At the Crossroads
Four Corners Counseling & Well-Being Blog
Serving Washington, DC, Northern Virginia, and Maryland suburbs including Bethesda, Chevy Chase,
Kensington, Rockville, Silver Spring, and Takoma Park.
A New Gratitude for a New Year
As you go about your day, you may notice that you have a fair number of thoughts, worries, hopes, and impulses. You probably find some of these useful as you do all of the things that you are called to do each day, and you may also find several others problematic or scary. That is why IFS therapists, including myself are trained to help with just that, so that you can move towards feeling that appreciation that every part of you deserves. You don’t have to do this on your own.
Is it Ok to Not Feel Grateful?
I have a fear part that worries about losing my rights; some members of my queer community already have. A part of me is angry; it’s so tired of fighting. I have a numb part; it’s shut down. If I pay close enough attention, I discover a hope part; it’s trying to see the good, but feels overshadowed.
Finding Your Confidence with Your Therapist
Therapy can be a great space to start getting into a relationship with the parts of us that bravely step up to help do things even when they do not know how to do them or cannot do them.
Parenting Teens While Healing our Inner Parts
Parents of teens! You are not alone. This phase of life is not for the faint-hearted. Raising teens can be a time of incredible joy, watching our once-young ones develop into their own person, take on new challenges, and grow into adults. There’s a beautiful shift that happens when our children morph into intelligent, fun, and capable humans.
Clinician Spotlight - Elise Gower, MSW Student Intern
Elise specializes in anxiety, depression, life transitions, grief and loss, spirituality or existential conflict, relationship with self and others, LGBTQ+ life experiences, identity exploration, stress.
Simple Ways to Find Balance
The state of our country, and the “relentlessness of the world,” as my colleague Allison Davis described it recently, is a lot to carry in the midst of already full lives. Here’s what works to get me back in balance. Maybe some of these will resonate with you.
Clinician Spotlight - Jessica Garratt, LGPC
Jessica specializes in anxiety, depression, stage of life transitions, motherhood, postpartum mood disorders & “baby blues,” attachment trauma, interpersonal boundaries, relationship concerns, existential concerns, highly sensitive people (HSPs), working with artists/writers.
Clinician Spotlight - Thomas “Teddy” Knebel, LMSW
Four Corners Counseling & Well-Being has skilled, experienced, and compassionate therapists, and we want to share some of what makes them special!