Member Spotlight: Stacey Inal, LMFT
Meet Stacey Inal, LMFT, a licensed therapist and women’s career coach. Using EMDR and Somatic Experiencing to help clients work through the struggles in their personal and professional lives. Check out her spotlight to learn more about her practice!
Harnessing the Renewed Energy of Spring
Spring is here, and with it comes renewed energy and motivation! Check out our latest blog post for ideas on harnessing this energy and making positive changes in your life.
Earth Day: How to Celebrate and Take Action
Earth Day is a reminder of the importance of environmental protection. Learn about climate anxiety, ways to participate, books to educate, and geek characters promoting environmentalism in our latest blog post.
Member Spotlight: Jessica Medina, LMFT
Meet Jessica Medina, LMFT, a licensed therapist and advocate for integrating geek culture into therapy. Using board games and video games, she engages clients of all ages in conversation about difficult topics. Check out her spotlight to learn more about her practice!
Understanding and Processing Grief Using Geeky Examples
Losing someone or something important to us can be incredibly difficult. As a geek, you might find it helpful to relate your grief to your experiences of loss with your passions and fandoms. This blog post aims to highlight ways to process grief using geeky experiences.
Emotional Regulation for Geeks: 5 Geeky Interventions to Manage Your Emotions
Emotional regulation is an important skill for anyone. Geeks can harness the power of their favorite pop culture references to help them regulate their emotions. Join us as we explore five geeky interventions that can help you regulate your emotions and find peace during life's challenges.
Supporting Someone Who is Grieving: Tips and Advice
Grief is a deeply personal journey; supporting someone through it can be challenging. By showing empathy, actively listening, and providing practical help, you can support your loved one in navigating this difficult time. Learn some practice steps to take in providing support to a loved one who has suffered a loss.
How To Self-Care When The Energy Bar Is Low
Just as we replenish our mana in our favorite games, it's important to replenish our spoons irl. So what do we do on those low-energy days? Read along to find out.
Celebrating Women's History Month
It’s time to celebrate women's achievements and struggles this Women's History Month! We provide a variety of ways to fully embrace this month, from supporting women-owned businesses, volunteering for women's organizations, and even finding ways to honor the women in your life. We also give a list of books and character recommendations that embody powerful women and highlight women’s struggles.
Top 5 Trending Books for Neurodivergent Individuals Processing Childhood Trauma
Processing childhood trauma can be a challenging and complex experience, especially for neurodivergent individuals. This post provides Neurodivergent readers with a list of the top five trending books to read when processing childhood trauma.
The Benefits of Emotional Support Animals and Their Role in Addressing Mental Health Disabilities
Discover the profound impact of Emotional Support Animals (ESAs) on mental health. Learn how they provide comfort, reduce stress, and foster social engagement. At Guidance Teletherapy, our clinicians conduct ESA assessments, establishing the vital nexus between mental health disabilities and ESAs. Reach out to explore the potential benefits of having an ESA in your life.
5 Strategies From A Friendship Expert On Making Adult
Making friendship can be hard. As an adult, it’s even trickier. Here are 5 strategies from a Friendship Expert that can be implemented to start you on your goal of cultivating new meaningful bonds.
Nurture A Calm Mindset
The action of nurturing is providing care and attention to something so it can grow or develop. Often we find ourselves nurturing a cluttered mind, inadvertently giving voice to the parts of our minds that we wish to quiet. Here are journaling prompts and mindfulness exercises meant to quiet and unpack this heavy load, and nurture a calm mindset.
Why Teletherapy Works for Healing Trauma
Undergoing traumatic experiences can happen to anyone and healing from it can be a very difficult journey. Thankfully, teletherapy is there to foster a safe space, give personalized care, and provide privacy for trauma victims to cope and find the road to recovery.
Building A Relationship With Nature
Our modern society's view of nature is that it is separate from us. This has increased feelings of disconnection and isolation. Clinicians are using nature-based interventions to increase the bond their clients have with nature.
Connecting With Your Gamer Child
Relationship building is an important part of being a caregiver, and what better way than by meeting your gamer child where they are at: gaming. Using the therapeutic powers of play, we provide you with 4 actionable steps to help you build a relationship with your gamer child.
Emotional Intelligence Activity Using Inside Out
Building this skill-set of emotional intelligence is important for both children and adults. Individuals successful at learning and understanding emotional intelligence are able to build relationships, reduce stress for themselves and team members, and understand how to discuss the conflict. This guided prompt for the Pixar movie, Inside Out, will help therapist clients’ or caregivers and their children learn to foster their emotional intelligence.
Self-Care Check-In Activity
Self-care is an action based on love towards the self. By caring for ourselves unapologetically, we get into a deeper level of self-love and become a master of our own lives. Therefore, it’s important to routinely check-in to see if we have neglected our self-care.
Using Animal Crossing for the Grieving Process
Animal Crossing players are using the open-ended design of the game to create beautiful gardens, altars, or memorial areas for loved ones, pets, and celebrities who have passed. This game offers a lot of healing experiences for those grieving.