by Ann Durant, LCSW “The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” – Alan Alda The Importance of Creative Expression In Daily Life read more

by Peggy Ann Barnett, PhD, LMHC   “Spring” by Archie Greenidge Spring is life Spring is hope So is love and happiness. Spring renews. Without spring, life is forlorn. Spring is nostalgia after bitter storm. Put spring in your heart Spring for many of us is about coming out of the doldrums of winter and read more

by Mary Ragan, PhD, LCSW and Executive Director of PSI “What Good Will Talking Do?”Quite a lot, as it turns out.Sometimes people come into therapy saying some version of: “What good will talking do? I know what my problem is and I know what I need to do. Nothing you can say will change the facts; read more

by Julia Kristeller, MEd   In her hit song, Tina Turner begs the question: What’s love got to do, got to do with it? What’s love but a second-hand emotion? What’s love got to do, got to do with it? Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken? She may be singing of read more

by Kim Schneiderman, LCSW Several years ago, I participated in a group exercise at a job orientation that became a guiding metaphor about how to remain connected to my inner voice amid the noise of modern life. The goal of the exercise was to walk from one end of a large room to the other, read more