Dealing With School Stress

With most kids starting school this week, I thought it would be helpful to review a few things that can help to deal with school stress. 1. Accept Anxiety as a Good Thing Our world has done a pretty good job at making us believe that anxiety is a bad thing. Certainly, left unchecked, anxiety […]

You can control the future!

Therapy intervention of the day: If you could read your journal entry for two weeks in the future, what do you think it would say? This is a type of Narrative Therapy that can be useful for two reasons. First, it helps you understand what you want to accomplish and what your short-term values and […]

The Miracle Question

One of my favorite therapy tools I use comes from a therapy called Solution Focused Therapy (SFT). This therapy focuses on specific behaviors that, if changed, help with emotional and physical outcomes. It uses scaling as one of its major tenets. One of the interventions used to help use scaling is something called the “miracle […]