by Gabrielle Gebel, ALMFT | Apr 15, 2022 | Abuse, Anxiety, Blog, Sexual Assault, Support, Therapy, Trauma
Research on a gender binary shows that 1 in 3 cis women and 1 in 4 cis men have experienced sexual violence involving physical contact during their lifetimes. Moreover, 50-66% of transgender or gender non-conforming people have experienced sexual assault. Thus, it is...
by Lana El Masri | Mar 21, 2022 | Anxiety, Blog, Self-esteem, Therapy
A common theme I have noticed while working with individual female clients who have some degree of anxiety, is that they tend to put themselves in the back seat. What does that mean? Their anxiety becomes the forefront of every aspect in their life. Most of the time,...
by Gabrielle Gebel, ALMFT | Apr 6, 2021 | Blog, Sexual Assault, Therapy, Trauma
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. One in six American women have survived a completed or attempted rape (14.8% completed; 2.8% attempted). 33% of women who have been raped contemplate suicide. Of 1000 sexual assaults, 230 are reported and 5 of them result in a...
by Hollie Schmid, ALMFT | Sep 24, 2019 | Blog, Communication, Intimacy, Relationships, Therapy
One analogy I tend to come back to when working with my couples is to think of your relationship as a garden. If you stop watering your garden, over time the flowers begin to die. Relationships operate very similarly: if you stop giving your relationship the love,...
