Family Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. In a recent blog post — How To Spot A Narcissist — we talked about personality traits that might indicate a person was a bit of a narcissist. We focused mostly on identifying the...
Helping Kids Transition Back To “Normal”
Family Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. For most adults, handling the pandemic’s rules and regulations and changed lifestyle has been stressful, to put it mildly. But at least adults generally understand what a virus...
When Bad News Rocks Your Kids’ World
Family Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. You don’t have to search the news very hard to find some events that are outright shocking. In fact, if you have a news channel tuned in on the TV or a newspaper lying on the...
What’s Up With Gen Z?
Family Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. Gen Z is stressed out. That’s not just an opinion or casual observation. According to the American Psychological Association (APA) Stress in America survey, more than one-third...
Goodbye Quarantine – Hello Social Awkwardness
Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. It’s not something most people probably thought about at the beginning of the pandemic or during the subsequent quarantine and lockdown measures. We're talking about social...
Getting Back To Normal? Not So Fast.
Family Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. For the last several months the idea of getting back to normal has been like a tantalizing dream. But as more and more people became vaccinated that dream has steadily...
Healthy Ways To Manage Stress – For Your Kids’ Sake
Family Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. You may not often think of your family as such, but it is actually an intricate social system. Naturally, there are both positives and negatives that go along with the system....
Grieving In The Age Of Covid
Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. When people think of grieving, they often picture someone who has lost a loved one. Mourning someone who has died is certainly one type of grieving. Also, if someone has a...
Sleepless Nights? There Are Simple, Effective Ways To Cope
Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. It’s been virtually a year to the day since America and, indeed, the whole world began reacting to the pandemic. Problems associated with lockdowns, social distancing and all...
Communicating With Your Teens – A Hidden Opportunity
Family Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. The downsides to the pandemic — and there have been many — are widely talked about. But are there also opportunities hidden in our response to life during the last year? One...