Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. This awareness month can be difficult for many survivors and suicide prevention advocates. The mental health community has often communicated half-truths, or misinformation related to suicide prevention. Many...
Gender Diversity In Tweens With Oak Reed, Ph.D.

Gender Diversity In Tweens With Oak Reed, Ph.D.

It’s a subject our kids are more knowledgeable and open-minded about than most of us adults are… Today we’re talking gender diversity.  Gender Identity develops around the age of 2-3, if not earlier. We’re observing others, we learn gender norms from society and our...
Pandemic-Related Grief With Jesse Dice, LCSW

Pandemic-Related Grief With Jesse Dice, LCSW

Pandemic-related grief, we’re all experiencing it in our own way. Today, Virginia Family Therapy’s very own Jesse Dice is on the Pod to tell us all about the how and why. Why are we still grieving at this stage of the pandemic? How is this grief impacting where we are...
How To Talk To Your Kids About Adult Drinking

How To Talk To Your Kids About Adult Drinking

Talking to your kid about your own drinking behavior often asks you to get very vulnerable as a parent. Being vulnerable is important for us too, and that’s exactly what we do in today’s episode. We have an open and vulnerable conversation about how to do exactly...