by Dana Basu, PsyD | Jul 29, 2020 | Coping, Parent Mental Health
How to Find a Therapist So, you’ve made the empowered decision to find a therapist (woo hoo!), but now what? Once you make the decision to go see someone, the next big step is to try to figure out who you are going to go see. So, how, exactly, do you find a therapist?...
by Dana Basu, PsyD | Jul 14, 2020 | Coping, Parent Mental Health
What Happens In Therapy So you’re curious about therapy, but you’ve heard a lot of crazy things about it, and you’re wondering “What really happens in therapy?” You’re in the right place, my friend. Read on as I dispel 7 myths about...
by Dana Basu, PsyD | Jun 14, 2020 | Anxiety, Coping, Parent Mental Health
I think it’s fair to say that many of us are feeling uncomfortable right now. Tensions are high as the coronavirus pandemic rages on, racial inequity is being called out in a way that has never before happened in my lifetime, the economy is tanking, and political...
by Dana Basu, PsyD | Oct 26, 2019 | Coping, Mental Health Basics, Parent Mental Health
I’m going to be honest. Meditation has never been my thing. I feel guilty just saying that, as a psychologist, who regularly recommends meditation to my clients. But I’ve never practiced what I preached. Until now. _____ Several months ago I joined a women’s wellness...
by Dana Basu, PsyD | Sep 13, 2019 | Parent Mental Health, Relationships
Most of us, when we think back to our childhoods, have memories of just being a kid. And accordingly, our attention was focused on “important” things like should I wear my hypercolor shirt or my Bum Equipment shirt today? Should I play 4 square or kickball at recess?...
by Dana Basu, PsyD | Aug 13, 2019 | Coping, Parent Mental Health
Before I became a parent, I had certain visions of what parenthood would look like. Mostly these visions were fueled from my own childhood and the way my parents parented. But they were also influenced from watching my sisters, my cousins, my friends and people in my...
