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The hard truth: simply showing up for your weekly therapy sessions isn’t enough to make meaningful progress and see real change. Doing the work requires you to sit with difficult feelings, get curious about longstanding patterns, and practice the skills and techniques that you learn in sessions. Whether you’ve been…

Wondering if therapy is working? It’s not always easy to tell, especially since healing is often more gradual than dramatic. Plus, it depends on what you’re hoping to address in therapy, since learning to manage a chronic mental health condition will likely take more time than helping you navigate a…

You’ve decided to start therapy, and now someone’s asking you about your goals. Maybe it’s your therapist, maybe it’s the intake form, or maybe it’s just that voice in your head wondering what you’re hoping to get out of this. If your mind goes blank when you try to think…

Kids don’t like going to the doctor. Even when their parents promise they’ll get a lollipop at the end. They’ll often do everything in their power to refuse or stall getting their temperature taken, their height measured, and (of course) a finger pricked or arm stabbed with a needle. They…