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How to Build a Healthy Gratitude Practice Without Toxic Positivity
Discover how to create a gratitude practice that feels genuine and supportive. Learn mindful techniques to notice, appreciate, and honor your emotions without forcing positivity.

Lauren Veazey, MA LPCC
4 days ago7 min read


The Benefits of Letting Go of the O! Why Keeping Orgasms as the Main Focus is Ruining Your Sex Life
Orgasms aren’t the only path to pleasure. This post explores how redefining sex can deepen intimacy, connection, and joy. Learn to release the pressure of performance, embrace your needs and desires, and connect with your body from a place of curiosity and self-compassion. Her Time Therapy offers trauma-informed, sex-positive counseling to support your sexual wellness journey.

Erin Brandt
Nov 125 min read


Surviving (and Maybe Even Enjoying) the Holidays
The holidays are a mix of joy and stress—family tensions, financial pressure, grief, and packed schedules can leave you overwhelmed. This post offers practical tips for surviving the holidays: noticing stress, resetting your body, setting boundaries, reframing thought traps, and creating a Plan B to help you feel calmer, present, and more in control this season.

Lurah Patrick
Oct 316 min read


Holding Humanity: Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, and the Cost of Care for Emergency Workers
In emergency and healthcare settings, compassion and strength often come at a personal cost. This post explores the emotional toll of caregiving—the exhaustion, burnout, and compassion fatigue that arise when we continuously care for others while neglecting ourselves.

Theresa Fagundes
Oct 155 min read


Why Neurodivergent Women Feel Stuck in Their Careers (and How to Break Free)
For many neurodivergent women, career struggles aren’t about motivation — they’re about misalignment. This post explores masking, burnout, shame, and executive functioning challenges, while offering strategies for building a career that honors your values, strengths, and needs. You’re not broken — the workplace just wasn’t designed with you in mind.

Sydney Grau
Sep 256 min read


When Your Mind Feels Like It’s on Fire: Mental Health in Perimenopause
Perimenopause isn’t just hot flashes—it can shake your mood, memory, and sleep. In this post, we explore how hormonal shifts impact mental health, why brain fog and anxiety often peak in this stage, and what practical tools and therapies can help. You don’t have to white-knuckle your way through this transition—support is available so you can navigate perimenopause with resilience, clarity, and hope.

Lurah Patrick
Sep 25 min read


You Know This is Not the Life You Want — So Why Can’t You Do What It Takes to Change It?
Many women struggle with feeling stuck—caught between high expectations, self-doubt, and unseen barriers. In this post, we explore the hidden forces that keep women from moving forward and the importance of compassion in living the life they want to live.

Meagan Clark, MA LPC NCC BC-TMH
Aug 299 min read


Questions About Your Medicaid Coverage? Here’s How to Stay Connected to Mental Health Care
You may be reading this blog because you recently received notice that your Medicaid coverage ended, you want to know more about recent shifts in Colorado's Medicaid Program (Health First Colorad0), or because you’re concerned about upcoming changes due to federal healthcare legislation—usually referred to as the “big beautiful bill”—that could affect your benefits. Whatever your situation, our goal is to empower you with information and guidance to help you navigate through

Lauren Veazey, MA LPCC
Aug 196 min read


The Emotional Journey of New Motherhood
Becoming a mother can awaken unexpected emotions, especially if you’re carrying unresolved pain from the past. The postpartum period is intense — full of hormonal shifts, identity changes, and emotional vulnerability. If you feel overwhelmed, triggered, or not like yourself, you’re not alone. This season can be a powerful invitation to tend to your own healing while learning how to care for your baby with greater compassion and clarity.

Lauren Veazey, MA LPCC
May 65 min read


The Power of Online Therapy for Women
Balancing work, family, and personal well-being can feel overwhelming. That’s where online mental health counseling comes in as a...

Meagan Clark, MA LPC NCC BC-TMH
Mar 266 min read


Understanding Anxiety in Women: Symptoms, Causes, and How Therapy Can Help
Anxiety is one of the most common mental health struggles, and women are diagnosed with anxiety disorders at nearly twice the rate of men.

Meagan Clark, MA LPC NCC BC-TMH
Mar 2011 min read


Faith, Identity, and Loss: How Religious Trauma Impacts the Queer Community
Explore how religious trauma impacts the queer community and discover ways to heal and find belonging and support.

Lesley Fulton
Jan 1211 min read


From Fear to Freedom: How to Reduce Anxiety around Weight Gain and Build a Positive Relationship with Food and Fitness
In today’s society, many women struggle with eating anxiety , body image issues, and a deep-seated fear of weight gain. These feelings...

Cherie Couvillon
Nov 21, 202410 min read


The Impact of Election Stress: A Mental Health Survival Guide for Women
“Don’t take it personally” is something we hear often as women. It’s typically said when our justified anger is dismissed as “just a...

Meagan Clark, MA LPC NCC BC-TMH
Oct 25, 20249 min read


Living with Chronic Illness: What Women Should Know & How Therapy Can Help
Living with chronic illness can feel isolating and overwhelming, but therapy and support groups provide hope for emotional and mental relief

Lesley Fulton
Sep 27, 20248 min read


The Power of Movement: Exercise and Mental Health Benefits
Learn how exercise improves mental health and how therapy paired with exercise can help reduce anxiety and depression.

Shannon Duffy, MA LPCC
Sep 5, 20246 min read


The Depression Gender Gap: Why Women are More Depressed and What to Do About It
Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression compared to their male counterparts for multiple reasons—learn what to do about it

Meagan Clark, MA LPC NCC BC-TMH
Jun 26, 202410 min read


Moving On from People-Pleasing: How Boundaries Can Heal You and Your Relationships
Did you know that there are actually three types of boundaries? Learn how to set them and improve your relationships.

Amy Moulton
May 13, 20247 min read
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