5 Tips to Help You Balance Self-Care With Being An Informed Citizen
If it seems like you can’t turn on the news without seeing something awful, you aren’t alone. Most news outlets, are businesses after all, which means that they count on …
Coping 101: A Guide To Coping Mechanisms
When something stressful or unexpected happens in your life, how do you handle it? Does your one glass of wine after work turn into three? Or, do you find yourself …
Suffering In Silence: How ADHD Affects Girls
When it comes to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, most of what you read in the news favors the idea that the diagnosis is being overused, and that kids …
Creative Ways To Keep Your Children Learning This Summer
It’s hard to believe the school year is almost over and summer is approaching so quickly! If you are a parent, and your children attend schools on the traditional schedule, …
Teaching Emotional Agility to Teens
For some people, the term “agility,” brings up images of border collies jumping through hoops, but for psychologists, the word conjures up a host of skills and abilities that can …
Happiness Is Contagious: The Importance of Parental Modeling
Have you ever looked at your child as she was slamming her bedroom door, and felt a tinge of familiarity? Not familiarity in the sense that you are family, but …
Mind Over Mood: How We Help Children With Anxiety and Depression
According to The National Institute Of Mental Health, 13.1% of children ages 8-15 have a diagnosable mental illness. Although, the majority of children studied, (8.6%), were diagnosed with Attention Deficit …
Reducing Freshman Fears: How To Emotionally Prepare Your Teen For College
According to the Holmes-Rahe Stress Inventory, a rating scale that assigns a numerical category to different life events, change, of any kind, can be extremely stressful. Even if the change …
Welcome Dr. Schwartz!
Another exciting time of growth at Upside Therapy, Dr. Sarah Schwartz has joined the team! Dr. Schwartz is a provisionally licensed psychologist, supervised by Dr. Rachel Oppenheimer. Dr. Schwartz is passionate about …
Welcome Barbara Crowley
This couldn’t be a more exciting time as Upside Therapy continues to grow, and we are proud to present our new therapist Barbara Crowley, MS, LPC-I. Mrs. Crowley is supervised …