12 Ways To Practice Mindfulness For Teen Anxiety
Guest post by Stephanie Gutzmer, Au.D., E-RYT A mindfulness practice increases your ability to regulate emotions, decrease stress, and reduce anxiety and depression. If you’re an anxious teen (or someone who loves one), it sounds like a perfect solution, right? And it is! However, mindfulness for teen anxiety can begin with some resistance, just like […]
PANDAS – One Year Later
On May 28, 2015 our blog featured a post by Life Care Wellness therapist Tiffany Tumminaro, who vulnerably shared about her family’s struggle with identifying and learning how to manage her then 6 year-old daughter’s PANDAS/PANS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptoccal/Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome), a medical condition that mimics severe OCD with physical […]
PANDAS – and Not the Cute Kind
In honor of PANDAS/PANS Awareness Day, we’re reposting this blog post by LifeCare therapist Tiffany Tumminaro, LCSW, CADC. In the past couple of months I have had an unfortunate and humbling introduction to Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal (PANDAS). It is a disorder that most of my mental health colleagues had never heard […]