Play Ball! Tips For Helping Your Teen Make The Team
(c) Can Stock Photo Spring is here and with each longer day of – hopefully – sunny weather, it’s also time for a new season of high school sports: baseball, softball, tennis, and soccer. For many of...
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All of us, regardless of age, experience anxiety on a daily basis. Hopefully, as adults, we have learned healthy ways to cope with life’s daily stressors and can identify those times that call for when...
View ArticleHappy Mother’s Day! Let’s Do This Together
As a school psychologist working in a high school, I have the privilege of interacting with a multitude of people – adults and adolescents alike – with a common purpose; to help each other do their...
View ArticleHelping Children Cope with Crisis: Caring for Yourself
Sharing information through writing is something I sincerely enjoy in my work as a clinician. Working both as a school psychologist in a public high school as well as a therapist at Wasatch Family...
View ArticleHelp Your 9th grader Succeed Next Fall: Advice from a School Psychologist
Summer is finally here ! Hopefully you and your student(s) are enjoying the break from homework, studying, and worries about school. And isn’t that exactly what summer is for? However, as we...
View ArticleStarting the School Year off Right – Balancing An Adjustment Period with...
August is here! Most stores have shelves stocked full with back to school supplies and school employees are beginning to attend meetings and trainings to properly prepare for the 2014-2014 school...
View ArticleA Fresh Outlook in The New Year
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View ArticleShould Your Child Repeat a Grade?
Schools today operate with high academic standards. As early as kindergarten, teachers, administrators and parents want to measure students’ performance in order to monitor the rate of learning and...
View ArticleSocial Skills: Let’s Teach Them !
As this school year wraps up, most students and parents will eagerly, or for some anxiously, wait for report cards. Progress in reading, math, writing, physical education and perhaps, depending on...
View ArticleKIDS SOCIAL SKILLS GROUP BEGINS TOMORROW (July 15th)!
This weekly group is designed to help school-aged children navigate the challenges of social situations and understand what it means to be a friend. Focusing on understanding their role and impact on...
View ArticlePlay Ball! Tips For Helping Your Teen Make The Team
(c) Can Stock Photo Spring is here and with each longer day of – hopefully – sunny weather, it’s also time for a new season of high school sports: baseball, softball, tennis, and soccer. For many of...
View ArticleAdolescent School Anxiety : Why Some is Really Ok
All of us, regardless of age, experience anxiety on a daily basis. Hopefully, as adults, we have learned healthy ways to cope with life’s daily stressors and can identify those times that call for when...
View ArticleHappy Mother’s Day! Let’s Do This Together
As a school psychologist working in a high school, I have the privilege of interacting with a multitude of people – adults and adolescents alike – with a common purpose; to help each other do their...
View ArticleHelping Children Cope with Crisis: Caring for Yourself
Sharing information through writing is something I sincerely enjoy in my work as a clinician. Working both as a school psychologist in a public high school as well as a therapist at Wasatch Family...
View ArticleHelp Your 9th grader Succeed Next Fall: Advice from a School Psychologist
Summer is finally here ! Hopefully you and your student(s) are enjoying the break from homework, studying, and worries about school. And isn’t that exactly what summer is for? However, as we...
View ArticleStudent Resiliency: 5 Skills Your Child Needs To Suceed This Year
Over and over the term ‘resiliency’ is being used in conversations between teachers, parents, and in preparation for the upcoming school year. Most of us use the term casually; of course, students who...
View ArticleAdolescent School Anxiety : Why Some is Really Ok
All of us, regardless of age, experience anxiety on a daily basis. Hopefully, as adults, we have learned healthy ways to cope with life’s daily stressors and can identify those times that call for when...
View ArticleHappy Mother’s Day! Let’s Do This Together
As a school psychologist working in a high school, I have the privilege of interacting with a multitude of people – adults and adolescents alike – with a common purpose; to help each other do their...
View ArticleHelping Children Cope with Crisis: Caring for Yourself
Sharing information through writing is something I sincerely enjoy in my work as a clinician. Working both as a school psychologist in a public high school as well as a therapist at Wasatch Family...
View ArticleHelp Your 9th grader Succeed Next Fall: Advice from a School Psychologist
Summer is finally here ! Hopefully you and your student(s) are enjoying the break from homework, studying, and worries about school. And isn’t that exactly what summer is for? However, as we...
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