Halloween, Sensory Overload, and Anxious Kids: How Parents Can Help
Halloween can be exciting—and a little overwhelming. For kids with anxiety, ADHD, autism, or sensory sensitivities, costumes, crowds, loud decorations, and changes in routine can quickly become too much. Here are simple ways parents can help kids feel safer, more regulated, and still enjoy the spooky fun.
OCD Isn’t Just Being Organized: What OCD Can Actually Look Like
OCD is more than liking things neat or organized. From intrusive thoughts and constant doubt to invisible mental compulsions, OCD can show up in ways you might not expect. Learn what OCD actually looks like, how the cycle works, and how evidence-based treatment can help you break free.
What Does Culturally Responsive Therapy Actually Mean?
What does culturally responsive therapy really mean? Learn how culture, identity, family, and lived experience can be honored in therapy with curiosity, respect, and care.
ADHD and Executive Functioning: Why Knowing What to Do Isn’t Always Enough
Learn how ADHD affects executive functioning, including task initiation, time management, organization, and follow-through. Explore practical tips for kids, teens, and adults to make daily life feel more manageable.
Not Sure Whether to Say Yes or No? Try This.
Not sure whether to say yes or no? This post explores how people-pleasing, anxiety, avoidance, and boundaries can shape our decisions—and introduces the DBT Dime Game as a practical way to slow down, check in with yourself, and make choices that feel more intentional.
Parenting Teen Girls: What I Knew as a Therapist, But Had to Learn as a Mom
Parenting a teenage girl can feel complicated. Learn what’s normal, when to worry, and how therapy can support teen girls and their parents.
Before the First Day: Supporting Kids, Teens, and College Students Through School Transitions
School transitions can bring excitement, anxiety, homesickness, and pressure before the first day even arrives. Learn practical ways to help kids, teens, and college students feel more prepared, supported, and confident.
Self-Care That Actually Fits Real Life
Self-care does not have to be expensive, aesthetic, or perfectly planned. Discover realistic, low-pressure ways to care for yourself when life feels full and your capacity is low.
Pride Month and Mental Health: The Power of Being Seen and Supported
Pride Month is a reminder that being seen, accepted, and supported can deeply impact mental health. In this post, Tiny Planet Counseling explores the connection between LGBTQIA+ belonging, mental health, stigma, and the life-changing power of affirming support.
Men’s Mental Health: Why So Many Men Struggle in Silence
Many men are taught to struggle silently, to be strong, stay composed, and keep going no matter what they are carrying. But emotional pain does not disappear when it is hidden. In this blog, Tiny Planet Counseling explores why so many men feel pressure to suppress their feelings, how stigma and survival-based patterns impact mental health, and why reaching out for support is a sign of strength, not weakness.
Keeping It Together-ish: Summer Transitions, Schedule Chaos, and Parenting With Lower Expectations
Summer can be beautiful, chaotic, expensive, overstimulating, and somehow sticky all at once. In this warm, relatable post, Maureen Czaykowsky, LMSW shares real-life encouragement for parents navigating summer transitions, schedule changes, childcare stress, vacations, travel, and the pressure to “make memories” while also keeping everyone fed, regulated, and reasonably okay. With two kids of her own, Maureen offers practical reminders about affordable camps, free community activities, play dates, flexible routines, deep breaths, patience, and the life-giving power of lowering expectations.