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Daniel Katz, Psy.D
Feb 133 min read
Valentine's Day got you down? Here are 4 tips to ward off the Valentine's Day blues
Valentine's Day is upon us once again, and while this holiday can be a wonderful celebration of romance, for some it can stir up some...
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Catherine Comiskey, LCSW
Oct 24, 20234 min read
The Intangible Tools of Therapy
Often, we arrive to therapy with the quest to build a toolkit or a set of skills we can call upon to better manage our lives. Many...
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Emma Barr, LPA
May 21, 20234 min read
What If I Told You Negative Emotions Are A Good Thing?
As Gloria Loring once sang in the theme song for the hit TV show The Facts of Life, "You take the good, you take the bad, You take them...
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SJ Knowlton, LPC-A
May 8, 20232 min read
Self-Awareness: Why vs. What
Self-awareness is an important part of being a healthy, functional adult. The more aware we are of our needs, what motivates us, and how...
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Catherine Comiskey, LCSW
Dec 8, 20223 min read
Women & Anger: Finding empowerment in your anger
Anger is meaningful data. It’s a feeling that deserves our attention and curiosity as it can signal to us we are being hurt, our needs...
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Catherine Comiskey, LCSW
Sep 6, 20224 min read
People-Pleasing Unpacked
People-pleasing is a need to make others find us likable. It places the emphasis of our relational encounters on what we imagine other...
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Catherine Comiskey, LCSW
Jul 2, 20223 min read
Lessons of Summer: Cultivating more play and more rest
Imagine your childhood self - you’ve been through a year of structured and demanding classes, perhaps followed by a slew of...
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info978887
Jun 22, 20222 min read
A Self Care Map, Part 1
Houston is a pretty big city. Large enough to make the top 10 in the US! So it makes sense that it can be a little hard to navigate at...
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birkhold3
Mar 1, 20223 min read
Cultivating Gratitude
You’ve probably already heard the suggestion of keeping a gratitude journal to improve your mental health. Science backs the idea- we are ha
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Dan Workman
Jan 29, 20222 min read
Therapy for Creatives, Part 16: Inspiration
When a creative is blocked, intense negative emotions may follow, leading to depression, anxiety, or behavioral acting out.
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Catherine Comiskey, LCSW
Dec 27, 20213 min read
The Healing Power of Emotions
“To live a full and connected life in the face of difficulty and even tragedy requires the capacity to feel and make use of our emotional...
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birkhold3
Dec 16, 20213 min read
The Gift of a Generous Interpretation
In the spirit of the holidays and gift-giving, I’d like to explain why the gift of a generous interpretation is a wonderful gift to give...
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Dan Workman
Nov 28, 20213 min read
Therapy for Creatives, Part 15: A Downside of ‘Going Pro’
Creative people need to be creative to have good mental health. Relying too much on external validation can cause depression and anxiety.
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birkhold3
Nov 22, 20214 min read
Self Compassion 101
Have you ever been told you need to be easier on yourself? Or that you hold yourself to impossible standards? Many of us do!
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Catherine Comiskey, LCSW
Nov 4, 20212 min read
“How do I talk about difficult things in therapy?”
Self-disclosure is an essential ingredient to psychotherapy. It just so happens that self-disclosure is also one of the most difficult and n
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Dan Workman
Oct 31, 20212 min read
Therapy for Creatives, Part 14: Creating Art vs. Doing Therapy
A creative’s inner narrative can be externalized in therapy --using the client’s process as a way to discover hidden emotions.
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Dan Workman
Sep 28, 20212 min read
Therapy for Creatives, Part 13: 'Broadcast Suffering'
A look at the phenomenon of "broadcast suffering" -- a need for our trauma to be recognized and validated by an audience on social media.
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Dan Workman
Mar 5, 20212 min read
Therapy for Creatives, Part 8: Sharpening the Saw
Taking breaks from creative work is really hard but totally necessary.
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Dan Workman
Jan 10, 20213 min read
Therapy for Creatives, Part 7: Hacking Creativity
There are times when we just get stuck. In the creative world, the phenomena has many names: writer’s block, freezing up, stage fright, etc.
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Veronica Welch
Nov 30, 20204 min read
Four Keys to Sexual Self-Care
We generally understand what is healthy for the body, mind and emotions, but sexuality is a category of its own when it comes to...
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