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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Parenting tips on raising kind kids, include leading by example, taking time for yourself, and maybe enlisting a parent coach or a child therapist.

Standard talk-therapy often isn’t enough to stop the invasive memories or nightmares. That’s why therapists have additional modalities that are evidence-based, meaning effective and proven to decrease these painful trauma symptoms.

Maintaining your sobriety during Pride can be a challenge. Here are some tips to navigate LGBTQ Pride while in Recovery and have a great time.

Parent guilt is a real thing. Many parents feel that they aren’t good enough at parenting. But, you actually might be. Here I list 5 things that good parents do.

Children aren’t always able to express their feelings clearly, so they act them out. Child therapy can help kids overcome depression, anxiety, and the effects of ADHD or or experiences like parental divorce.

Play Therapy is the best type of counseling for children because play therapist use the child’s natural language: play. Through games, art, and creativity, play therapists engage children and help them resolve stress.

When your child comes out as gay, they are giving you new information about their identity that adjusts how you see them. This is not to say that the picture becomes better or worse – it just changes. Here are some answers I give parents when they tell me that their child is gay.

Depression is exhausting and makes you feel hopeless. But you can overcome depression. These suggestions can help you start the way out of feeling depressed. Couple these with counseling for depression. Therapy works.

How to leave the past in the past? Unresolved pain from the past can leave you feeling anxiety, depression, worry, stress, and make you feel tired and hopeless. These tips for moving forward and leave the past behind are written by a therapist at LaunchPad Counseling in Richmond Va.

Your Child’s level of healthy attachment will determine how they interact with you and the world. These signs of healthy attachment in children help you recognize if your child has healthy attachment.