Traverse Counseling & Consulting
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Accommodation: Parents Avoidance Trap Anxiety is a prevalent topic in media and professional training spaces today. It’s also a fundamental part of how our nervous system is wired. In my work with teens, I often hear them say, “I just want anxiety to go away.” My response is usually, “I haven’t figured out how to […]
Filed Under: Anxiety, Parenting Tagged With: Anxiety, Child Anxiety, Parental Leadership, Teen Anxiety
If you are not an educator, you like me, do not have much of a template for parenting/teaching children how to be responsible digital citizens. Note that these skills are higher level executive functioning skills. They require practice, intentionality, and development. By that I mean, as young people age and their prefrontal cortex continues to […]
Filed Under: Parenting, Technology Tagged With: Anxiety, Digital Skills, Technology
The impact of this pandemic has shifted the everyday lives of us all. Suddenly, our daily routines are limited to the confides of our own home. It can feel as though we aren’t able to maintain our standards of living – grocery shopping, running errands, attending appointments, etc. Thankfully many therapists, including our therapists at Traverse, have implemented […]
Filed Under: COVID 19, Mental Health, Therapists Tagged With: Anxiety, COVID 19, Family Issues, Mental Health, Telehealth
By Callie Albaugh, MA, LAMFT In the midst of a global pandemic, how DO you parent your children? As parental leaders, it is your role to provide structure, guidance, and assurance for your children on any given day. Throw a global pandemic in the mix, and suddenly, the ‘mom and dad’ job took on a whole new […]
Filed Under: Anxiety, COVID 19, Parenting Tagged With: Anxiety, Coparenting, COVID 19
By Callie Albaugh, MA, LAMFT The COVID era is a consumption of unsettling and worrisome news. It can feel as though we can’t escape the constant discussion of the unfortunate state our world is in. We turn on the news, scroll through Facebook, or talk to our neighbors across the street (six feet apart, of course) and are bombarded with varying information […]
Filed Under: Anxiety, COVID 19 Tagged With: Anxiety, COVID 19
