You or someone you know may have a deep passion for pop culture and fandom like Star Wars, Batman and Buffy the Vampire Slayer while others in your life may enjoy games like Settlers of Catan, Tekken 8 and Dungeons and Dragons.  Perhaps your joys lie in anime like Sailor Moon, Jujutsu Kaisen or Dragonball Z. Whether you like to play games or cosplay (dress up as your favorite character),or like to find the newest boardgames, there are venues called Comic Con(vention)s for you to feel...

Prior to working at Looking Glass Counseling, one of the staff at the day program I worked at introduced me to the practice and art-making style of Zentangles. What made this approach special to me was that it was introduced by the program’s Peer Specialist, a colleague who self-identified with having mental illness while valuing the recovery model we were both working at. Whether in group therapy sessions when accessing the day program or an employee helping our group practice render...

In the years of providing individual therapy, there are a variety of ways to help get one’s thought process organized and contextualized for their session or their day ahead in between sessions.  Although commonly geared to children to think about their day or week, the question can easily be applied to adults as an act of mindfulness and slowing down. Adapting the prompt from the University of Colorado Boulder  you can imagine the three parts of a rose: the bloom, a bud (the part that will...