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January 2025

Harnessing Art Therapy to Build Resilience: Exploring Attachment, Therapeutic

2025-01-14T17:45:35-05:00

  How Can Art Therapy and Parenting Improve Attachment and Self-Trust in Children? Attachment styles, as explored in psychological literature, significantly influence how we form and maintain relationships in adulthood. Books like Attached offer accessible insights into three primary attachment styles - secure, anxious, and avoidant - helping readers understand the root causes of these [...]

Harnessing Art Therapy to Build Resilience: Exploring Attachment, Therapeutic2025-01-14T17:45:35-05:00

October 2024

How Are PTSD and ADHD Connected in Pediatric Mental Health: Exploring Their Relationship and the Respective Therapeutic Interventions

2024-10-02T21:05:16-04:00

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are two important medical conditions that warrant significant public awareness. With the right treatment and social support, individuals often experience notable improvements in their symptoms and overall quality of life. In this blog, we will concentrate on pediatric mental health and child development. We’ll begin [...]

How Are PTSD and ADHD Connected in Pediatric Mental Health: Exploring Their Relationship and the Respective Therapeutic Interventions2024-10-02T21:05:16-04:00

December 2022

June 2022

How can art therapy heal trauma?

2022-06-23T14:45:45-04:00

Art therapy and Trauma-informed art therapy Art therapy is a combination of psychological approaches and art to address psychological, psycho-social, emotional, and behavioral issues. The goal of art therapy sessions is often to improve the individual’s overall well-being and reduce the negative symptoms of disorders. According to the American Art Therapy Association, “art therapy is [...]

How can art therapy heal trauma?2022-06-23T14:45:45-04:00

April 2020

What does childhood anxiety predict?

2020-04-28T15:00:12-04:00

The negative impacts of childhood anxiety on adolescent and adult mental health have been studied by numerous researchers. Many child and adolescent therapists agree that childhood anxiety, if not treated, negatively impacts individuals later on in life. We have heard from many of our teenage clients that they used to feel this way [anxious, stressed, [...]

What does childhood anxiety predict?2020-04-28T15:00:12-04:00

February 2020

Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy for College and University Students

2022-07-18T11:20:20-04:00

  Students experience a high level of stress during the course of their studies. Long (and never ending) assignments, double-exams in one day, numerous chapters to read, and preparation for oral presentation can all be stressful. High levels of stress have been identified to have negative impact on students’ psychological and physical well-being and interfere [...]

Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy for College and University Students2022-07-18T11:20:20-04:00

April 2019

Training Parents for Anxiety disorders!

2022-11-03T16:24:03-04:00

With the rapid increase of child and adolescent cases of anxiety, parents are scrambling trying to help their children from falling deeper. Some of the most widely used methods of coping with anxiety are cognitive behavioral therapy and art therapy as well as common medications. Although there is evidence that both approaches work, only half [...]

Training Parents for Anxiety disorders!2022-11-03T16:24:03-04:00

February 2019

Co-Parenting: the problem of many generations!

2019-02-06T21:14:02-05:00

In the past, marriage and starting a family were some goals that people strived towards because of societal expectations. Today, there has been a large shift away from marriage to common-law relationships and divorce rates have increased. With divorce, parents now need to learn a skill that they didn’t think they would have to: co-parenting. [...]

Co-Parenting: the problem of many generations!2019-02-06T21:14:02-05:00

January 2019

ADHD and Student Life!

2019-01-21T11:36:13-05:00

To be stressed out and feel that there is never enough time to do all the assignments and readings, not missing classes, and maintain a good enough average are all normal parts of a university student’s life. But when lack of time management and organizational skills are added to this combination, it sometimes feels impossible [...]

ADHD and Student Life!2019-01-21T11:36:13-05:00

February 2018

Is it anger?

2018-02-11T23:11:16-05:00

  Anger is a common and universal emotion, which is often referred to as a secondary emotion, because it serves to protect us from other vulnerable feelings. Clinicians and researchers believe that anger covers a primary emotion such as sadness, fear, or anxiety. Our behavioral therapists also believe that children and adolescents with anger issues [...]

Is it anger?2018-02-11T23:11:16-05:00
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