RAFT Counseling

12/25/2025

🎄❤️ Wishing You a Warm and Gentle Merry Christmas ❤️🎄

From all of us at RAFT, we’re sending you peace, comfort, and moments of joy this holiday season. Whether today is filled with celebration, quiet reflection, or a mix of both, we hope you’re able to honor what you need and give yourself grace.

This time of year can bring connection and warmth—but it can also stir up stress, longing, or complicated emotions. If that’s your experience, please know you’re not alone. Your feelings are valid, and tending to your well-being is just as important as anything wrapped under the tree.

May your day include softness, support, and whatever brings you a sense of grounding. We’re grateful for the opportunity to walk alongside you, now and in the year to come.

✨ Merry Christmas from our hearts to yours. ✨

12/23/2025

We are hiring! 💙

As a therapist at RAFT Counseling, you’ll have the meaningful opportunity to walk alongside individuals, couples, and families as they navigate life’s challenges. Our clinicians create spaces where clients feel understood, grounded, and empowered. If you’re a therapist who shows up with intention and wants to make a real difference, we’d love to meet you. Click the link to learn more and apply! 🌟

As a therapist at RAFT Counseling, you’ll have the meaningful opportunity to walk alongside individuals, couples, and families as they navigate life’s challenges. Our clinicians create spaces where clients feel understood, grounded, and empowered. If you’re a therapist who shows up with intent...

12/21/2025

❄️✨ Happy First Day of Winter! ✨❄️
As the season settles in with quieter days and longer nights, it’s completely normal to notice shifts in your mood or energy. Winter can be calming and cozy—but it can also stir up the blues. Here are a few gentle reminders from our practice as we welcome the season:

🌤️ Seek the Light
Try to get outside during daylight hours, even for a short walk. Natural light can make a meaningful difference in mood and energy.

🤝 Stay Connected
Colder weather can make us want to hibernate, but connection is essential. Reach out to a friend, join a group, or check in with someone you care about.

🧣 Create Warm Rituals
Small comforts—your favorite blanket, a warm drink, soft music, or a few minutes of mindfulness—can help ground you throughout the season.

🛌 Honor Your Energy
It’s okay if you feel slower during the winter months. Listening to your body is a form of self-care, not a weakness.

💬 Ask for Support When You Need It
If winter feels especially heavy this year, you’re not alone. Our therapists are here to help you navigate seasonal shifts with compassion and support.

Wishing you warmth, rest, and gentle moments this winter. 🤍

12/19/2025

Spencer and Shatonya currently have openings for new clients!

Spencer (LPCC, EMDR Trained) offers a safe, nonjudgmental space where you can show up as yourself—whether that includes reflection, humor, or a little sarcasm. Therapy with him is a collaborative process focused on honest conversation, practical tools, and support that fits your life. Spencer supports with navigating stress, anxiety, neurodivergence, and/or medical challenges. 💚

Shatonya (LPC, ADDC, EMDR Trained) specializes in anxiety, addiction, and trauma. Her frame of therapy approaches with a culturally competent, trauma-informed, and LGBTQ+ affirming lens. Therapy with Shatonya is collaborative and offers a space for you to feel seen and heard. She caters her work to fit the needs of her clients. 💜

Reach out to get scheduled via www.raftcounseling.com.

12/16/2025

✨🧶 Happy National Ugly Sweater Day! 🧶✨

Here at RAFT, we firmly believe in embracing every part of ourselves — including our gloriously goofy fashion choices. Today our team is proudly sporting sweaters featuring everything from googly-eyed reindeer to cats riding candy canes. 🐱🎄

Why? Because joy matters. Playfulness matters. And sometimes the best therapy is letting yourself be a little silly.

If you’re celebrating today too, feel free to share your most wonderfully questionable sweater with us — bonus points for pom-poms, sequins, or anything that jingles. 😄

Stay cozy, stay kind, and remember: imperfect is perfect. 💛🧣

12/12/2025

✨ Wishing You a Safe, Gentle, and Peaceful Holiday Season ✨

From all of us at RAFT, we’re sending warmth and care your way as the holidays arrive. This season can bring joy, connection, stress, and everything in between — and however you’re feeling is valid.

Here are a few gentle reminders for taking care of yourself:

💛 Protect Your Peace: It’s okay to say no, set boundaries, and choose what feels nourishing for you.
🌿 Ground Yourself: Take moments to breathe, pause, and check in with your body.
🤝 Reach Out: Connection matters. Lean on your support system or a professional if things feel heavy.
🕯️ Rest Is Productive: Give yourself permission to recharge — emotionally, physically, and mentally.
🎁 Practice Kindness (to Yourself): You deserve compassion, especially from yourself.

We hope your season is filled with moments of calm, comfort, and genuine connection. ✨
Take good care — you matter.

12/09/2025

New blog from your RAFT Counseling Team! 🌟

Feeling thankful but exhausted at Thanksgiving? Learn how holiday burnout, caregiving, and emotional labor work, plus gentle boundaries to protect your energy.

12/04/2025

🍪 Happy National Cookie Day! 🍪

At our therapy practice, we firmly believe in:
1️⃣ Feeling your feelings
2️⃣ Taking deep breaths
3️⃣ And occasionally… treating yourself to a cookie (or two). 😄

Whether you're a classic chocolate chip fan, a snickerdoodle enthusiast, or someone who bravely chooses oatmeal raisin on purpose—we celebrate you today!

Remember: self-care comes in many forms. Sometimes it’s journaling, sometimes it’s setting boundaries… and sometimes it’s enjoying a warm cookie without overthinking it. 💛

Wishing you sweetness, balance, and maybe a crumb or two on your shirt.
🍪✨

12/01/2025

Happy National Christmas Lights Day!

As twinkling lights begin to brighten our homes and neighborhoods, we’re reminded that even the smallest glow can bring warmth to the darkest nights.

This season, let the lights be a gentle reminder:
💛 Small moments matter
💛 Hope can show up softly
💛 You don’t have to shine brightly to make a difference

Wishing you a peaceful start to the holiday season.
— RAFT Counseling

11/27/2025

🦃💛 Happy Thanksgiving from RAFT! 💛🦃

As we head into the holiday season, our team at RAFT wants to take a moment to express our deep gratitude — for our clients, our community, and for the meaningful work we get to do every day.

Thanksgiving can be a time of reflection, connection, and gratitude, but we also know it can bring up mixed emotions for many. However you’re spending the day, we hope you’re able to find a few moments of peace, comfort, and joy. 🌿

✨ Today we’re thankful for:

- The courage of our clients who show up and do the hard work of healing
- The compassion of our team and community
- The reminder that even small steps forward matter

From all of us at RAFT, we’re wishing you a warm, safe, and gentle Thanksgiving. 💛

🧡 Take care of yourself today — you deserve it. 🧡

11/24/2025

✨ What Is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)? A Quick Overview

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a modern, mindfulness-based approach to mental health that helps people build psychological flexibility—learning to stay open, present, and engaged in creating a meaningful life.

Here are ACT’s six core concepts:

🧡 Acceptance
Instead of struggling against painful thoughts or emotions, ACT teaches us to make room for them with compassion. Acceptance isn’t giving up—it’s letting go of the internal fight so we can focus our energy on what truly matters.

🧠 Cognitive Defusion
ACT helps us step back from unhelpful thoughts and see them for what they are: words and mental events, not facts. With defusion, thoughts lose their power to dictate our behavior.

🌿 Being Present
Grounding ourselves in the here and now helps reduce worry about the future or rumination about the past. Mindfulness skills support clarity, calm, and intentional choices.

🌱 Self-as-Context
This is the part of us that notices our thoughts and feelings rather than being defined by them. It’s the stable, observing self—your inner space for awareness and perspective.

💫 Values
ACT helps you identify what matters most to you—qualities of action that make your life meaningful. Your values become a compass for decision-making.

🚀 Committed Action
With values as your guide, ACT encourages taking steady, purposeful steps toward the life you want, even when challenges arise.

ACT isn’t about “feeling better”—it’s about living better.
If you’re curious about how ACT can support you or someone you love, our practice is here to help. 💬💛

11/21/2025

🌿 Therapist Spotlight: Meet Maddy, LPCC, ADDC! 🌿

We’re so excited to shine a light on one of the incredible therapists on our team — Maddy! 💫

Maddy specializes in trauma, substance use recovery, and EMDR, and brings a deeply compassionate approach to helping clients heal and grow. With a special passion for working with adolescents, she creates a safe and supportive space where teens (and adults!) can process difficult experiences, build resilience, and reconnect with their authentic selves.

Whether it’s navigating past trauma, working through recovery, or learning new ways to cope and thrive, Maddy meets every client with empathy, honesty, and hope. 💛

We’re so grateful to have Maddy as part of our RAFT family — her dedication and heart make such a difference every day! 🌼