When You’ve Got The Transition Blues
Even if you enjoy your job and love your home life, there is something difficult about returning to work after a vacation, or to school after summer — or just…
Two Favorite Ways To Beat Burnout
With all the back and forth of expectations and effort the past two years, “burnout” has become a buzzword worthy of its overuse. Those experiencing burnout are also more likely…
Self-Worth Is Much More Than Liking What You See
By: our former AMFT, Maddy Pettit Young adulthood is a time when many enter therapy for the first time. People come in for a variety of reasons- depression, anxiety, relationship…
Posted inCovid Grief and Loss Self-Help Students
4 Takeaways From A Therapist in 2021
“The psychology of returning” is a phrase I’ve come up with the describe this chapter in the pandemic. It’s such a big topic that I even created a talk around…
Posted inAnxiety Covid Depression Relationships Self-Help Students
5 Simple Strategies for College Students
If you are on your undergraduate journey right now, you’re probably trying to have some form of a college experience during an ever-present pandemic. Whether it’s a return to familiar…
Radical Acceptance! What Is It And How To Practice It
Having lived through a pandemic, we all learned a thing or two about radical acceptance without even knowing it. It took many of us weeks to months to accept the…
Posted inHabit & Time Management Self-Help Students
Procrastination Doesn’t Have To Be Your Enemy
Hey guys, it’s midterm season. When I was in college and printing a finished paper (believe it, we used to print papers), you’d have found two things to be true…
10 things I learned in 10 Years
10 years ago this month, I opened up my private practice in a beautiful old Mediterranean house-turned-office building in Berkeley. Instead of throwing a party for my 10 year old office plant,…
Posted inDepression Parenting Self-Help Students
You Can Teach Your Kids Resilience; Here’s How and Why
I've written before about the ability to recover from setbacks, trauma, and disappointment. Resilience is not just a state of mind that some of us are born into implementing more than…
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A Better To-Do List
The whole point of a To Do List is to get an item out of our minds and onto paper. It is essentially a promise to remember to do something.…