Building Resilience in Youth We see childhood as a time of freedom and carelessness. However, the truth is far from this. This age offers no shield against the emotional challenges many children face, let alone learning to deal with them. Part of growing up is developing the ability to understand the feelings of others and […]

Goals & Success in Therapy It is very common when people come to therapy that there is a struggle for clients to identify their goals. Whether it is the goals of therapy or life goals in general, it is impossible to avoid being influenced by information and the people around us. However, there is a […]

Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, & Plan WOOP — Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan — is the brainchild of Gabriele Oettingen, a professor of psychology at New York University and the University of Hamburg in Germany. It is a tool for helping you move beyond simply knowing what you ought to do to increase well-being, to actually changing […]

Understanding Trauma Trauma is often misunderstood. Trauma is not only about the event. It’s how we perceive the event. Depending on what age we were, who was around us to help us navigate or cope with the emotions, how helpless we felt to change the situation, how much of ourselves and our own needs we […]