Traverse Counseling & Consulting therapists discuss how to lead your children in creating a healthy relationship with technology, even during COVID! This webinar will help parents identify strategies for leading their children in creating healthy tech use family rules and guidelines.
Staying Connected in a Time of Social Distancing
A film of social awkwardness has appeared in our interactions with others, literally and figuratively shielding us by plexiglass. Our livelihood in the COVID era depends on us physically distancing from one another, but our ongoing relational needs depend on us being closely connected. Balancing physical and relational boundaries in an ordinary world takes understanding […]
What is Healthy Tech use during COVID 19
By Callie Albaugh, MA, LAMFT & Mathew Meyers, MA, LMFT In a time of quarantining in our homes with limited access to the world outside, it can be a slippery slope into unhealthy habits and routines. For many, this is a time that we easily sink into extended technology use – either as a means […]
Your Kids’ Brain on Technology
Mathew Meyers, MA, LMFT Recently I had the opportunity to learn from Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D. during an all-day intensive workshop on Anxiety in the digital age. Ms. Wehrenberg is a coach, therapist, and trainer. At Traverse Counseling & Consulting we have the opportunity to work with and serve children, teens and parents in the area […]
Your brain is unable to read this whole title without losing focus…
Mathew Meyers, MA, LMFT Did I get your attention? There has been some suggestion that the ability to focus has been decreasing in recent years. Although there is some controversy about the research on this issue, some suggest that humans have only an 8 second span of attention (shorter than that of a goldfish) without […]