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How to Heal After Divorce: 5 Steps Toward Wholeness
Divorce can feel like an emotional earthquake—one that shakes the foundation of your identity, relationships, and future. But healing is not only possible—it’s powerful. This chapter of your life may have closed, but a new one is ready to begin. Here are five meaningful steps to help you heal and rediscover your strength after divorce:…
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Fostering Emotional Health in Autism: MFT Strategies Enhanced with ABA Insights
Emotional well-being is foundational for learning, growth, and authentic connection. This is especially true for autistic individuals navigating a world often shaped by neurotypical expectations. Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) offers relational tools that nurture empathy, communication, and trust. At the same time, Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) provides data-driven methods to teach adaptive behaviors and track…
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Embracing the Evolving Dynamics of Change
How Change Can Benefit Your Mental Health When we think about change, it can often evoke a sense of unease. For example, imagine a young child expressing anxiety to their mother, saying, “Oh no, we must move again. I don’t want to go to another new school.” This illustrates the fears many of us feel…
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Sports Therapy and the Superbowl
Superbowl LIX has been completed, with the Philadelphia Eagles beating the Kansas City Chiefs. Even though this game seemed to have been over since the first half, that did not stop the Chiefs from trying to mount a comeback in the second half. Even though, in the end, the Chiefs did not complete their comeback,…
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Whom shall I be?
Whom shall I be? I recently had a discussion with a new MHC student. They shared having been to a recent event and how moved they were by the powerful presentation of another therapist, whom they referred to as the ‘Sunshine therapist ‘. This term, they explained, symbolized a therapist who exudes warmth, positivity, and…