Journal, Page 26

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September 23, 2021 · Kristi Spagnuolo

Teens in 2021: A Guide for Families Navigating the New School Year

The 2020-2021 school year was unprecedented. Millions of students around the world spent the year learning remotely, a process that disrupted peer socialization, changed learning habits, and created additional responsibilities for parents and caregivers. As students return to classrooms this fall, disagreements, challenges, fears and anxieties are natural and understandable responses to our changed environment. Where do we begin to manage these challenges? And how can families come together to help teens adjust to our new normal?

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September 22, 2021 · Kristi Spagnuolo

Understanding & Navigating Through COVID’s Lingering Effects on Couples

We experienced massive shifts in our everyday realities in a short period of time: financial challenges abounded, domestic violence rates increased, and we longed for physical interaction with distant loved ones. We also experienced longer stretches of solitude, allowing us to reflect and initiate changes. The fear we felt - and in many ways are still feeling - is causing us to relate to and communicate with our partners and children differently - sometimes for the worse. What should we know about the pandemic’s effects on couples and families moving forward? What changes should we make to remain grounded in our relationships?

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September 22, 2021 · Kristi Spagnuolo

How to Get Your Child to Attend Therapy for Teens

You’ve made it through the first steps: recognizing your teen is struggling with their mental health and broaching the topic of therapy with them. But what do you do if you’re met with resistance? Getting your teen to see a therapist can be a difficult feat, but there are additional steps you can take to help facilitate that process.

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September 20, 2021 · Kristi Spagnuolo

What Dance Movement Therapy Looks Like Online: Healing through Movement in the Virtual World

Dance movement therapy is a somatic psychotherapeutic approach to further healing and connection to the self through a deepening of conscious connection between your body and mind. Through engaging in somatic-based interventions such as meditations, body scans, somatic sensing, breath-work, movement improvisation, structured movement phrases, imagery, and movement explorations you can reach places within yourself that words can not. - Noelani Rodriguez, LCAT, RDMT

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September 14, 2021 · Kristi Spagnuolo

Managing Anxiety: Using Yoga and the Breath

Most people will experience anxiety at some point in their lives, drawing their full attention to a uniquely stressful situation. For most people, once the crisis is over, the feeling of anxiety ends as well. However, for some, anxiety can feel like a full-time emotion that leaves us feeling powerless over our thoughts and regretful of overreacting to events, whether real or perceived. So, how can yoga and the breath help?- Caroline Gomez, MA, ERYT-500, RM

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September 14, 2021 · Kristi Spagnuolo

Experiential Therapy: What Does Art Therapy Look Like & How Does it Work Online?

When you were young and first learning to navigate the world, the adults in your life most likely repeated a certain phrase to you: “Use your words, use your words.” They wanted to encourage you to formulate your thoughts into statements, to use your voice, and to advocate for yourself through the spoken language. However, in the years that have passed since learning to speak, you may have realized that your voice can often fail you when you need it most - you just can’t “use your words” to explain your emotional experience.

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September 14, 2021 · Kristi Spagnuolo

Managing Dating Anxiety When in College

College is a time of drastic change in the lives of young adults. Teens are required to begin a new life away from what they call home, with an increased sense of responsibility. Changes in social situations are to be expected as well as opposed to high school where young adults may have had a solid group of friends over several years. This time of transition may hold feelings of fear, anxiety, worry, and even grief. Grief surrounding the life they had before this time.- Prerna Menon, LCSW, SIFI, CTP

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September 14, 2021 · Kristi Spagnuolo

Being Together Whilst Living Apart: How to Sustain Long-distance Relationships

Society tells us that for a union to exist, the union must exist as one. You must live together, love together, exist together. Build a home, share a home, firmly plant your feet on the same soil as your significant other(s). So what happens when circumstances force distance? When circumstance creates a wedge between two longing hands? Does the foundation of your relationship have to crack? Is rupture destined?- Prerna Menon, LCSW, CTP, SIFI

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September 10, 2021 · Kristi Spagnuolo

What does Online Yoga Therapy Look Like & How Does it Work?

Yoga, and in particular yoga therapy, offers a refreshing counterpoint. Instead of adding more and more to our already full lives, how can we turn inwards and let go of the filters through which we see the world?

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September 10, 2021 · Kristi Spagnuolo

Interested in Art Therapy & Response Artwork?: Understanding the Clinical Process

Art Therapy is not limited to solely the rich experience of a client creating artwork in a session. Often a clinician specializing in Art Therapy will engage in the process of creating Response Artwork to express their knowledge of the client and gain a deeper understanding of their therapeutic alliance. This process enriches the therapeutic bond and allows the therapist to navigate treatment in a way that is tailor made to the clients needs.

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September 3, 2021 · Kristi Spagnuolo

An Open Letter to Moms Doing it All

Dear depleted mother,We know your life force well. Your roots dive deep into the rich earth, reaching, surging, twisting, curling, grounding the growing tree of your family. You nurture, strengthen, and stabilize. You give so much of yourself. You are overextended.- Lexi Garber, LMSW

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August 26, 2021 · Kristi Spagnuolo

Why Seeing An Out-of-network Therapist Can Actually Save You Money

You think you’ve found a therapist that’s right for you: they align with your needs and goals, have a high level of expertise and training, and, most importantly, their personality and approach make you feel seen, heard, and understood. The only problem? They’re out-of-network (OON) with your insurance. The good news is that this does not, in fact, have to be a problem at all.- Sarah Panzer, MSW

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Posts, page 26

Teens in 2021: A Guide for Families Navigating the New School Year

Understanding & Navigating Through COVID’s Lingering Effects on Couples

How to Get Your Child to Attend Therapy for Teens

What Dance Movement Therapy Looks Like Online: Healing through Movement in the Virtual World

Managing Anxiety: Using Yoga and the Breath

Experiential Therapy: What Does Art Therapy Look Like & How Does it Work Online?

Managing Dating Anxiety When in College

Being Together Whilst Living Apart: How to Sustain Long-distance Relationships

What does Online Yoga Therapy Look Like & How Does it Work?

Interested in Art Therapy & Response Artwork?: Understanding the Clinical Process

An Open Letter to Moms Doing it All

Why Seeing An Out-of-network Therapist Can Actually Save You Money

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