Have you ever felt judged by another entrepreneur? Maybe it was a therapist in your town charging a fee that felt unreasonably high—or someone offering a sliding scale so low you [...]
Safety, as we commonly speak of it, feels like something solid—something we can find, build, or secure. But what if safety isn’t a place or even a state… but a perception? [...]
As a child, I loved to play teacher. I had my imaginary students, my makeshift classroom, and a deep love of pretending to lead and explain things. But somehow, as I [...]
There’s a dissonance that many people experience when it comes to money and service. It's this unspoken tension between wanting to help others and the discomfort that can arise from receiving [...]
You’ve likely heard the phrase: “Just be yourself.” Every time I hear it, I chuckle a little—as if it’s that easy. In the Business of Therapy course, I teach the concept [...]
Poetry has long been recognized as a medium for self-expression, reflection, and healing. But have you ever considered its role in play therapy? Just as play offers a space for children [...]
Play therapists accept that "Play is the child's language... toys are the child's words" (Landreth, 2012). Somatic approaches to play therapy reveal what is held below the toys and the symbolic tale: [...]
In therapeutic work with families, we often focus on individuals’ nervous systems—whether it’s the child’s, the caregiver’s, or even each family member separately. However, there’s another layer to family dynamics worth [...]
In the world of mental health, change is often met with resistance. Lisa joins Liliana Baylon, LMFT-S, RPT-S and Maria Laquerre-Diego, LMFT-S, RPT-S for an episode of A Hero’s Welcome podcast [...]
Albert Einstein famously said, “We can’t solve problems by using the same thinking we used when we created them.” Yet, often, we find ourselves stuck in repetitive patterns and ways of [...]