Amber Reed Amber Reed

What is PCIT? 

PCIT or Parent-Child Interaction Therapy is an evidenced-based treatment for young children with behavioral problems and their parents or caregivers. PCIT focuses on promoting positive parent-child relationships and teaching parents effective skills to manage their child’s behavior. 

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Dariah Wixon Amber Reed Dariah Wixon Amber Reed

The Power of Connection

Many times, we think of connection as the standard: you + me. That’s wrong. Connection is so much more than two people, as connection can be seen physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually (to name a few).

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Amber Reed Amber Reed

Creating a Therapeutic Space For Online Therapy

As a therapist, I work to build a therapeutic space for clients to come into. I focus everything from the color of the paint and carpet, to the comfort of the furniture, to even where to place pictures and clocks. Everything in the room has a purpose to help clients feel comfortable and to have the best session possible. However, that becomes more difficult with online therapy.

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Dariah Wixon Amber Reed Dariah Wixon Amber Reed

A New Normal

COVID-19, also known as Coronavirus, has been the toughest battle we’ve ever faced. Its global reach has created unparalleled levels of stress, anxiety, and hardships. At some point Coronavirus will end, and life will go back to “normal.” But what exactly is normal?

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Penny Howard Amber Reed Penny Howard Amber Reed

Love in the Time of Lockdown

If you’re a couple making it happily through this quarantine together, hats off! If you’re a couple in conflict, gloves off may be more like it. All of this time at home can cause friction and shine a bright light on chronic issues. No fun, right? Yesterday’s small problems can start looking like big ones. It’s hard to be so confined for so long, and nobody wants to end up as relationship roadkill.

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Amber Reed Amber Reed

Rewiring the Traumatized, Triune (3 Part) Brain during this pandemic 

We are feeling trapped! Big cats pace when they are feeling stressed, we, as humans have lost our freedom of choice and movement and we are feeling stressed and trapped. What do animals do when they feel they are trapped? FIGHT for survival! How do you, as a person, feeling trapped in your home show your stress?

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Dariah Wixon Amber Reed Dariah Wixon Amber Reed

The Self-Love Club

If learning to love yourself is the journey, then feeling self-love is the destination. Self-love is the epitome of self-care, and we deserve to love ourselves as much as we love others.  

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Christy Lanterman Amber Reed Christy Lanterman Amber Reed

A Small Change that Can Have a Big Impact on Your Relationship 

One of the most surprising findings relationship researcher John Gottman found, was that long-lasting intimacy and trust was not based on the depth and breadth of conversations couples had. Instead it was the couple’s willingness to respond to each other’s bids for connection. It didn’t matter the topic or context, it was the availability and intentionality to respond to a partner’s bid, no matter how trivial, that kept the spark and closeness.

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Robin Kluttz Amber Reed Robin Kluttz Amber Reed

Emotional Identification: Why It's Just as Important for Adults 

To be able to connect our inner experience with our body’s physical sensations, label what the blend of this is, and respond effectively is one of the most powerful skills any individual can learn, I believe. On the other hand, it may be one of the rarest and hardest skills that many of us have never learned. This is called emotional identification and expression. 

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Kyle McClure Amber Reed Kyle McClure Amber Reed

Beauty is Asymmetrical

I have found myself recently thinking about a discussion I had with someone years ago now. The person was talking about taking walks with their significant other. At the trailhead where they took most of these walks was an old tall and twisted tree. The tree was very striking and they had a great amount of love for this tree. This seemed odd to the person, who questioned why they would be struck by this tree that was so strange looking. In describing the tree, the person talked about how the tree had the scars of life on it.

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Penny Howard Amber Reed Penny Howard Amber Reed

The 2020 Twist

Well, we’re three months into a new decade with our undies in a twist. Coronovirus this, coronavirus that…shops and businesses closing…toilet paper scramble in full swing. Beyond cleaning out drawers and scouring Netflix, many of us find ourselves feeling isolated, shut off, and alone with swirling thoughts, some of them pretty dark. If tangled thoughts keep you awake at night, have you on edge, cause headaches, trigger anxiety

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Tricia Smith, Resolve Amber Reed Tricia Smith, Resolve Amber Reed

Connecting While Social Distancing

Right now we’re hearing a lot about social distancing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) official definition of social distancing is “remaining out of congregate settings, avoiding mass gathering, and maintaining distance (approximately 6 feet or 2 meters) from others when possible.

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