by Kendra Doukas | Mar 23, 2020 | All Posts, Kendra Doukas, Parenting Advice
For school-aged children, creating structure might be helpful. Try to mirror the structure of their typical school day. For example, you could have a schedule in 45-minute to one-hour increments. This is usually a good amount of time for school-aged children to be...
by Kendra Doukas | Feb 26, 2020 | All Posts, EMDR and Trauma Recovery, Kendra Doukas
Trauma has always been a focus of my clinical work and I dealt with it long before I received training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. Prior to having training in EMDR, I found trauma work to be challenging and slow. It was as if my...
by Kendra Doukas | Feb 10, 2020 | All Posts, Family Dynamics, Healthy Relationships, Kendra Doukas, Parenting Advice
In the spirit of Valentine’s Day I am inspired to write about explaining the abstract concept of love to children. Love is an idea which is so different from most of the other things children encounter. Nearly everything is a child’s world is shared—”If we have...
by Kendra Doukas | Nov 22, 2019 | Adulting, All Posts, Family Dynamics, Healthy Relationships, Kendra Doukas
Rule #1: Practice healthy boundaries. Make sure your partnership acts as a united front and that you agree on the necessary boundaries between your couplehood and your family. It might be much easier to throw your partner under the bus than to confront your family...
by Kendra Doukas | Oct 16, 2019 | All Posts, EMDR and Trauma Recovery, Healthy Relationships, Kendra Doukas
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Domestic Violence is now more often referred to as partner abuse or intimate partner violence. Rates of intimate partner violence are staggering. I worked for many years at an agency that supported survivors of...
by Kendra Doukas | Oct 2, 2019 | All Posts, Kendra Doukas
October is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. Many parents feel very silenced and isolated in their loss, but the likelihood that you know someone who has lost a pregnancy or infant is quite high. Paradoxically, our society tends to ostracize the...
