Replay Counseling and Consulting
Formally known as Replay Counseling Center
While completing my culminating project for my Doctor of Behavioral Health, I interviewed many Black women about their lived experiences receiving medical care, specifically their retrospective experiences with perinatal and postpartum care. The participant I will focus on in this article has a robust history of medical treatment for medical concerns. She described healthcare as …
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You’ve probably come across plenty of New Year articles, memes, and videos. Here’s another one, but I want to focus on intention, something I often write about on this wellness and healing platform. Many of us want change in our lives, but it can feel scary because change is uncomfortable. Growth is uncomfortable. I’ve read …
I recently was in a session where the client stated they were waiting for a sense of "normalcy," where nothing in their life was happening. They felt that there had been constant events throughout the last year, which wasn't normal. They mentioned the word "stability," waiting to be stable.Often, analogies help my clients to understand …
Looking forward into February, there are many different holidays, daily, weekly, and monthly. We observe Black History month, American Heart Month, and others. There’s Presidents’ Day, we get that day off as a bank holiday, Groundhog’s day and that is shared on February 2nd with Self-Renewal day. But noted, there is the most popularly celebrated …
From the book The Women at Brewster Place, author Gloria Naylor writes “yea’ know you can’t keep him running away from things that hurt him. Sometimes, you just gotta stay there and teach him how to go through the bad and good of whatever comes.” This coming from a wise older woman giving advice to …
I once heard Amy Morin, LCSW, being interviewed on a podcast. She posed the following question: How do I live my life based on the hand I was dealt? Something to think about! Photo by Anna Tarazevich on Pexels.com With social comparison, social media and advertising efforts, many people are led to believe they are …
Ever so often I hear my clients or friends say this phrase, “I don’t have a choice." I’m always stumped by the statement because it seems as though people don’t realize that they always have a choice. When you are faced with adversity, you might not always recognize all the options in front of you …
I hear this phrase often from parents of teens in my office and even outside of work with friends with teen-aged children. It’s what is said when the teen is complaining about how hard it is to manage their responsibilities. It's sometimes hard to hear because I personally feel as though the teen's emotions are …
My blog began as a way for me to connect to parents. As I've been working with youth and their families for decades, I wanted to write about some of the experiences and give some insight into how children see the world and how we as adults could better connect with them. I rarely write …
Unspoken expectations “Adults have these expectations for kids, and they think we know what they are,” Said a teen in my office who gave me permission to use his words. He was frustrated as are many other kids at the fact that parents and other authority figures have thoughts about what they want, how and …
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