Mental health has been cast into the limelight over recent years as something everyone needs to spend more time prioritizing. Your mental health can dictate how you interact with your world, how your relationships thrive or fail, and the course of your physical health.

Adolescence is a fun and exciting time. It’s a time to learn new things, develop an identity, and take steps towards adulthood while still staking claims to youthful years. As fun as it can be, there are also many challenges that arise during this time.

ADHD and depression are not commonly used in the same conversation, let alone the same sentence. They are two very different conditions, after all.

Life is going to be filled with ups and downs. We can’t truly feel and appreciate the good times without going through some bad times. 

Dialectical behavior therapy, also known as DBT, was a resource developed by psychologist Dr. Marsha Linehan in the 70s. It may not be as commonly known and understood as other methods, but still has effectiveness nonetheless. 

Day to day life is filled with stressors that can become triggering for anxiety. The hustle and bustle of work life. Balancing work with personal life.

Couples therapy can carry a bad reputation. There’s a stigma that if a couple needs couples therapy, it must mean their relationship is struggling or on the verge of failure. Happy couples don't fight... right? 

Divorce is a journey that no one has on their relationship bucket list. It’s a complex process and one that comes with significant life changes. 

Communication is a key element in any type of healthy relationship. Those in successful relationships will often say how essential communication is. This ideal holds equally true for the family relationship. 

The fact that you’re entering into a blended family is something worth celebrating. You’ve met someone new that you’re choosing to spend your life with. This decision wasn’t easy given there are children involved. 

The picture-perfect family ideal lives in everyone’s mind. We all have our own version of what the white picket fence looks like.

The decision to combine families rarely comes easy. When you have children with a previous partner, there’s an inherent need to be cautious with their emotions moving forward.

The time from your child being a baby to becoming a teenager can feel like it goes by in the blink of an eye. First, they're in diapers. The next thing you know, they’re graduating from high school.

No adults begin a partnership thinking that it will end in divorce. Happily ever after doesn’t always account for changes along the way or a shift in dynamics that no longer work effectively.

When you think of depression, usually the first thoughts that come to mind are sadness and that loss of interest that interrupts daily life. With depression, however, that is only the tip of the iceberg. It’s a mood disorder with an array of symptoms and presentations.

Boundaries are a pretty simple concept, but one that doesn’t get talked about often enough. Most people struggle with realizing when they should set boundaries, how to set boundaries, and how to enforce them. 

For many parents with children who have ADHD, there’s a belief that they’ll just grow out of it. As children transition into adolescence and teen years, their symptoms may become more subtle or shift into different variations. 

Just like all the generations before, this one has its own unique challenges that they’re being faced with. As many of these factors and challenges hit earlier and more severely, this generation is experiencing anxiety at much higher rates.

The foundation for any healthy relationship is effective communication. As a parent, you probably know this importance.  Your teen, however, may not fully understand this nor feel comfortable having open communication the way you would like.

Millennials have faced a unique hurdle in that they’re carrying more debt, earning less, and living with less social status than their ancestors. At the top of the challenges list is money. But why is this generation struggling so hard?