Blog topic
Family and generational healing
Estrangement, boundaries, parenting, teens, foster care, and patterns passed down.
- Finding Support for Your Autistic Child in Alaska: A Parent's Journey Through a Hard SystemA parent's guide to finding support for an autistic child in Alaska: assessment waitlists, ABA and local services, Medicaid waivers, Stone Soup, and how telehealth helps.
- Setting Boundaries With Difficult Parents (Without Going No Contact)How to set boundaries with difficult parents without going no contact. What healthy boundaries are, how to hold them through guilt and pushback, and when to get support. Alaska.
- When Your Child Is in Foster Care: Separation, Supervised Visits, and Working With Foster ParentsSupport for parents with a child in foster care, understanding separation trauma, making the most of supervised visits, working with foster parents, and staying the course.
- The Weight We Inherit: How Family Secrets and Hidden Abuse Shape UsHow family secrets and hidden abuse shape us across generations, and how healing begins. A trauma-informed counselor in Alaska on breaking the silence safely.
- Parenting From Behind Bars: Staying Connected as an Incarcerated ParentHow incarcerated parents can stay connected to their children, cope with guilt and separation, protect the bond, and prepare for reentry and reunification.
- When Kids Act Out: Is It Behavioral or Psychological? A Parent's Guide to Getting HelpWhen kids act out, is it behavioral or psychological? A parent's guide to telling the difference and finding help, from outpatient care to residential treatment. Alaska families.
- Working Toward Reunification: Understanding the OCS Process in AlaskaA supportive guide for Alaska parents navigating the Office of Children's Services (OCS), understanding the case plan, working toward reunification, and coping with the stress.
- Parenting Differently Than You Were Raised: Breaking the CycleHow to parent differently than you were raised and break generational patterns. Why old reactions resurface, and how to build the family you want. Support for parents in Alaska.
- Parenting a Difficult Teen: Communication That Actually WorksParenting a difficult or defiant teenager: communication strategies that actually work, why connection beats punishment, and how a parent's calm settles a teen. Family support in Alaska.
- Going "No Contact" Isn't the Only Option: How to Reconnect With Family SafelyAfter the WSJ reporting on family estrangement and 'no contact,' a licensed Alaska counselor on the third path: reestablishing contact safely, with healthy boundaries.
- The Sandwich Generation: Caring for Kids and Aging Parents at the Same TimeThe sandwich generation: coping with the stress of caring for children and aging parents at once, the guilt and burnout, and how to set boundaries and get support. Alaska.
- Weeks On, Weeks Off: Parenting Around Slope Work in AlaskaHow Alaska families cope with slope and rotational work, the stress on the at-home parent, the reentry struggle for the returning parent, and how to keep the family and marriage strong.
- Teen Counseling in Wasilla: When Anxiety, Social Media, and School Avoidance Take OverTeen counseling in Wasilla, AK for anxiety, social media overwhelm, and school avoidance. How parents can tell when teen moodiness is a real problem, and how therapy helps.
- Teen Anxiety, Social Media, and School Avoidance: When to Get HelpTeen anxiety, social media, and school avoidance: how parents can tell normal teen moodiness from something that needs help, and what to do. Support for Mat-Su and Anchorage families.
- When Your Child Needs More Than Talk Therapy: Navigating Youth Mental Health Care in the Mat-SuNavigating youth mental health care in the Mat-Su Valley: understanding levels of care from outpatient to residential, finding help during shortages, and what to do while you wait. Alaska.