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Mighty Minds Therapy is a mental health practice offering a wide range of services for those who are in need of healing following traumatic experiences, upsetting events, and life’s unpredictable ups and downs.

12/23/2025

The holidays are often framed as joyful—but for many people, they can intensify grief, stress, and emotional exhaustion. 💭💔
Here are evidence-informed, trauma-aware ways to care for yourself when the holidays hurt:

✨ Allow emotions without forcing “holiday cheer.” Emotional suppression increases stress; allowing feelings supports regulation.

✨ Adjust traditions to fit your current capacity—not past expectations. Flexibility protects mental health.

✨ Light a candle, display a photo, or share a memory 🕯️📸 Rituals support meaning-making and continuing bonds.

✨ Speak their name. Connection doesn’t end with loss—it evolves 💬❤️

✨ Build rest into busy days. Nervous systems need recovery, especially during high-demand seasons 😌🛌

Save this post for later or share it with someone who may need permission to go gently this season. Choose one practice to intentionally try this week.

12/16/2025

Holiday Parenting Overwhelm? You’re not doing it wrong.

The holiday season places increased demands on children’s nervous systems. Changes in routine, heightened sensory input, travel, and social expectations can all contribute to dysregulation, especially for children who are sensitive, neurodivergent, or have experienced trauma.

Evidence informed, nervous system friendly supports that help during the holidays:

• Connection over performance
Emotional safety comes before behavior correction. Co regulation first, problem solving later. Children encode how the holidays feel, not how perfectly they unfold.

• Build in breaks
Predictable quiet time, slower transitions, and advance preparation reduce cognitive and sensory load. Flexibility is protective.

• Maintain routines
Consistent sleep, meals, and daily rhythms support regulation. Structure signals safety to the nervous system.

• You’re not alone
Parenting during this season requires tenderness and flexibility for your child and for yourself. Struggle does not equal failure.

12/09/2025

🎄 Holiday Boundaries: Why “It’s OK to Say No” Matters for Children

Family gatherings often come with expectations about hugs, greetings, and participation. For many children, these moments activate stress responses, especially when they feel pressured to engage in ways that don’t feel comfortable. Supporting healthy boundaries is an important part of social-emotional development and long-term autonomy.

✔️ Model consent
Children learn by observing. When adults ask before initiating touch or accept a child’s no, it normalizes bodily autonomy and reduces coercive social pressure.

✔️ Validate feelings instead of pushing compliance
Acknowledging a child’s hesitation helps regulate their nervous system. Validation decreases shame and increases their capacity to make choices from a place of safety.

✔️ Offer structured choices
Providing options like a high five, a wave, a verbal hello, or simply greeting from a distance supports agency while still promoting social engagement. This aligns with trauma-informed and respectful parenting practices.

✔️ Remember children do not owe physical affection
Requiring hugs or kisses teaches children to override discomfort. Allowing them to decline reinforces trust in their internal cues and supports healthy consent development.

✔️ A felt sense of safety builds boundaries
When children feel safe to say no, their confidence, self-advocacy, and boundary formation grow stronger over time.

12/02/2025

Has your child been extra clingy, jumpy, or having nightmares after seeing something scary or going through a frightening experience? 🛡️

These reactions are common. When children encounter scary content or scary experiences, their nervous system shifts into protection mode. As a trauma-informed child therapist, I see this every week, and there are ways to help their brain settle again.

Here’s what I guide parents to do in the first hours and days:

✨ Stay close and regulated. Your calm presence signals safety to their nervous system.
🚫 Avoid replaying scary content or talking in detail about the event. Re-exposure can reinforce the threat response.
🧠 Give simple, age-appropriate facts. Clarity reduces uncertainty.
💬 Validate feelings. “That was scary. I’m here. You’re safe now.”
🎨 Use play or drawing to process. Kids integrate experiences through action and imagination, not long conversations.
📅 Re-establish predictable routines. Structure helps shift their brain out of fight or flight.

These steps work because they help restore felt safety, the foundation for emotional regulation and recovery.

If the fear isn’t fading after a few days, or if you’re noticing nightmares, avoidance, new worries, or ongoing distress, trauma-informed therapy can help. At Mighty Minds Therapy, we support children using evidence-based approaches including EMDR, play therapy, and neuroscience-informed treatment.

Your child’s healing doesn’t require perfection, it requires connection. 💜
If you’re concerned, we’re here to help.

Learn more or schedule at: www.mightymindstherapy.com

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11/18/2025

Your body remembers what your mind tries to move past.
If your reactions feel bigger than the situation, here’s why.

Do any of these feel familiar?
• Big reactions to small triggers
• Feeling on edge or shutting down
• Trouble sleeping or staying focused
• Difficulty connecting with others
• A sense of being “stuck” in stress
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These are not personality flaws or signs of being “too sensitive.” These are nervous system responses. When the body has experienced trauma or chronic stress, it stores information the mind may not consciously recall. 🧠

A dysregulated nervous system can shift into fight, flight, or freeze quickly, even without immediate danger. This can lead to emotional overwhelm, irritability, shutdowns, or exhaustion. It can make everyday tasks like staying present, focusing, or sleeping feel harder than they should.

Healing requires more than insight. It involves working with both the brain and the body to recalibrate the system, release stored stress, and restore regulation. Approaches like EMDR, somatic therapy, and polyvagal-informed work help the nervous system relearn safety. 🌿

Progress is rarely linear, but it is possible. You’re not alone. 🌱
Learn more or schedule with a trauma-informed therapist at Mighty Minds Therapy.

11/12/2025

💬 Helping kids name their feelings is one of the most powerful tools for emotional regulation.
When children identify what they feel, the brain shifts out of fight-or-flight into a calm, organized state. 🧠
This skill — called affect labeling — reduces emotional overwhelm, improves behavior, and builds lifelong coping skills. 🌱

Kids don’t act out for no reason.
They act out when their feelings are too big, too fast, or too unclear to express. 💔

Building emotional vocabulary helps children:
✨ Regulate big feelings
🗣️ Improve communication at home and school
🤝 Strengthen relationships
💡 Develop lifelong emotional literacy

At Mighty Minds Therapy in the Denver Metro / Wheat Ridge area, we provide child therapy, teen therapy, and family support using play therapy, EMDR, CBT, and neuroscience-informed approaches. 🧩
We help children who struggle with emotional regulation, anxiety, trauma, behavior challenges, and communication skills.

🔗 Learn more or schedule a session at mightymindstherapy.com

11/04/2025

Your Brain Isn’t the Enemy — It’s Sending False Alarms 🧠⚡️

Thoughts like
“I’ll never get better” or
“Everyone else has it together”
aren’t facts — they’re cognitive distortions, also known as thought traps.

CBT teaches skills to interrupt those automatic thoughts and respond with clarity instead of fear or self-criticism.

In therapy, we practice:
🔍 Evidence checking — What’s actually true?
👁️ Perspective shifting — What would I tell a friend?
📈 Pattern awareness — When have I succeeded before?
💛 Self-compassion — Would I judge anyone else this harshly?
🧩 Skill building — What’s one doable step right now?

These aren’t “positive affirmations.”
They're evidence-based tools that retrain the brain and support long-term emotional regulation, confidence, and resilience.

If you're noticing thought traps showing up more often — especially during stress, transition, or healing work — CBT can help you create space between a thought and a reaction.

Care that’s grounded in science. Tools that actually build change.

📍 Wheat Ridge, CO
💻 Telehealth in CO | NV | IN
🧠 Trauma-informed therapy for kids, teens, and parents

Learn more at mightymindstherapy.com

10/28/2025

🧠✨ FAQ Spotlight: Do We Offer Telehealth?

Yes — we do! 💻✨
At Mighty Minds Therapy, we offer telehealth sessions for adults and adolescents. Whether you’re in Colorado, Nevada, or Indiana, you can access compassionate, trauma-informed care from the comfort of your own home.

Online therapy can make it easier to:
🌿 Stay consistent with therapy while juggling work, school, or parenting
💬 Access specialized trauma and play-based care even if you live outside major cities
🪞 Build emotional resilience and healing wherever you are

You deserve flexible, quality care that fits your life — not the other way around.

📲 Learn more or get matched with a therapist today at mightymindstherapy.com

10/21/2025

✨ How does healing happen through play? ✨

Play isn’t “just play.” It’s how children speak the language of their nervous system.
When words aren’t enough, play activates the parts of the brain that store emotion and memory—helping kids process, regulate, and grow.

💫 In Play Therapy, children externalize their experiences in a way that feels safe and natural.

💫 In EMDR, the brain reprocesses stuck trauma memories so they can be integrated instead of re-experienced.

💫 Together, Play + EMDR create powerful pathways for resilience, regulation, and healing.

At Mighty Minds Therapy, we combine neuroscience and play to help kids, teens, and families adapt, heal, and grow. 💜

💭 What’s one way you’ve seen a child use play to express something deeper?

Share your thoughts below — we love hearing your insights and stories. 🌈

10/14/2025

✨ The Power of Play Starts with You. ✨

Becoming a Registered Play Therapist™ isn’t just about completing hours—it’s about transformation. 💜

Play therapy supervision is more than oversight; it’s a collaborative journey of growth, reflection, and connection. Together, we’ll nurture your confidence, strengthen your clinical intuition, and explore how play can unlock healing for the children you serve.

As an RPT-Supervisor, I’m here to guide, support, and challenge you to grow into the therapist you’ve always wanted to become—because when you thrive, your clients do too. 🌱

📩 Begin your supervision journey: alyssameyer@mightymindstherapy.com
🌐 Learn more: www.mightymindstherapy.com

10/07/2025

🌊 Understanding Grief: Why it Comes in Waves

Grief doesn’t follow a straight line — it ebbs and flows like the tide. Some days feel calm and manageable; others feel like you’re being pulled under by a wave you didn’t see coming.

From a neuroscience perspective, this fluctuation happens because grief activates both our emotional and stress-response systems. When something reminds us of the loss, the amygdala and limbic system light up — bringing feelings of sadness, anger, or yearning to the surface. Over time, our brain begins to adapt and integrate the loss, allowing moments of calm to return.

Both states — calm and overwhelm — are normal and healthy parts of the process. 🌊💜

At Mighty Minds Therapy, we help children, teens, and adults navigate these waves with compassion, body-based tools, and trauma-informed care. Healing doesn’t mean forgetting; it means learning how to float again.

💬 Learn more at mightymindstherapy.com

09/30/2025

🌿 Parenting is beautiful…and exhausting. Between school runs, endless laundry, and the constant needs of little ones, finding time for yourself can feel impossible. But here’s the truth: self-care doesn’t have to be an hour-long bubble bath or a weekend getaway.

✨ Self-care can be micro moments—10 seconds of breathing before walking into your child’s room, noticing your nervous system cues when you’re overwhelmed, or simply reminding yourself: I’m doing my best.

In this carousel, we’re sharing realistic ways parents can care for themselves—without needing extra time:
💜 Micro moments you can weave into the day
💜 Meeting your body’s basic needs
💜 Recognizing nervous system cues
💜 Practicing self-compassion (parenting yourself, too)
💜 Asking for help before burnout hits

👉 Remember: Caring for yourself isn’t selfish—it’s the foundation that allows you to show up for your kids with patience and presence.

💬 Which of these tips feels most doable for you today? Drop it in the comments—we’d love to know what helps you recharge!

🔗 Learn more at www.mightymindstherapy.com
🧠 Offering therapy for children, teens, and parents in Colorado (in-person & online)
📍 Serving Denver, Wheat Ridge, and across the state

✨ Save this post for the hard days & share with another parent who needs this reminder!

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11180 W 44th Avenue #201
Wheat Ridge, CO
80033

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Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5:45pm
Sunday	8am - 5pm

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+13035782049

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http://www.mightymindstherapy.com/

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