Tips for Finding a Therapist
Tips for Finding a Therapist If you are considering therapy, finding a therapist can often feel like an overwhelming task. Therapy is such an intimate and personal experience, so it …
Tips for Communicating with Family During the Holiday Season
The holiday season can be a stressful time for many reasons, including increased obligations to spend time with family members. You may not get along with family members or the …
What is Social Skills Training?
Challenges with social communication are a core feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). For example, people with ASD may experience difficulty making eye contact, interpreting non-verbal cues, initiating interactions, engaging …
Suicide Prevention Awareness
Suicide is a complex, but preventable public health issue with significant personal and societal consequences. Suicide constitutes a global disease burden and is currently the 11th leading cause of death …
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Women and Girls
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder that is characterized by challenges in social communication and interaction, as well as restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interest, or activities. According …
What is Executive Functioning Coaching?
What is Executive Functioning? Executive functioning is an umbrella term that encompasses a variety of cognitive processes responsible for guiding, directing, and managing cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functions. These processes …
Special Needs and Friendship
When a parent or caregiver receives a diagnosis for their child, a myriad of thoughts, hopes, dreams and fears flood that parents mind. The medical and financial costs, the emotional …
Talking To Teenagers
Parents often feel that they’ve entered a new planet, or at least a foreign country, when their sweet innocent children become teenagers. Adolescence is a developmental period where identity, responsibility, …
Welcome Jessy Coleman, LPC-Intern!
It is with great pleasure that Upside Therapy and Evaluation Center welcomes our new therapist, Jessica “Jessy” Coleman, LPC-Intern. Jessy is supervised by Nichole Lecznar, MS, LPC-S. Jessy received her …
Treatment Guidelines for Transgender Individuals
Historically, the mental health and medical communities have not always had the best understanding of transgender and gender diverse health care and mental health needs – nor the best intentions …