Think Counseling is Weak? Here are 4 Tropes from Geekdom That Will Make You Think Again!
A lot of people put off counseling for fear of "looking weak." There is a lot of cultural baggage around mental health counseling, and...
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quinnwhiting
- Jan 19
- 8 min
3 Things We Often Get Wrong About Radical Acceptance.
Radical acceptance in therapy is often a hard idea to grasp because of three myths around the idea of "acceptance." It was a cold day in...
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quinnwhiting
- Dec 22, 2023
- 9 min
Making New Year's resolutions? Here's how therapy can help.
Making New Year's resolutions is often done with good intentions, but they rarely stick. With the changing of the year just around the...
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quinnwhiting
- Dec 8, 2023
- 5 min
Struggling with choice? How Loki Season 2 offers a great insight for mental health.
Therapy is often uncomfortable, but there is power in accepting that discomfort. Loki Season 2 shows us how.
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quinnwhiting
- Nov 20, 2023
- 8 min
Your Survival Guide for Dealing With Holiday Stress
The winter holidays are stressful. Find out how to manage your challenges over the holiday season and download a handy worksheet to help.
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quinnwhiting
- Nov 17, 2023
- 7 min
A Radically Different Take on Questioning Your Gender Identity - The Gender Freedom Model
Gender exploration is often focused on dysphoria rather than euphoria. The Gender Freedom Model offers an promising new alternative.
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quinnwhiting
- Oct 13, 2023
- 4 min
Gender Magic Book Review - A new take on gender identity exploration.
The new book Gender Magic by Rae McDaniel features a new take on exploring gender identity based on euphoria rather than dysphoria.
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quinnwhiting
- Oct 4, 2023
- 3 min
Don't Just Feel Better, Do Better
Something said in one of my first counseling classes has always stuck with me and continues to inform my work with clients. The...
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quinnwhiting
- Sep 29, 2023
- 3 min
How is Counseling Like Gardening?
Can counselors really "heal" clients? Or is it more like a gardener supporting a plant until the plant is ready to bloom?
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quinnwhiting
- Sep 16, 2023
- 3 min
There Is No Normal
Clients often ask if something about them is or isn't "normal." But is the concept of normal really helpful, or is it hurtful?
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quinnwhiting
- Aug 29, 2023
- 2 min
Trying to fix your problems? Try looking at them as challenges.
Welcome to the blog portion of this site! While I'm still getting things ironed out on the site (and learning a lot in the process), the...
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