by kimkramer | Dec 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Our Blog 8 Unusual Ways to get Better Therapy People often don’t know what to expect from therapy, or what is expected of them. While it is true that counselors have no real expectations of their clients beyond hoping they show up and behave like decent human beings,...
by kimkramer | Dec 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Our Blog 8 Tools to Get us Back on Track when Criticism tries to Derail Us It never fails: I’ll be going along having a nice day, feeling pretty decent about myself when out of the blue—boom! Someone sends me a terse text and I debate my entire worth as a human...
by kimkramer | Dec 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Our Blog 4 Surprising Ways we can Move Toward Happiness Right Now As the 50-year-old therapist I am today, I sometimes reflect on the 15-year-old adolescent I was when I first went to therapy. I remember feeling angry that I had to be there, and as if everyone...
by kimkramer | Dec 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Our Blog Reasons People don’t Reach Out for Help with Mental Health I am a psychotherapist and I believe in the power of talk therapy—it has, after all, saved my life. And yet, and yet, even I have hesitated in the dark hours of my own mental ill-health to reach out...
by kimkramer | Dec 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Our Blog “But He Never Laid a Hand on Me…”— Understanding Emotional Abuse Many years ago, in my 20s, I was in an abusive relationship—but it never would have occurred to me to call it that because my abuser never laid a hand on me. Many years ago, in my 20s, I was in...
