past. Support your counseling process through healthy relationships.
Getting the Most out of Family Counseling
Family Therapy can help families communicate better and live with less stress. You can make Family Therapy more effective for your family, and get the most out of it, by following these steps.
How To Raise Kind Kids: 5 Tips
Parenting tips on raising kind kids, include leading by example, taking time for yourself, and maybe enlisting a parent coach or a child therapist.