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8 Signs Your Relationship is Ready for the Next Step

When I first met the man who would later become my husband, I was a mess.  I had just ended a long-term, serious relationship with my college sweetheart and my preferred attire could best be described as Gremlin-chic.  If you are envisioning messy buns, baggy sweatpants, with matching raccoon-esque eye bags, you would be exactlyContinue reading “8 Signs Your Relationship is Ready for the Next Step”

May’s Book of The Month—Reclamation for a New Generation

“being called a chingón or chingona still holds those colonial and patriarchal insinuations: that you are acting like a parentless-or more specifically a fatherless-child….To be called a chingona is to be considered an unclaimed person. A chingona is a brown woman who needs to be conquered- someone who is growing up to become an unrulyContinue reading “May’s Book of The Month—Reclamation for a New Generation”

6 Ways Your Child Can Benefit from Summer Counseling

Are you counting the days until the beginning of summer fun, or are you dreading the lack of structure, clashing personalities, and arguments over screen time? Whether you live for the days of summer or are already looking ahead to August, chances are you know that summer is just… different. Even when families are excitedContinue reading “6 Ways Your Child Can Benefit from Summer Counseling”

7 Surprising Reasons to Try Group Therapy

Are you a professional or potential client interested in finding out more about group therapy? Check out the Houston Group Psychotherapy Society (HGPS)! Group therapy is a type of psychological therapy that involves meeting with a group of people to share your experiences and learn from others. This type of therapy can be helpful forContinue reading “7 Surprising Reasons to Try Group Therapy”

April’s Book of the Month: Letter to the New Professional

“…it has always struck me as an extraordinary privilege to belong to the venerable and honorable guild of healers….who have, since the beginning of time, ministered to human despair.”  Dr. Irvin D. Yalom April is Counseling Awareness Month, which the American Counseling Association describes as a time dedicated to “focus[ing] on the central role thatContinue reading “April’s Book of the Month: Letter to the New Professional”

March’s Book of the Month — Looking at Autism Through Her Eyes

“…this is more than a memoir. It’s also a model of how autism works, a mirror of how autism can feel, and a manifesto celebrating the beauty of autistic brains.” Annie Kotowicz World Autism Acceptance Week began on March 27, 2023, which just happens to overlap with the last week of Women’s History Month. TheContinue reading “March’s Book of the Month — Looking at Autism Through Her Eyes”

Student Loan Forgiveness Resources and Facts

Financial health is mental health. Like many Americans, some of us here at The Feelings Healers have mountains (heck, whole ranges) of student loan debt. While for some this may be a matter of principles, morality, or even politics (whyyyyyyyy?) — we just want to cut through the static a bit. If all borrowers claimContinue reading “Student Loan Forgiveness Resources and Facts”

The Feelings Healers’ Statement on a Post-Roe v. Wade America

Yesterday, a ruling we knew was coming landed that will do even further damage to an already unjust, indecent, and fundamentally damaged system across the nation. Already, the United States — and especially Texas — runs counter to globally accepted expectations of reproductive rights. Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States gave states theContinue reading “The Feelings Healers’ Statement on a Post-Roe v. Wade America”