Many people deal with anger in their everyday lives. However, many people do not know how to mange this anger. The article below is from Psychology today and entitled "How to Manage and Move Beyond Anger" by Meredith Gordon Resnick who is a licensed mental health counselor. Check out the article below! https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/adoption-stories/202202/how-manage-and-move-beyond-anger

In the blog post before we talked about EDMR or Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. This is a type of psychotherapy that helps those who use it to process past situations, usually traumatic situations that the person was unable to correctly process during the time of the event. Below is another video provided to us by Sarah James a mental...[ read more ]

As new counselors begin to join renew we want to highlight their different specialties and techniques they are trying to integrate into their therapy. An up and coming form of therapy that one of our counselors have begun focusing on is EDMR. EDMR stands for Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. This technique is used in treating different forms of trauma...[ read more ]

Perfectionism is defined by very well mind as "someone who has a personality that strives for flawlessness. This is often accomplished through fixating on imperfections, trying to control situations, working hard, or being critical of the self or others." Many of us struggle with perfectionism on a daily basis and may not even be aware of this! If you identify...[ read more ]

In conjunction with our last blog post, we now know that trauma plays a major keystone in our biological makeup and predisposition to numerous medical and mental diseases. Along with this, trauma all starts with the brain. The ability or lack thereof to process a situation and what we recognize the situation as plays a major role in deciding if...[ read more ]

Trauma is something sadly many of us experience.  Though well researched in academia and talked about in the general public many people are still not aware of the adverse biological and psychological reactions from early childhood trauma. Below is a Ted Talk from Dr.Nadine Burke Harris. Dr.Harris is a pediatrician and one of the original advocates for better understanding the...[ read more ]

As the end of the month comes to a close many of us have gained new experiences and learned new things. Within the renew counseling family we have shared numerous different tools with all of you this past month. In this blog post, I will summarize some of your favorite blog posts and touch on how we will move forward...[ read more ]

In the previous blog post... Just like having healthy relationships, having healthy friendships and learning what a "healthy friendship" looks like can make all the difference when building a good support system! In this blog post you will learn what a healthy relationship looks like and why you should strive to be a good friend and find those who are...[ read more ]

Just like having healthy relationships, having healthy friendships and learning what a "healthy friendship" looks like can make all the difference when building a good support system! In this blog post you will learn what a healthy relationship looks like and why you should strive to be a good friend and find those who are also! You are comfortable A...[ read more ]

Dealing with grief in any form is something that we all deal with in our life. A variety of both healthy and unhealthy copying mechanism are usually used based on where someone is in, and their own knowledge on how to deal with grief. As a way of learning how to deal with grief I have found an amazing article...[ read more ]