Blog: Stress

Building Your Village: How to Create a Support System That Eases Evening Anxiety

Building Your Village: How to Create a Support ...

Patrick Aleknavicius

Parenting is both deeply rewarding and incredibly challenging. Many parents know the feeling of late-evening anxiety—when the day’s pressures resurface, and the quiet hours amplify every worry. Instead of trying...

Building Your Village: How to Create a Support ...

Patrick Aleknavicius

Parenting is both deeply rewarding and incredibly challenging. Many parents know the feeling of late-evening anxiety—when the day’s pressures resurface, and the quiet hours amplify every worry. Instead of trying...

Understanding and Overcoming Parental Burnout

Understanding and Overcoming Parental Burnout

Patrick Aleknavicius

Parenting is one of life’s most rewarding roles. The moments of laughter, connection, and unconditional love shared with your children are unparalleled. Yet, parenting is also one of life’s most...

Understanding and Overcoming Parental Burnout

Patrick Aleknavicius

Parenting is one of life’s most rewarding roles. The moments of laughter, connection, and unconditional love shared with your children are unparalleled. Yet, parenting is also one of life’s most...

Positive Coping Skills for Responding to Stress

Positive Coping Skills for Responding to Stress

Jenna Zusman

Inner Fokus offers a weekly skill-based, non-therapeutic group known as the Strong(her) Girls Group at our Laguna Beach office for girls 7 – 12 and 13 – 17 years old....

Positive Coping Skills for Responding to Stress

Jenna Zusman

Inner Fokus offers a weekly skill-based, non-therapeutic group known as the Strong(her) Girls Group at our Laguna Beach office for girls 7 – 12 and 13 – 17 years old....

10 Favorite Books Read in 2018

10 Favorite Books Read in 2018

Ashleigh Louis, PhD, LMFT, PA

At the beginning of every year, I enjoy looking back on the previous year and reflecting on what went well, what didn’t go so well, what I learned, and what...

10 Favorite Books Read in 2018

Ashleigh Louis, PhD, LMFT, PA

At the beginning of every year, I enjoy looking back on the previous year and reflecting on what went well, what didn’t go so well, what I learned, and what...

Grounding: How to Use Our Senses to Calm Stress and Stay Present-Focused

Grounding: How to Use Our Senses to Calm Stress...

Ashleigh Louis, PhD, LMFT, PA

Grounding techniques are increasingly popular approaches to coping with stress, anxiety, and other difficult and/or overwhelming emotional states and experiences. They work by reorienting the person back to the present...

Grounding: How to Use Our Senses to Calm Stress...

Ashleigh Louis, PhD, LMFT, PA

Grounding techniques are increasingly popular approaches to coping with stress, anxiety, and other difficult and/or overwhelming emotional states and experiences. They work by reorienting the person back to the present...

15 TedTalks that Offer Interesting Perspectives on Psychology and Mental Health

15 TedTalks that Offer Interesting Perspectives...

Ashleigh Louis, PhD, LMFT, PA

1. Brené Brown: Listening to shame.   2. Johann Hari: Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong.   3. Elyn Saks: A tale of mental illness – from...

15 TedTalks that Offer Interesting Perspectives...

Ashleigh Louis, PhD, LMFT, PA

1. Brené Brown: Listening to shame.   2. Johann Hari: Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong.   3. Elyn Saks: A tale of mental illness – from...

3 Breathing Exercises for Stress Management and Overall Wellness

3 Breathing Exercises for Stress Management and...

Ashleigh Louis, PhD, LMFT, PA

Diaphragmatic Breathing In general, there are two types of breathing: 1. costal (or chest) breathing and 2. diaphragmatic (or abdominal) breathing. Chest breathing is characterized by outward and upward movement...

3 Breathing Exercises for Stress Management and...

Ashleigh Louis, PhD, LMFT, PA

Diaphragmatic Breathing In general, there are two types of breathing: 1. costal (or chest) breathing and 2. diaphragmatic (or abdominal) breathing. Chest breathing is characterized by outward and upward movement...

“But, You Don’t Look Sick!” 5 Insights into Life with an “Invisible” Chronic Illness

“But, You Don’t Look Sick!” 5 Insights into Lif...

Ashleigh Louis, PhD, LMFT, PA

 “Invisible” chronic illness refers to health and/or pain conditions that significantly impair activities associated with daily living without causing the person to look particularly different from the healthy people around...

“But, You Don’t Look Sick!” 5 Insights into Lif...

Ashleigh Louis, PhD, LMFT, PA

 “Invisible” chronic illness refers to health and/or pain conditions that significantly impair activities associated with daily living without causing the person to look particularly different from the healthy people around...