Author Archives: Kim Marohl (she/her)

Quality sleep is essential to improving and maintaining your mental health. You are less vulnerable to depression, emotion dysregulation, anxiety, and stress when you are getting good sleep. Establish a routine with as consistent as possible sleep and wake times. It can be really tempting and draining to vary your sleep cycle during the week.Continue reading “10 Proven Sleep Tips (3 min read)”

Anger is a very normal emotion that we all feel. It is useful to seek treatment when anger is interfering in functioning: at work or school, in relationships, with self-esteem. The good news is controlling anger and regulating emotions is treatable with some proven strategies. There are many solutions that will all help reduce angerContinue reading “Anger Management (2 min read)”

5 Ways to Regulate Using DBT Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a treatment that helps people feel more regulated and specifically related to emotions. This is particularly useful for those that are more sensitive or reactive to emotions. Goals of emotion regulation in DBT Understand emotions (know what emotions you are experiencing and what emotionsContinue reading “Emotion Regulation Therapy (3 min read)”

Wise Mind Counseling offers parent coaching in group and individual sessions (virtual or in-person). Parenting is a highly rewarding and difficult task. It is natural to feel pride in parenting skills, as well as disappointed or discouraged at times. Parent coaching offers supportive and non-blaming techniques in order to improve capabilities. Mindful Parenting Mindfulness hasContinue reading “Parent Coaching: Definition and Benefits (4 min read)”

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder can be very debilitating for people to live through- could be hours and hours of compulsions in a day. Obsessions and compulsions are ever changing and OCD is tricky. Finding a provider that offers an evidence based treatment is necessary. Let’s review OCD – it is full of obsessions (unwanted thoughts andContinue reading “3 Ways to Treat OCD (3 min read)”

There are four modules in adult DBT skills training: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. Each module has a set of skills that are learned over the course of 6-8 weeks. View highlights from these DBT skills modules: Simple and Colorful Productivity Infographic by Kim Marohl

I’m here to tell you about the highly effective treatment called Dialectical Behavior Therapy: the goals of the treatment, who it treats, and how it works.  DBT is a treatment that has been around since the 1970’s and at that time was most widely known to treat Borderline Personality Disorder and highly suicidal people.  ItContinue reading “What is DBT? (4 min read)”