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We provide brief counseling for individuals + couples to help you create deep change in your life, freeing up your energy to achieve stronger relationships & REAL happiness.

07/08/2023

We visited the Coexistence exhibit and loved it!

What a beautiful moment I got to share with my little one!

More about the exhibit...

"Every elephant is a replica of a real wild elephant from the forests of South India, crafted with Lantana camara, an invasive w**d, by a team of indigenous artisans with The Real Elephant Collective. Proceeds from the exhibition go towards supporting Coexistence between humans and nature."

07/07/2023

👨‍👨‍👧‍👧The Weight of Parenthood
I see this dynamic with parents. They believe that their actions are directly correlated to their child's success. How heavy is it to think that we directly cause our child's achievements.
I often hear parents share the feelings of guilt because they lack the time & energy to engage with their 2nd child like they did their first. They fear that their 2nd child won't be successful like their first.
👶They believe that their actions made their child so successful.
This is how I like to think of it... If we think like this- that success of children is 100% correlated to behaviors of parents- doesn't that take the individuality and the value away from the child.

Even more, what if you removed yourself from that burden of feeling like every action you do as a parent is linked to your child's success and allow them the freedom to become who they really are.
🤷 Wouldn't that free them to explore their own success in a way that is fitting for them.. Now that doesn't mean to abandon the notion that we impact our children, it just removes us from the pressure that every action we take it linked to their success..
💃Freeing us up as parents, freeing our child up & allowing for less pressure and more happiness.

07/06/2023

Parenting is all about Being Intentional

What does that mean?

The other day I was sharing with a friend how long are the days of being able to decide things on a whim.

Now, if I want "me time" I have to plan it. If I need to fill up my "social cup" I have to plan it weeks in advance. Need to exercise.. carve out the time days ahead.

You have to be so intentional in ensuring that all of your needs are met as a parent. But what if you don't know what your needs are- what you need for physical and emotional health?

That is where the issues arise and where self-awareness and therapeutic work can be key to happiness as a parent.

Understanding what we need as a parent to succeed is step one. From there we can take the next step of finding ways to ensure are needs are met.

So if you are struggling, feeling overwhelmed, running on empty and just surviving.. therapy might be the first step in getting you back on track. I'm here if you have any questions and am taking new clients if you think we might be a good fit to work together. Reach me at: April@TheHeardCounseling.com

07/05/2023

Client Win!

A mom I was working with shared the strained relationship she had with her mother- she always felt like she had to be her mom's emotional rock, with her mom calling her many times a day.

In one of our sessions together, she shared how she wanted to be there for her mom but had to take care of herself first. The last time her mother called her she had been able to set a boundary and told her mom she couldn't speak because she was with her own son.

Small steps but a big impact. Very proud!

07/04/2023

Client Case- Relationship Challenges after Baby

* All identifying details are altered or generalized to maintain confidentiality.

Having a baby changes everything- even your marriage & relationship. I worked with a couple that was struggling to connect after the baby.

🙇The husband was feeling left out, while the wife was resentful that his life hadn't changed like hers.
🙋 She shared that she felt his life hadn't changed.

Together we unraveled the problem and found out what was really going on. Both partners were exhausted and feeling isolated and alone in this new phase of life.

Instead of their partner feeling like an enemy, we worked on sharing the underlying emotions behind their issues and improve connection.

👬At the end of our work together they shared how valuable this process had been to them. They had taken the tools we worked on together and were applying them to their daily life and felt they had a new understand about what was happening in their relationship.

👫If you or anyone you know is struggling in their relationship or marriage after a baby, please reach out. Our relationship impacts every aspect of our life including our happiness. Healing our relationship, can heal ourselves. I am taking on new couples clients to work with me one on one.

07/04/2023

😀 A featured of us in Shoutout Miami😀

07/03/2023

😞I miss my freedom.
I still have this thought nearly every day.
I am still grieving my independence, my ability to do what I wanted and when I wanted it.
For me, independence has always been essential to my being.
Anything that jeopardized it caused a strong visceral reaction in me.
Its something that so many mothers go through, but we sometimes can't put words to our feelings or feel guilty expressing.
When we give birth, our sense of responsibility forever changes in an instance.
If you, like myself, value independence, the very nature of motherhood can be triggering.
Over time I have had to get comfortable with having another being solely dependent on me and my partner.
There are days when I can welcome that closeness and there are days when I feel like I am being suffocated.
I understand that this is not a reflection of the relationship with my little one, but my values.
It is less about her and more about me and my needs as an individual.
Seeing this has allowed me to accept my feelings and not shame them..
And when I do that, when I accept what I am feeling, they seem to melt away.
I still miss my old freedom, I always will, but motherhood has taught me to really value the individual within the relationship of parenting.
It has taught me to take every day to find a moment of self, to value myself and my individuality, and I will be forever thankful for that.
If you are or know a parent struggling with this as a parent and would benefit from working 1-1 with my in counseling, please reach out at April@theHeardCounseling.com to learn more.

07/01/2023

Teaching your little on about culture..the good and the bad..

For me, this picture brings be great joy. Seeing my little one clad in an English kit..

There is great beauty and richness in teaching your little one about your culture, but we want to share the full picture.

There is greatness in English culture

But there is also a dark history of oppression and racism (still today- the racist abuse that 3 soccer heroes had to endure)

So, when I talk to my little one about where I was born. It will be the good, the fun, but will also be about the bad and the need for growth, because through teaching the truth we can support the next generation to foster change.

06/30/2023

I want to share with you what I call postpartum grief.

It is that experience many moms, and dads, go through where they are grieving and missing their life before baby.

You might feel like you’ll never get your freedom back, that you have lost the connection you had with your husband or you might just be missing being able to go to the bathroom or store by yourself.

On top of those feelings we often feel guilt in even thinking these things.

We tell ourselves that we can’t love our baby if we are wishing we had our life back before baby.

I'm here to tell you that that is not true.

You can love your baby but deeply miss and grieve the life you had before.

You might find yourself crying and longing for the freedom you had, and I’m here to tell you that that is okay and that is the experience of so many mothers… we just don’t talk about it enough.

06/29/2023

Good therapists go to therapy!

I strongly believe this! Good therapist do the inner work each and every day to show up for themselves and for their clients.

So what does my therapy relationship look like? I feel like a generally have a good grasp on whats going on in my life, where I could improve or where things are needing more attention (thanks to more than 10 years studying in the psychology field and years of therapy), but there are moments when I can't see things clearly and that is when therapy comes in.

Going to therapy removes the veil for me and allows me to see why things are happening the way they are.. and then when I understand the situation, I am more aware and can go about the process of change.

Sometimes I don't reach out to my therapist for months, sometimes I see her every two weeks- but either way I know that process is there for me, supporting me to continue my self-growth so I can be the best support for my clients.

If you are seeking a therapist I am taking new 1-1 clients. Reach me at: April@TheHeardCounseling.com

06/28/2023

Incredible!

My client shared with me this week that for the first time ever she was able to go over to her mother in laws house and actual enjoy her time without being reactive or emotional due to what she learned in our 1-1 work together! 🤗

06/27/2023

Client Case- Distance between Teenage Daughter and Father

* All identifying details are altered or generalized to maintain confidentiality.

😐Being a teenager is hard.

😥Parenting a teenager is hard too. In one case I helped a father and daughter reconnect after years of animosity, anger and not speaking.

The teen described her father as arrogant, said, he didn't love her and didn't even want to be around him.

The father, felt disrespected, hurt and couldn't understand why the teen felt that way.

❤️What I brought to light with them both was that they had different love languages.

The daughter needed words of affirmation and quality time (saying he loves her and listening to her, doing activities together), while the father showed love with acts of service (providing, taking her to school, doing things around the house, going to sports games).

Together I worked with them to guide them to be able to speak each other's love language- and heal the years of hurt because of their differences in expression of love.

Results: The tension in the household dissipated, they shared, and are happy to be working on growing their relationship together.

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