Nurturing Connections: A Guide on How to Help Your Daughter Make Friends
Helping your daughter make friends is less about arranging her social life and more about building the skills and the settings where friendship can happen on its own. Give her…
Why Group Coaching Works
By Pam Willsey Group coaching works because it does something one-on-one sessions can't: it lets girls grow alongside peers facing the same challenges. In a structured, psycho-educational group, participants build…
Coping with Post-College Depression: Finding Your Path Forward
READING TIME: 3 minutes Graduating from college is a significant milestone, but it can also be a time of uncertainty and emotional turmoil. It's not uncommon for individuals to experience a sense…
How to Calm Your COVID Stress
By Pamela Willsey, LICSW, BCD, PCC A recent trend I’ve been seeing with several of my clients is stress from a mandated quarantine from a recent COVID exposure or positive…
The Essential Piece You Need This Holiday Season
By Vanessa Calagna & Pam Willsey awe /ô/noun1. a feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder. With the winter holiday season in full swing, and the various decorations,…
5 Ways How to Set Healthy Boundaries in Close Relationships
Teach people how to treat you by letting them know what you’ll tolerate and what you won’t. Boundaries are the space between you and another person, and setting them is…
What Is the Stress Level of Our Emerging Adults?
Strategies for both parents and their children of all ages. By Pam Willsey, Willsey Connections Although most Americans have experienced elevated stress levels due to COVID-19, an October 2020 American Psychological Association…
Managing Your Mind During the Post-COVID Transition
Challenges are a part of life. In 2020 we saw a lifetime of challenges. So many of us are still coping with them, even as the end may be in…
What Do Bears Know That We Don’t?
Just be. Be here now. Be present. You’ve heard all of these phrases before. Perhaps you’ve even made previous attempts at being present. Maybe you’ve just brushed the phrases off as just…
4 Easy Ways On How to Be Present
Being present is harder when your attention is split across screens, messages, and everyone who needs you. Pam Willsey, LICSW, uses a mantra a client gave her years ago: when…