The Heroic Journey: Unleashing your true self
You have not yet become the hero of your own journey. You have not yet overcome adversities in a personal heroic journey filled with challenges, lessons to be learned and opportunities for growth…
Why We Don't Work with Insurance Companies
Every therapist in private practice has to make a decision about whether to be an in-network provider or out-of-network provider. Trust us, this is not an easy decision. Today we’ll be pulling back the curtain to help you understand our decision making on this issue.
Understanding and Recovering from Covid-19 Anxiety
If you are experiencing long term stress, your body goes into fight, flight or freeze mode—which means you may feel like you have to either try to escape, become aggressive, or silently wait for a threat to pass…
Anxious Attachment in Romantic Relationships
People with an anxious attachment style often feel insecure and their relationships consume a large part of their emotional energy…
The Importance of Emotional Vulnerability in Relationships
One of the most powerful ways we can heal ourselves in couples therapy is to learn how to show up as our most authentic selves…
Pregnancy Loss and Isolation
While pregnancy loss is common, occurring in about 10-20% of pregnancies, people who lose a longed-for child often suffer in silence. There are many reasons why this might occur…
The Mighty Article Featuring Dr. Liz Gustafson
As people around the globe adjust to help slow the spread of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), the novel coronavirus that causes respiratory infection, there are countless ways life as we know it has been turned upside down…
Covid Pandemic Coping Skills
The outbreak of COVID-19 has quickly moved into a pandemic status, and it has been stressful and quite difficult to digest. The adjustment that everyone is facing has led to a series of losses, from social…
Understanding the Impact of Trauma on Drinking Alcohol and Smoking Weed
Experiencing a traumatic event is one of the main reasons people overuse alcohol or weed. Sometime people are unsure if their experiences count as traumatic, but a trauma is basically an intense, overwhelming emotional event…
Radical Acceptance
So many people who walk in my door are struggling to change reality. They are obsessively looking for ways to control the uncontrollable. They are trying to turn themselves into people who are invulnerable to hurt, perhaps…