How Can I Help My ADHD Child?
Children with ADHD are not just a set of problems that need to be solved. They bring a set of unique strengths that are often undervalued, especially during the elementary and high school years, where sitting still and listening are the expectations.
Creating Connection, Confidence, and Growth: Supporting Children and Teens with Autism Through Therapy
Over the years, I have learned that effective therapy begins with something simple but incredibly important: connection.
2 Major Benefits of Journaling
The practice of journaling has a variety of benefits that can help you to heal as well as to achieve your goals. Two important goals that journaling can provide are: helping you to clarify your goals, and improving connection between the left and right side of your brain.
What Calls You? 5 Tips For Finding “Who You Are”
I want to use this blog as a way to challenge male stereotypes, “man codes”, etc. and what better way to do that than to breakdown a children’s “princess” movie from a male, psychological perspective.
Man-Up: 5 Tips For Becoming a More Emotionally-Engaged Father
What’s the point of being an emotionally-engaged father? Isn’t it just a lot of girly stuff? Why can’t I just be provider and disciplinarian while their mother deals with the emotions?
The Emotionally-Present Father
Fathers today are expected to be more emotionally involved in their kid’s lives than ever before. Yet many of us find this to be new, uncharted terrain, quite different from the fathering we experienced as children.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a pretty big buzzword in therapy today but what does it really mean?
The Need for Adventure
Men need adventure. Adventure comes in many forms but it is in the male DNA to crave it.