How to Improve Clinical Documentation Practices for Neurodivergent Clinicians
Based on the information presented at TAGGS 2023, this post provides practical hacks and strategies for Neurodivergent therapists to improve the clinical documentation process. Readers will learn time-saving tips, organizational hacks, and accessibility tips.
Creating Space for The Sound of Silence
It’s hard to make a home a retreat from the daily grind, especially when the sounds of the grind surround us. Guidance Teletherapy shares some practice tips to help capture and maintain the experience of quietness.
How Selfish Behaviors Affect Romantic Relationships, Friends, and Family Ties
How selfless or altruistic are you? Enough to be considered a good person? What about enough to create lasting and fulfilling relationships, both romantically and platonically? Everything from poor listening skills to procrastinating on a Venmo payment may have detrimental ripple effects for you and your loved ones. This research study helps give a glimpse of how altruism and selfishness affect important relationships.
Restoring Balance In A Relationship After An Affair
Life for couples after an affair is rocky. The relationship is off balance. What once was joy and peace, is now hurt and uncertainty. For any couple that decides to stay together after infidelity, restoring the balance is hard. Here I share the territories in a relationship that are affected after an affair, and guidelines for solutions.
How To Find A Therapist
Accepting that you need therapy is hard. Finding a therapist, however, can be harder. For Mental Health Awareness Month, Guidance Teletherapy has put together a guide that will provide you with steps to take when finding a therapist.
10 Tips To Work From Home Successfully
Working from home can be a dream or a nightmare. New, unexpected struggles will occur that may make you wish you were back in the office. Learning skills that create a balance between your professional and personal lives is necessary for a successful telecommute. Here are our 10 tips to help you do just that.
Mental Health During a Pandemic and Its Impact on Sex
Many people are speculating what the effects of the current pandemic are on intimate relationships. The most prominent conjecture is that there will be a “baby boom” 9 months from now, as a result of couples sheltering-in-place together. My own private practice experience does not align with this prediction. Learn how mental health, well-being, and changes from the pandemic, are bringing to light the struggles relationships already face that negatively affect their sex life.
13 Stress Management Tips and Mantras
Stress: a six letter word that can wreak havoc on anyone, causing undue pain and sorrow. As a clinician who has a Certification in Stress Management, these are the thirteen common skills I teach my patients that help them change how they relate to their stress.
3 Self-Care Activities You Can Do Now
Engaging in self-care is personal. It must be tailored to your life and your needs. As long as you are choosing healthy activities that you do to enhance your own well-being, it counts! Still, it may be difficult to know where to start. Here are three self care ideas you can include in your routine today.
Embracing Virtual Connection Due To Social Distancing
In a time of social distancing, how can we make real connections to prevent feelings of dread? Through virtual connections, that’s how! I’ve gathered a list that features many ways we can find support online, and continue to feel connected with the world around us. Living in the digital age, we actually have more ways to socialize online then we realize.
Decluttering Your Mind For Spring
Spring is upon us. It’s time to clean out the house, the car, the garage, and our minds. Developing a mindset of peace, tranquility, and growth is hard to do. Practicing these skills to declutter your mind will help you find your inner spark of joy.
Female Empowerment And The Inner Circle
Traditionally, women were taught to be competitive with one another, especially in the workplace, as there were and are so few jobs available to us at the top. Studies now find that women benefit from close female contacts they consider to be their inner circle, something their male counterparts do not. This International Women’s Day, learn how to build and foster your female-dominated inner circle.
Teaching Your Inner Critic Self-Compassion
Growing up we all develop an inner critic, a strong guiding voice meant to protect us from harm. Now, as adults, that inner critic is harsh and unmotivating. It tells us we aren’t worthy. That is because the inner critic has not learned self-compassion. I’ll provide you with 10 strategies to learn in order to teach your inner critic self-compassion.
Healthy Rituals to Celebrate Valentine’s Day
Relationships need different affirmations to flourish and grow. So, here are the five types of rituals that can be adopted to strengthen the bonds between significant others on Valentine’s Day.