by Brittany Lutren | Apr 10, 2023 | Anxiety Therapy
This Is How Anxiety Affects Your Brain Anxiety is one of the most common mental health struggles across the globe. We often tend to think of it as an intangible thing, however, anxiety has concrete physical effects. On top of physical symptoms like a racing heart,...
by Brittany Lutren | Mar 16, 2023 | Depression Therapy
Why Is Depression More Common in Women? Compared to men, women are often seen as being emotional. They’re the ones depicted in television shows, movies, and comic books as needing to be saved from a prince or a superhero. In reality, women have come a long way from...
by Brittany Lutren | Mar 3, 2023 | Couples Therapy
How to Ask for More Personal Space in Your Relationship When you first start dating someone, it can be easy to want to talk to one another as much as you can throughout the day and hang out whenever you’re able to. But even if you greatly enjoy your partner’s company,...
by Brittany Lutren | Feb 22, 2023 | Couples Therapy
What Does Effective Family Communication Look Like? You and your partner have to juggle home life, family life, your careers, your children, school, extracurricular activities, and more. On top of that, you each have your own personality, wants, needs, beliefs,...
by Brittany Lutren | Feb 1, 2023 | Couples Therapy
Is It Bad If My Partner and I Fight During Therapy? Everything seems to turn into a fight lately. Coming home from work late. Dishes in the sink. Not picking up something from the store. Misunderstanding something that was said the day before. Forgetting about an...
by Brittany Lutren | Jan 16, 2023 | Anxiety Therapy
What’s the Difference Between CBT and DBT? The world of therapy is filled with a wide range of different acronyms to describe different disorders, as well as the treatment options for those disorders. CBT, DBT, OCD, PTSD, and BPD. These are just a few of the different...
by Brittany Lutren | Jan 2, 2023 | Depression Therapy
Why Does Grief Come in Waves? Picture yourself on a beach. The sun feels warm. The sand is cool against your bare feet. You watch as the ocean waves build and crash on the sand in front of you. It’s calming, peaceful, and tranquil. Now, imagine yourself staring out of...
by Brittany Lutren | Dec 19, 2022 | Anxiety Therapy, EMDR Therapy, EMDR/trauma therapy
Can EMDR work for anxiety? You thought you could handle it. You assumed if you gave it a little bit of time it would pass. But here you are, days, weeks, or months later, and you still feel the same way. You’re not sure what to do about it. It’s starting to creep into...
by Brittany Lutren | Dec 5, 2022 | Anxiety Therapy
4 Tips for Calming Nighttime Anxiety You’re trying to get comfortable. You’re tossing and turning. You can seem to escape the racing thoughts that fill your head. At this point, you don’t even know if you haven’t gone to bed at all or if you just keep waking up...
by Brittany Lutren | Nov 27, 2022 | Anxiety Therapy
Here’s What to Expect From Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy No matter if you’re completely new to therapy or your therapist recommended a treatment option for you, you’ve probably heard of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, before. Trying something new can make you...
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