Supporting Your Child Through the Coming Out Process – Part 2: Creating a Safe Space

Coming out is a significant and often challenging moment for LGBTQ+ individuals. As a parent, creating a safe and supportive environment for your child to come out can make a world of difference. Here are some steps to help you foster a space where your child feels comfortable and accepted.

Re-Sourcing Group

Community Support for All – Initial Session at No Cost for Those Impacted by Mountain Fires

Navigating the Aftermath

The Mountain fire has created considerable difficulties for the local community, affecting residents both physically and emotionally. This blog seeks to offer supportive guidance for nurturing your well-being, suggestions for how to assist those around you, and a compilation of resources accessible to Ventura County.

Supporting Your Child Through the Coming Out Process

The journey of coming out is a deeply personal and often challenging experience for many LGBTQ+ individuals. As a parent, understanding this process can help you provide the support and love your child needs. Here’s a guide to help you navigate this important time.

Election Year 2024

While engaging in the democratic process is crucial, managing the impact of these events on your mental health and personal relationships is equally important. Here are some strategies to help you navigate these turbulent times while maintaining your well-being and harmony with those around you.

Autumn Adjustments

As the shift from summer to fall and back to school brings renewal, it also often brings stress and exhaustion. It’s important to acknowledge and address these feelings to ensure a smoother start to the school year. As a mental health therapist, I’d like to offer some strategies to help both students and parents manage this time more easily.

6 Steps to Destress Your summer Travel

If you have the opportunity to get out of the house and get away this summer, hopefully, it is a time to rest, relax and refresh.  But inflation, airline cancellations, and soaring fuel costs have the potential to heap more anxiety on us just when we were looking forward to a break from the stress of life! We have […]

Meet Our Newest Clinicians

Lillian Channing, MA, Tina Narang, MA and Kelly Spondello, LMFT bring an impressive array of education and experience to our team and we are excited to introduce them to you.

November Blues

Here we are, already at the end of November 2021. The excitement and thrills of the Halloween season are over, and the week preceding the start of the big end-of-year holidays is among us. For many, this is a time of warmth and comfort, celebration and get-togethers, yet for many others, this is a time […]

4 Tips to Get through a Stressful Time and Return to What Feels Better.

1 Our brains and bodies are designed to manage stress and even trauma and be able to recover and heal if given adequate support. That support is both external- good self-care, food, sleep, working on something productive, playing, connecting with others, and also internal- talking to yourself like you would to someone you care about, […]