Around the Corners
The Four Corners Counseling & Well-Being Blog
Serving Washington, DC, Northern Virginia, and Maryland suburbs including Bethesda, Chevy Chase,
Kensington, Rockville, Silver Spring, and Takoma Park.
Finding Your Confidence with Your Therapist
Therapy can be a great space to start getting into a relationship with the parts of us that bravely step up to help do things even when they do not know how to do them or cannot do them.
Shame is Spooky!
Shame is spooky like that too. Something happens and we feel bad - sometimes really bad. Others can’t always see what it is that has made us upset. But we react anyway.
Parenting Teens While Healing our Inner Parts
Parents of teens! You are not alone. This phase of life is not for the faint-hearted. Raising teens can be a time of incredible joy, watching our once-young ones develop into their own person, take on new challenges, and grow into adults. There’s a beautiful shift that happens when our children morph into intelligent, fun, and capable humans.
Clinician Spotlight - Elise Gower, MSW Student Intern
Elise specializes in anxiety, depression, life transitions, grief and loss, spirituality or existential conflict, relationship with self and others, LGBTQ+ life experiences, identity exploration, stress.
Sacred Calling - A Moment of Gratitude
If I can show up as human then I hope my clients have the courage to show up that same way. The road in therapy can be bumpy and uncomfortable but I’m grateful to be seated in the passenger seat, helping navigate the way.
Getting Help with Depression
Depression and anxiety (which often go hand in hand) impact one’s whole life—their body, mind, spirit, and relationships. And so the treatment needs to benefit a person’s whole life, too. We work collaboratively with our clients to design a plan of action that both helps people feel better now, and leads to a full and satisfying life in the long-term.
Simple Ways to Find Balance
The state of our country, and the “relentlessness of the world,” as my colleague Allison Davis described it recently, is a lot to carry in the midst of already full lives. Here’s what works to get me back in balance. Maybe some of these will resonate with you.
Clinician Spotlight - Jessica Garratt, LGPC
Jessica specializes in anxiety, depression, stage of life transitions, motherhood, postpartum mood disorders & “baby blues,” attachment trauma, interpersonal boundaries, relationship concerns, existential concerns, highly sensitive people (HSPs), working with artists/writers.