Health and Healing Therapy Blog
Articles written by Health and Healing Therapy therapists
12 Date Night Ideas to Celebrate Valentine’s Day in and around the Bartlett, Illinois area
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and it’s time to plan a date night with your partner! Researcher and Creator of the Marriage Therapy and Couples Counseling Approach called the Gottman Method, Dr. John Gottman states “Successful long-term relationships are...
Coping with Anxiety as School Resumes
Now that the holiday season has come to a close, the beginning of another school semester begins. Each new semester can bring along with it a lot of fear and worry for anxious teens. There are new classes to attend, new teachers to meet, and new classmates to...
Ways To Start Practicing Anti-Racism
Ibram X. Kendi once said “The opposite of racist is not ‘not racist.’ It is ‘anti-racist.’”” Within the pages of his book, How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram further explains that being anti-racist involves confronting racial inequities and locates the root of problems in...
Passive Social Media Usage and Ways to Combat It
At times, it feels like we have access to entire worlds at our fingertips -- all through the use of our smartphones. Our phones have fantastic capabilities, allowing us to document important moments through photos, navigate our way around a new town, or make dinner...
How do I know if I need therapy, intensive treatment, or if I should go to the hospital?
It's important to be an educated consumer of mental health care and to know what is available to you when you need support, help, and care. When a person has a fever, pain, or notices a change within their body, they know to visit the doctor. When someone breaks a...
Therapist Spotlight: Colleen Koncilja LCSW, CADC, ICGC-II, BACC
We at Health and Healing Therapy want to give you the opportunity to get to know our therapists, what their clients struggle with, how they help, and who they are. We believe that connection and comfort with your therapist is vital to growth and healing, so we hope...
Therapist Spotlight with Reshma Lagomarcino LCPC, RYT
We at Health and Healing Therapy want to give you the opportunity to get to know our therapists, what their clients struggle with, how they help, and who they are. We believe that connection and comfort with your therapist is vital to growth and healing, so we hope...
25 Tips to Help You and Your Child not only Survive but Thrive at Remote Learning
While most things this year in 2020 have changed dramatically for parents, how remote or hybrid school looks, may be one of the changes that is more prevalent. Most kids and teens are doing online learning, and families not only have to navigate every family member...
The Mindful Way Workbook: An 8-Week Program to Free Yourself from Depression and Emotional Distress
A book recommendation from therapist Rae Magnani LCPC, RYT I’ve used this workbook with my clients as a tool many times, and there are skills and exercises that could be returned to as needed by the reader for ongoing use in therapy or afterwards The Mindful Way...
You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero
A book recommendation from therapist Megan Kolecke LCPC This is your "get out of a rut free” card! It is an easy and inviting read to spark your brain into action. Jen's spicy humor is a great tool to gain perspective regarding ourselves and our environment - how...
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