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December 7, 2025

The Power of Living “As If”

No one can claim as much contribution to the field of modern day psychotherapy as Alfred Adler (1870-1937). He really gave us the blueprint for

Category icondepression,  family counseling,  Therapy,  Uncategorized

December 1, 2025

To Eat A Tide Pod or Use It To Do Laundry?: The Importance of Understanding What Motivates Teens 

Wasn’t 2012 a wild ride? Tik Tok challenges from that time included biting into tide pods, walking on precariously stacked milk crates, and downing

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November 24, 2025

Witnessing Each Other Through The Holidays

Be it a greeting card, meme, or kind gesture, being seen for what you are going through feels good- and depending on when it hits-  can alleviate

Category iconAttachment Based Family Therapy

November 21, 2024

Therapy For Sleep: CBT-I with Kasryn Kapp, LPC

  If you know me professionally, you know I am a tremendous advocate for good quality sleep. It should be a priority for all of us. This fall

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A screenshot of Tiffany Watt Smith's book T

October 26, 2024

Context Matters: The Book of Human Emotions

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling From Anger to Wanderlust is a collection of essays around specific emotions. This is a fun read

Category iconBooks Tag iconacedia,  anxiety,  apathy,  depression,  gen z,  passion fatigue,  The book of human emotions,  Tiffany watt smith,  youth

The cover of the book The Righteous Mind: why good people are divided by politics and religion

October 26, 2024

The Righteous Mind and Why We Can’t Discuss Politics

  As fate would have it, election season wraps up about three weeks before Thanksgiving in the United States. Annually, millions of Americans

Category iconBooks,  Uncategorized Tag iconarguments,  care,  coddling of the American mind,  discourse,  discussion,  fairness,  Johnathan Haidt,  loyalty,  moral foundations,  moral foundations theory,  politics,  purity,  the anxious generation,  the righteous mind

August 13, 2024

Six Pieces of Advice For Students and Parents Nervous About Starting School: Number Five Is Experimental!

  For school staff, mid August starts to feel like we have to bring a very large plane carrying precious cargo in for a landing.  It's exciting

Category iconBooks,  Teenage Experience,  Uncategorized Tag iconanxiety,  back to school,  mundane,  nightmares,  poverty,  school transition,  stumbling upon happiness,  transitions

July 25, 2024

Why Siblings Make The Ultimate Lie Detectors: Therapeutic Implications

About fifteen years ago, an outstanding adjunct professor started class by passing out a worksheet. Three icons were vertically placed on the paper: a

Category iconAttachment Based Family Therapy,  Books,  family counseling,  Therapy,  Uncategorized Tag iconconnection,  fighting,  high conflict families,  siblings,  the body keeps the score

July 17, 2024

The Brick: Take Aways From A Social Media Experiment On Myself

  Approximately 14 hours prior to drafting this blog post, an unbelievable moment occurred in American history. This event could serve as an

Category iconBooks,  depression,  Social Media,  Teenage Experience,  Therapy Tag iconabstinence,  anxious generation,  ditch the distractions,  self help,  self improvement,  social media,  the brick

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Todd Shirley is a teen and family counselor in Malvern and Wayne, PA. He specializes in working with teens struggling with anxiety and depression.

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