When Is It Time to Get My Child Help for Mental Health Issues? It’s normal for children to have emotional ups and downs, periods of moodiness, trouble with friends, changes …
What Is Grief Counseling and How Can It Help?
Grief is a heavy, distressing feeling, yet a natural response to losing someone or something you value or love. While traditionally associated with the death of a loved one, grief …
Depression: Types, Symptoms, and Treatments
Feeling down from time to time is normal and something everyone experiences, but when feelings of hopelessness, sadness, and despair take hold and just won’t go away, depression could be …
The Dangers of Bottling Up Our Emotions
Keeping our emotions close to our chest can often feel safer, but it isn’t always the healthiest way to move through life. This approach prevents us from discussing our needs …
For Men Only – Men’s Mental Health
At A New Day Family Counseling, we understand the challenges men face today to improve their mental health. Men typically engage in fewer health-promoting behaviors, have fewer social supports, possess …
Healing Your Trauma
Two individuals are robbed at gunpoint. One experiences overwhelming helplessness and has a hard month. But by the end of that time, he has pretty much resolved and integrated the …
Family Stress Test
Stress is a natural and normal “by-product” of every family’s life. In fact, family stress can bring out the best of us: as we stretch to meet the challenges we …
How Well Are You Listening to Your Children and (Others)?
When our children come to us with a problem, we usually want to help them. So we console, interpret, advise, distract or praise. Other times, we feel we must teach …