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Cedar Tree is now IN-NETWORK with BlueCross BlueShield PPO!
Have you heard? Cedar Tree is now in-network with BlueCross Blue Shield PPO! In an effort to provide options for our clients and those who want to work with us, we’ve now made it easier to protect your family’s privacy and confidentiality. Now that we’re in-network...
How to Know if You Have Symptoms of PTSD
Many people have experienced emotional trauma and they don’t realize it. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Many of us have heard about PTSD, and we may associate it with war veterans who have returned from the battle field. Did you know that anyone can...
How To Know if Your Child Has Symptoms of Trauma
Many children have experienced emotional trauma and most parents don’t know how to identify it. According to the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, complex trauma represents the impact of children’s experience of multiple traumatic events during their...
How to Promote Emotional Balance in Your Family – Part II
As we learned in Part I, kids depend on the adults in their world to help them regulate. Which means that parents can take the lead in promoting a regulating environment in their home, in addition to modeling regulation for their kids. Here are five strategies...
When Helping Others Can Traumatize You
If you are in a helping profession, such as police work, firefighting, ministry work, or if you work in a school setting, health care field or in behavioral health, you may be at risk for developing symptoms of secondary trauma. Also, if you are a parent of a child...
Men And Their Anger
I want to talk briefly about the experience of many men that I see in therapy. Namely, that they often feel that they are only able to access one of two states of being: they can be okay, or they’re angry. Some men will go so far as to say, those are the two emotional...
Grief Wants to Move
Grief wants to move. Did you know that? Grief has this course that can’t really be anticipated or predicted, except that it desires to take you on a journey; to move you. So many of the clients we see in counseling are suffering from what we call unresolved grief, and...
When Not To Fight As A Couple
Conflict happens. No partnership exists without it. While for some, conflict is indirect, passive, or tame, for others it’s explosive, volatile, and maybe even dangerous. When disagreements arise, it can be hard to know if trying to work through the argument will be...
Facing Your Fears [video]
I provide a safe environment for pre-teens and teenagers to process life’s twists and turns so that they can remain resilient and thrive. I work with parents and their children to create a plan to answer the big life questions, to heal broken relationships, and...
3 Unhelpful Ways of Thinking that Contribute to Anxiety and Depression
Here are the 3 cognitive distortions (which is another way of saying, “ unhelpful ways of thinking”) that contribute to our anxiety and depression) that I commonly see with individuals in my private practice. The first cognitive distortion that I commonly see is...
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To heal broken relationships, nourish deep connections, and cultivate family legacies rooted in grace.
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St. Charles, IL 60174
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