Holidays and Sensory Overload: How to Stay Regulated When Everything Feels Like Too Much
The holiday season can be both joyful and overwhelming. Between travel, family gatherings, work deadlines, and social expectations, your nervous system might be taking in far more stimulation than it can comfortably process. At Untethered Therapy, we often remind...
Reimagining Home: Finding Belonging When You Feel Displaced
A Reflection for the Season of Connection The holidays often bring talk of home — going home, coming home, feeling at home. But for many people, that word carries complicated feelings. Maybe the place you come from no longer feels safe. Maybe the people you once...
When Trust Feels Tender: Navigating the Holidays After Betrayal
The holidays don’t pause for healing. If betrayal trauma has shaken your sense of safety or belonging, it’s okay to move gently this season. You can protect your peace, redefine connection, and show up as you are — whole, hurting, and hopeful.
When Gratitude Season Feels Complicated
The holidays can bring both connection and complexity. If family gatherings stir old patterns or leave you feeling drained, it’s okay to protect your peace. Setting emotional boundaries doesn’t mean withdrawing from loved ones — it means showing up with clarity, compassion, and choice.
You Don’t Have to Carry It All Alone
November is Men’s Mental Health Month — a time to shine light on a conversation that too often stays in the dark. For generations, men have been taught to “tough it out,” “stay strong,” and “handle it.” The problem is, no one ever told them what to do when “handling...
When the Days Grow Shorter: Caring for Your Mental Health Through Seasonal Change
As the days grow shorter and sunlight fades, many people notice subtle shifts in their energy, motivation, and mood. For some, those changes are mild — a little more fatigue, a stronger pull toward cozy nights in. For others, the seasonal shift brings more significant...
Finding Peace in Body Neutrality
At Untethered Therapy, we often talk with clients about the many ways our relationship with our body can shape our mental and emotional health. For some, that relationship has been marked by years of criticism or comparison. For others, by pain, illness, or a sense of...
Breathing Underwater: Accepting That You Are Allowed To Live Instead Of Just Survive
“May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?” ― David Gemmell In the interesting times we live in, it can be easy to find ourselves in a position where seeking beyond what we have sounds like a fool’s errand. When making ends meet is the...
Good Grief! What It Means To Experience Loss “Well” In The Digital Age
By Christina Murzynski, Clinical Mental Health Intern It has been said that loss plays an intrinsic role in the human experience. If all things eventually must end, then grief might be considered a natural response to those endings. But what constitutes a “natural”...
What Does It Mean – A Therapist’s Perspective on Expectations in Healing
By Shoshana Thaler, MA, NCC, CSAT Candidate What does it mean to be an effective therapist? What does it take for you to know that you have been successful? When your clients come to you for help, what do they expect from you? “Fix me, heal me, tell me that although I...
The Buffalo and the Cattle: Meeting the Storm
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Fractured
The following poem was written by an Untethered Therapy client, under her pen name Emberwing. The poem explores her journey from abuse and trauma through healing and recovery. This client credits a combination of EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, and...
Reading our Sexual Scripts
By Cecilia Wishneski, Clinical Mental Health Intern Think back to how you learned about sex growing up. Take a Look… Did you receive formal education on sex at all? In 2023, thirty-eight (38) states plus the District of Columbia require sex education for students in...
Sleep Like Your Life Depends On It. Because It Does.
By Becca Hovermale, LAPC, CSAT We all know that lack of sleep can leave an adolescent - or any human being for that matter - irritable, but did you know that it can also negatively impact one’s memory retention and immune function? Lack of sleep can even be linked to...
Emotions and Mindfulness: The Power of Meditation
Pause for just a moment and recall the last time someone asked you how your day was. Typically, our response to this question is quick: “Good, thanks!” or “Ugh, terrible!” If it’s a good day, we list everything positive that happened to us; if it’s a bad day, we...