Marriage is a beautiful journey, but it’s not without its challenges. Communication issues, conflicts, and life transitions can test even the strongest relationships. If you and your partner are facing struggles, marriage counseling can help you work through them. It provides a safe, supportive space where you can learn valuable skills like effective communication, conflict resolution, and trust rebuilding. Whether you’re navigating a tough time or want to strengthen your bond for the future, marriage counseling can help you create a healthier, more fulfilling relationship. Learn more about the benefits of counseling and how it can support you and your partner in navigating life’s challenges together.
Do you find yourself feeling anxious, guarded, or stuck in unhealthy patterns in your relationship? Past trauma can shape the way we connect with others, making it difficult to fully trust, communicate, or feel safe. In this blog, we explore how unresolved trauma impacts relationships and how co-facilitated couples therapy—with two therapists guiding the process—can help you and your partner break free from old cycles and build a stronger, more secure connection.
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Planning a wedding is exciting, but have you thought about preparing for your marriage? Premarital counseling helps couples build a strong foundation, improve communication, and navigate challenges before they arise. Whether you're looking to deepen your connection or address important topics like finances, conflict resolution, and shared values, premarital counseling in Bryn Mawr, PA, can set you up for long-term success. Learn what to expect from the process and how our affordable counseling options can support you on this journey.
Struggling with communication, trust, or past wounds in your relationship? Co-facilitated couples therapy offers a unique approach where two therapists work together to provide balanced support, deeper insights, and practical tools for lasting change. This collaborative method helps couples navigate conflict, heal from past trauma, and build a healthier, more secure connection.
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Trauma healing is a deeply personal journey, and combining powerful therapeutic modalities like EMDR, IFS, parts work, inner child work, and somatic therapy offers a holistic approach to recovery. In this blog, we explore how these therapies work together to help you heal from past wounds, restore balance within, and create lasting transformation. Learn more about this integrative approach and how it can support your healing journey.
We all have inner voices—one that judges and belittles and one that is nurturing and up-lifting. However, for many the second inner voice often sounds like a fantasy. In fact, it feels impossible to even comprehend talking to yourself in a kind way because for most of us…the critic often always wins. Our inner voice can be a destructive force that can impact our overall mental wellbeing. This damaging voice magnifies negativity and often isn't satisfied until we are left feeling defeated and sometimes even paralyzed. So, how can we regain balance within our own system? How can we reset the inner critic and strengthen our inner coach?
We go into the New Year with the best of intentions, to make these goals actually happen. We feel excited, hopefully and even enthusiastic about the idea of working toward something new. But, for many of us, we often give up on our New Year’s resolutions or simply forget about them all together by the end of the month and revert back to our old habits. This can often make us feel shameful and guilty for not reaching the expectation that we had set out of ourselves. So, this New Year, instead of putting pressure on ourselves to make an excessive list of all of the New Year’s resolutions you feel that you have to complete, what if you threw that all out the window? What if you didn’t set resolutions?
Getting back into the swing of things can come as a relief for many after the holidays. Jumping back into their comfortable routine and leaving the holiday stress behind is what actually brings much cheer to many. For others, the financially, emotionally and mentally stressful come down from the most wonderful time of the year can bring on post-holiday blues.
You get caught up in the idea that you need to create the perfect holiday experience for yourself and for those around you. Each holiday season you set extremely high hopes that this year will *finally* be different. Yet, you often fall short of these expectations that you put on yourself. You often become overly stressed and anxious because of the added pressures of the December month. And while you had good intentions at the start of the month, you have set the stage for your inner critic to take the spotlight because you feel that you have fallen short.
The holiday season for many with an ED or in ED recovery can feel like the superbowl of negative thoughts and body image, anxiety, decreased self-esteem and even sadness. Which is why it feels impossible to try to keep your eating disorder from controlling your holiday season. It can feel easier to let the eating disorder voice win because it is so exhausting to keep your ED in check. And as exhausting as it is, you can still support yourself through the holiday season with the list of tips below.
What if ‘the most wonderful time of year’ brings nothing but holiday anxiety? What if you feel overwhelmed and stressed during this season, rather than joyous like society tells us? And what if you don’t feel or want to be that cheerful this year? Well, I am here to tell you that this is completely natural.
