Click here or the image to watch the segment! A Parent’s Survival Guide to the Holidays The holiday season should be a time for cheer, but sometimes for some people, it’s not. Actually, 1 in 4 people feel dread about the upcoming holiday season. Most…
Author: Jessie Shepherd, LCMHC
Jessie Shepherd is a Mental Health Counselor and owner of Blue Clover Therapy in Utah. She has a Masters Degree in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Phoenix and a Bachelors degree in Psychology from the University of Utah. Her focus is treating trauma, eating disorders and adjustment issues in adults, adolescents, children and their families. She utilizes Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Play Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
Please stop buying my kids toys
I know why people buy my children gifts- they care about them and they think that a gift will make them happy. I very much appreciate the gesture and the thought that goes into these gifts, but here is the honesty of the situation- they…
8 foolproof ways to not raise an a**hole
We have all met that one kid that we think to ourselves, “Wow, that kid is going to grow up to be an a**hole.” And personally I don’t want that to be my kid. So based on the characteristics of an entitled self absorbed adult…
Death by sugar (I’m not kidding)
Let’s take a moment to acknowledge that Halloween is on a Tuesday this year and our kids’ sweet hearted teachers will have to deal with them the day after a sugar high-crash-high-crash/no sleep cycle. *deep breath & we’re back.* Most parents that I have spoken…