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Family Check-Ins

Family Check-ins should not be hard! Check-ins are great tools to use when you have kids that are old enough to express how they are feeling. Check-ins also allow parents to continue fostering bonds with their children.

Try out some of these techniques to check in with your family on a Friday!

1) family group chat

2) family game night

3) family pizza night

4) family craft night

5) our moment's card game

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Johns Creek and Alpharetta Counseling (#JCAC) is a warm and family orientated counseling practice in Alpharetta, Ga. We offer online cou...

Anxiety Series Catch Up

Finance and Anxiety The fifth episode of the Anxiety series has been created in order to explain the relationship between anxiety and finances. Our owner and clinical director of JCAC had set up a discussion with a financial advisor. The Financial advisor that we have been so lucky to have the conversation with is Debbie Dorman. With her help, we are able to give you the tools to help manage anxiety around your finances. Johns Creek and Alpharetta Counseling (#JCAC) is a warm and family orientated counseling practice in Alpharetta, Ga. We offer online counseling services in the states of Georgia and Florida. We offer in-office counseling service at our Alpharetta office which is conveniently...

Anxiety Series: Holiday Stress

In this video, Erica Gregory, Clinical Director of JCAC, and Ginny Vose, Counselor and Trauma Specialist with JCAC, talk about why the holidays can cause so much anxiety. The holiday season is often referred to as the most wonderful time of the year. However, for some of us, it can also be the most anxiety-provoking time of the year. In this video, Erica and Ginny provide the tools to deal with poor boundaries, navigate politically charged conversations, manage social anxiety, handle difficult personalities, and navigate trauma triggers related to the holidays. Take note of what speaks to you in this video. We hope it can shed light on why it is so hard to go ...

Missing Family During The Holiday

The holidays is a wonderful time of the year when family and friends, are able to get together and share moments. However, due to the pandemic, some individuals can't participate in seeing their loves ones due to the fear of exposing their family to the virus. The virus being a major obstacle for some families, is not the only obstacle. There are other obstacles such as family members being separated due to military deployments, passing, distance, financial, and even the lack of a support system due to personal beliefs and de...

Holiday Crafts

By: Chloe Harper, Clinical Intern with JCAC

The holidays are vastly approaching and self-care can take many different forms! This first craft is one of many of our count down to the holidays! This craft will help add a little mindfulness to your day and to remind yourself of how amazing you are! Or it can turn into a cute house decoration! Mindfulness can be practiced just by taking time for yourself and doing this craft :).

What you will need:

option 1: mindfulness jar

-1 Mason Jar

- Scrapes of colorful Paper

- yarn or ribbon

Option 2: house decoration

- mason jar

- Christmas holiday decoration of some sort

- sharpie

- wine bottle lights or jar lights ( Dollar tree has them for a do...

What Things Are You Grateful For?

By: Chloe, Clinical Intern with JCAC

How To Find A Therapist

By: Chloe Gabrielle Harper, Clinical Intern at JCAC

A question that is pretty common is “How Do I Find A Therapist?”. You are sitting in your bed and you realize that it is time to make a change, so you talk to your friend and he or she tells you maybe you need a therapist. You do a wild google search and words come up like “mental health counselor”, “clinical counselor”, “mental health technician”, “telehealth mental professional”, “psychiatrist”, and “psychologist”, and the list continues! You have asked you, friends, you have gone through 8 pages of google sites, and side links; a...

How To Teach Your Child Mindfulness

By: Chloe Harper

Mindfulness is something that everyone should learn how to do, no matter the age. Mindfulness is a tool that can allow any individual to regulate their own internal functioning and emotions. That sounds practical for an adult to learn, but what about a child? A lot of parents ask what can mindfulness do for their child. David Gelles writes in the New York times about the benefits of mindfulness for children; the simplest practices help a child to learn how to be gentle, accepting, reducing anxiety, increasing happiness, and creating early habits.

When to begin?

Parents can begin as early as infancy when teaching mindfulness to their bab...

Freedom Isn’t Free

Blog by Ginny Vose, MA, MeD, Counselor with JCAC

Today we remember that horrible day when America was attacked on our own soil in such a senseless act of terrorism. I want to take time to thank all of our first responders, fire fighters, police officers, and our men and women from each branch of the military for volunteering to put yourself in harm’s way to keep us all safe. I can only imagine the high cost that you have or still are paying for me to be able to live as I do. You have my utmost respect and full support. You are always in my heart and in my prayers. Because you run toward danger each day, you are subject to being traumatized. You can even develop ...