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.
Expanding Horizons: Thriving as a Therapist in the Gig Economy
Discover how therapists can thrive in the gig economy by exploring multiple income streams. From online therapy to freelance work, teaching, consulting, and more, this blog post explores various opportunities for therapists to diversify their income and expand their professional horizons. Explore the benefits, challenges, and types of work available to therapists seeking to enhance their financial security and professional growth in the ever-evolving landscape of the gig economy.
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.
San Diego Comic-Con 2022 Panel
Comic-Con is an annual five-day comic book, science fiction, and film convention at the San Diego Convention Center. This year, I was honored to participate in a panel focused on the fusion of fandom and food.
WonderCon 2022 Panels
WonderCon is an annual three-day comic book, science fiction, and film convention held at the Anaheim Convention Center. This year, I was honored to participate in three panels geared towards mental health, diversity, and community development from fandom.
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.
Noisy Office? Noise Cancelling Headphones Can Help
Noisy workplaces are nothing new, and their impacts are well documented. Background noise can result in increased absenteeism, communication difficulty, and increased risk of on-the-job accidents. Therefore our contributors created a helpful infographic to learn how to choose the right noise-canceling headphones to address workplace noise.
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.
What Is Intimate Partner Violence?
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Intimate Partner Violence affects nearly 12 million Americans a year. Guidance Teletherapy is sharing what Intimate Partner Violence is, how to support the survivors we know, and what survivors can do to increase safety.
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.
Therapeutic Themes From Netflix’s “World's Most Amazing Vacation Rentals”
Netflix’s series, The World’s Most Amazing Vacation Rentals, recently released its second season. The series captures the essence of the word wanderlust. Along with allowing us to live vicariously through the hosts of this travel documentary, it also has several additional therapeutic benefits, which aid in psychoeducation about travel and connection.
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.
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.