Couples & Family Therapy Center, LLC

10/21/2025

Ready to see our (office) fixer upoer? Open for business! We are in! Still more to do, but we are most of the way there. “Chip” and I 😉 moved our whole suite, including a waiting room and 7 offices of furniture (basically 7 living rooms and an art room) in 3 days over the weekend and the therapists got settled in on Sunday. Whew! We are so sore and tired, but pretty darn happy with what we were able to do in two weeks! Now we can finish the job at a normal pace. It’s so fun to see the different styles in each room as the therapists make it their own. I might do another reveal of mine later when I get a chance to work on it and we have some better pictures. It’s hard to capture how good it feels in there, but here are a few shots. We are loving it so far and hope our clients do too ❤️

10/17/2025

Reno Phase 2: Red walls become blue! Most of the 7 offices had a red accent wall, which we needed to change for many reasons 😉. Since we don’t have time to paint every office right now, all we could get done were the blue walls. It came out more blue than the darker slate I thought it would be. But I’ve learned to quiet my perfectionist mind with “good enough!” ☺️. We’ll paint them all eventually. Moving on!

10/14/2025

Anyone like to watch design transformations? We are moving one of our suites to a larger space in the same building. We are switching spaces with the State Farm office everyone has known to be here for so many years. Don’t worry, they are still here, just moving upstairs and we are moving down! We are so grateful to the kind State Farm team as they have let us plan and paint while they work 😅. The dramatic difference in our branding colors makes this transformation fun to watch. Plus, we are making this switch in record time of 2 weeks! We are 10 days in now, have painted for about 40 hours and have the floors in. Watch it come to life over the next week or so. ❤️ Luckily my husband and I are the less talented Chip and Joanna Gaines. We flipped our first house in 1999 before we were even married! This is my kind of therapy, so fun, but much more painful at this age 😉😅

09/06/2025

School Stress? 3 Tips To Help Your Kids Manage Stress

https://cftc-online.com/school-has-begun-3-tips-to-help-your-kids-manage-stress

09/06/2025

*Openings Available for Child Therapy!
School has begun! Could your child benefit from therapy? School is full of stressors many parents are not aware of. It's not the same as when we were in school.

Classrooms can be overstimulating, the demands are getting higher, and the threats are getting scarier.

Sometimes it's easy to know when our kids are stressed, but other times we miss it. They might seem overtired, bored, or irritable. Maybe they are withdrawn and quiet, or melting down and acting out.

Parents do their best to support their kids, but sometimes we can still feel lost and confused, not knowing how to help. Therapy may be a great option to support you and your kiddo if stress seems to be climbing.

Therapists can help kids better understand and express their feelings, cope with difficult situations and find solutions through creative and playful outlets. Therapy also helps parents to better understand their child's needs as well as their own, so they can feel more confident and connected with their family.

If you think therapy might be helpful for your family, give us a call at 715-441-1828, or email us at info@cftc-online.com.

If you're experiencing depression, anxiety, or relationship problems, help is closer than you think. Contact CFTC-Online for professional counseling.

06/19/2025

Mental Health Benefits of Taking Your Shoes Off

Summer is here, whether the temperatures are climbing in your area yet or not. It’s been a bit slow to arrive here in the Midwest this year, but the flowers are starting to bloom.

Therapy often gets put on the backburner during summer in the Midwest, and sometimes for good reasons. It’s not always about being too busy trying to squeeze in all of the vacations and time outside we can, but it’s also because there are so many ways to improve our mood and increase our joy through being outside and seeing more sunshine.

Most people are not intentionally trying to improve their mental health in the summer, it’s just a lucky side effect we get to benefit from. However, if you are looking for clues of what else improves our mood besides the sun, look down to the ground. Having our bare feet directly on the grass or in the sand connects us to the Earth’s energy and has been shown to have a calming effect which can decrease anxiety and improve our mood. (If you find this concept interesting, you can research “grounding” or “earthing” to learn more about its health benefits.)

The best wellness tips I find are those that are easy to implement into things you do already. So, think about the times you are already in the yard that you could easily take off your shoes, whether that’s gardening, sitting by a fire, walking to the mailbox, or in my case, puppy-poop-scooping every morning. I figure it’s easier to wash my feet than my shoes if I step in anything, ha!

If you are looking for more support for your mental wellness, go to our website at cftc-online.com, or reach out to our office at 715-441-1828.

https://cftc-online.com/mental-health-benefits-of-taking-your-shoes-off

04/11/2025

https://cftc-online.com/midlife-mental-wellness

Midlife Mental Wellness - We are passionate about thriving through midlife and are here to help you navigate your challenges and aspirations during this time of life.

We are happy to help you with the many changes midlife can bring, whether that's with your health, relationships, aging parents and launching kids, grief and loss, career goals, and more etc.

This is a time to evolve and embrace who you are and what you want out of life. Of course it comes with it's challenges, as each stage of life does, but it can also be a rewarding, connecting, and liberating time when we go through it together.

Give us a call! 715-441-1828.

High quality counseling services for children, teens, adults, couples and families.

02/08/2025

https://cftc-online.com/brainspotting
Feel like talk therapy isn't cutting it and want to try something different? Check out brainspotting! Like EMDR and other models of therapy that resolve issues on a deeper brain level with less talking, brainspotting is becoming another tool people can utilize for healing trauma and emotional stress, as well as improve performance and personal growth.

01/24/2025

Always a good reminder

09/20/2024

How to Support a Loved One Through a Panic Attack | https://cftc-online.com/how-to-support-a-loved-one-through-a-panic-attack

09/17/2024

Creating an Autism-Friendly Home | https://cftc-online.com/creating-an-autism-friendly-home

09/14/2024

How to Tell Someone Your Boundaries | https://cftc-online.com/how-to-tell-someone-your-boundaries