Psychotherapy Blog

Tips, tools, and resources to improve your mental health

How to get better sleep

8 Tips for Better Sleep

Sleep is such an important part of both our physical and mental health. Many clients who come to therapy with mental health problems also present with sleep disturbance. It can be a vicious cycle, as sleep deprivation negatively affects our mental health, and mental health issues can make it harder to get quality sleep.

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Self-Care: Tuning in to Your Needs

While many people can get caught up in reacting to emotional difficulty, self-care takes a more proactive, preventative approach to well-being. Self-care is any deliberate activity taken to nurture part of yourself, whether that be physical, emotional, social, spiritual, etc.

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practicing healthy boundaries

Boundaries 101

Boundaries help us to protect our sense of identity and establish safety/security in our relationships. Without boundaries, we may experience burn-out and resentment, or become victim to abusive or otherwise unhealthy relationship dynamics.

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Comforting, validating, and supporting

How to Offer Validation and Support

We have all been faced with opportunities to support loved ones who are struggling in some way. Sometimes we rise to the occasion, while other times we find ourselves at a loss for what to do or say. This blog post dives into how to offer validation and support in moments of difficulty.

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Dealing with overwhelm

Redirecting Thoughts

Have you ever felt stuck in your thoughts?
Have you felt consumed by them, trapped in them, without any easy way out? These sticky thoughts are unfortunately all too common, and sometimes it’s hard to know how to escape them.

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How to process emotions

Processing Difficult Emotions (Part Two)

Tara Brach is a psychologist and author of Radical Compassion (which I definitely recommend). Her book outlines a very powerful mindfulness tool for processing difficult emotions, which I’ve found to be extremely helpful as I guide my clients through emotional experiences.

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What’s Your Communication Style?

Learning how to communicate is a crucial ingredient in developing healthy relationships built on honesty and respect. All too often, our communication style is set on auto-pilot. We mindlessly implement whatever communication methods we have been exposed to from our childhood, or have become accustomed to in later years.

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Cedar Counseling Blog Articles

4 Tips to Make Tele-therapy Work for You

Well folks, it would appear that tele-therapy is here to stay for the foreseeable future. While some therapists are opening their doors for in-person sessions, many therapists are strictly tele-therapy only with no plans to return to the office anytime soon. With that in mind, here are four tips to help make online therapy work for you!

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