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Jan 26
3 min

Understanding Empathy and How to Create More of it in Your Life

Why is it important to understand empathy? What is it and why should we care (literally)? We might feel sorry when something bad happens ...

Leandra Wills

Jan 6
3 min

7 P's to Fighting Depression

Depression is dark and oppressive. It is more than a situation that causes you to feel down for a period of time. It is a debilitating st...

Leandra Wills

Dec 8, 2020
2 min

Vicarious Trauma vs. Compassion Fatigue

Vicarious Trauma (VT) is used to describe the experience of people in the helping profession who work with someone who has experienced so...

Leandra Wills

Dec 1, 2020
2 min

Emotional Recoil

Often when my clients experience a "break-through" in session, the following week there is a difference in the way they approach and resp...

Leandra Wills

Nov 10, 2020
2 min

Trauma - Body and Brain

I can almost taste the concrete in my mouth. That split second of going over my bike handle bars has stayed with me much longer than the ...

Leandra Wills

Oct 27, 2020
2 min

Panic and a Pandemic

She felt her world closing in. She lived her life with a set of actions that made it so she could function in it. She hand sanitizer in h...

Leandra Wills

Oct 20, 2020
2 min

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence is the ability to recognize one's own feelings and the feelings of others. It also includes the ability to disting...

Leandra Wills

Oct 13, 2020
2 min

Can't catch a wink?

Are you waking up at night? Are you having a hard time falling asleep? Is your lack of sleep, and increased anxiety about sleep making it ha

Leandra Wills

Sep 13, 2020
1 min

Therapy. Think Well.

Welcome to the launch of my therapy practice. We are all in this place of finding new normals. As a therapist, I am here to help you navi...

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