Wonders Counseling Blog
Nine Natural Ways to Relieve Stress
Stress. Everyone has it at some point and many people experience it to such extremes health and wellbeing can be severely compromised. There is the day-to-day stress that is part of managing your life, relationships, and career and then there is bigger stress that...
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Helping Parents and Children with Sexual Abuse: Spotlight on Stacy Jagger
Stacy Jagger is a licensed marriage and family therapist and a registered play therapist. She has a thriving private practice outside of Nashville, Tennessee where she works with families, helping children and adults to heal, grow and thrive. Stacy was asked to...
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Play Therapy Resources for Helping Children who Refuse To Go To School
In January 2018 I had the honor of hosting Rose LaPiere, LPC, ACS, RPT-S for a webinar in which she helped we fellow play therapists learn about supporting children who refuse to go to school. Fortunately that webinar was recorded and has an accompanying supplemental...
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Providing a Positive Workplace for Your Team
When you own a business with people hired to work for you, it's important to take care of your team members. It's in everyone's best interest to have happy workers. As a caring business owner, you understand that their whole health and wellbeing comes first. Whether...
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4 Things You Can Do to Feel Calmer
Life is hectic and when life is hectic, we feel that inside. Stress, anxiety, and depression are all very real reactions to a hectic life. No one likes to feel stirred up on the inside, and no one likes to be out of sorts. And the pace of life can be such that we...
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Make Changes for a More Fulfilling Life
It's easy to get bogged down by the grind of daily life. There is so much to do and so little time to do it all it may seem the days fly by with little joy, ending in unsatisfying exhaustion. The spark of joy to jump out of bed has been long missing. Sometimes it...
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Stuck in a rut? 6 Steps to Breaking Free
Let's face it, being stuck in a rut is no fun. It may feel like you’re living out exactly the same day over and over again, and begin to dread getting out of bed. Breaking free of this daily grind is possible, but you need to be willing to make some changes. Someone...
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Health and Wellbeing: Surprising Things You May be Neglecting
You hear so much in the media, from your doctors, your friends and family about health and wellbeing. You can find videos, articles, books, online programs, local fitness centers and wellness professionals just about everywhere with a plethora of information about how...
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3 Organizational Systems for Your Private Practice
I remember when I first met Liz Gray, LCSW, RPT about two years ago. She volunteered out of the blue to help me with a major organizational systems project I had announced I would be doing for my play therapy community on Facebook. Liz told me she loves doing those...
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7 Things That Could Be Blocking You From Your Dream Career
If you are like many people you spend a lot of time thinking about your dream career. That's a very good thing because visualizing what you want to bring to life is an important first phase of manifesting what you long for in your work. The problem here is that often...
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Helping Kids Live a Healthy Lifestyle
Start when they are young! Helping kids live a healthy lifestyle is something parents, teachers and other adults in a child's life need to model and practice consistently. Children will develop healthy habits just as easily as they will develop unhealthy habits IF...
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Working with Tweens in Therapy
Guest Blog Post written by Kerri Anderson Working with tweens in therapy can be both a challenge and a joy! Tweens are truly living in between two worlds. Some days their behavior seems that of a teenager and other days they seem like a younger child. They bounce...
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Why Growing a Play Therapy Private Practice is a Specialized Process
If you are a licensed mental health professional who wants to open a private practice specializing in providing play therapy services, the process of launching and building your business I want to point out some special considerations. Your process is going to have...
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Managing Work Stress: Is Your Side Hustle Making it Worse?
When you are building a business or a private practice it can be tempting to take on a little side hustle to help fill in the gaps and get the bills paid. It's not a bad idea to diversify to some degree when you are in the phase of just starting out and growing your...
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Holistic Preventative Healthcare
As a mental health professional with a holistic approach to helping clients, I take the subject of preventative holistic healthcare seriously and I want to help people understand that having the experience of mental, physical and emotional wellness is something we all...
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5 Things to Help You Make a Statement and Stand Out in Your Profession
Regardless of the professional field you choose to work in there will always be opportunity for collaboration and achievement of goals but there will also always be competition. So, how do you make a statement and stand out in your profession? Honestly, I am not wired...
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Helping Kids Feel Calm With Mindfulness
Helping kids feel calm is a powerful skill and tool for the adults in a child's life to have. The practice of mindfulness has been scientifically proven to change the brains of adults in positive ways. The Center for Mindfulness at University of Massachusetts...
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6 Steps to Actionable Self Love
Self love should be a simple and automatic practice. You should be out there actively enjoying your experiences, speaking kindly to yourself and embracing all of who you are. But, obviously it's much easier said than done. Many of us struggle with a lack of...
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