Wishing everyone a very happy and safe Halloween from Booprint Mental Health 🎃 👻🧡🖤
We want to hear from you! Why do you think people avoid trying couples counseling for so long?
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👉FACT: Most married couples wait an average of SIX YEARS before starting counseling. In that time more resentment and disconnect builds up. Couples who start therapy early tend to have better outcomes. When couples seek therapy early and are committed to repairing their relationship, we promise they can build an even closer relationship than they’ve ever had 🖤
Unless someone has directly referred you to a therapist they liked, trying to find one on your own based upon the information you can find online, can be frustrating to say the least. You really can’t get a feel for who they are until you’re sitting on the couch in front of them.
At Blueprint Mental Health, we put a TON of effort into our website giving you a sincere look into who we really are, the services we offer and how we can help. Click the link in our bio to check out our site and schedule a free consult call. Like we said, if it turns out we’re not the right fit, we’ll always try our best to point you in the direction of someone who is. 💙
Blueprint was refreshed last week with a visit from Carly 🥹. Boy do we miss her here in person, and boy are we grateful she’s still on ours and our clients screens as she lives her best life in NY, while being our one and only fully virtual therapist 💜💙
we hope everyone stayed dry today and, like Charlie, is contemplating how this week can be BOTH a hard AND a good week filled with snuggles, self care and treats 🖤
📣 👏NEW POSITION 📣👏
Samantha Zelnock, LPC: Little’s Clinical Coordinator ⭐️
As a Senior Clinician with a Synergetic Play Specialty and SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) Certified, Sam is perfect for this role here at Blueprint. This position is the team clinical go-to for clients 13 and under and is spearheading the little’s program development here at Blueprint. If you (or your child) has worked with Sam, you know she’s both incredibly knowledgeable and just as much down to earth, easy to talk to, creative and naturally supportive. We can’t wait to see everything she does for the Blueprint Little’s and our team here. Please join us in CONGRATULATING her! 🥹🤩
twinning outfits, same office, both treat couples and families, both solid therapists🖤
(YES, Blueprint provides couples and family therapy!🏡)
📸: michele, courtney, charlie
The best thing is when you truly mean what you say about the quality of your business and your team of therapists. When that day comes, I truly hope we have somewhere like Blueprint she can go 🥹
we agree with all of these sentiments, little blueprinter! Boo skunks, get somewhere else! p.s: we love our clients ☺️
📸: Sam 💜 (with permission of course to share🙂)
Cognitive defusion is the ability to step back from your thoughts instead of getting “hooked” by them.
Instead of thinking, “I’m a failure,” you learn to notice, “I’m having the thought that I’m a failure.”
That small shift changes everything! Your thoughts stop acting like facts and start becoming mental events that come and go like passing clouds…or fishing lures. 😏 You don’t have to believe every thought your brain produces—you can observe it, acknowledge it, and choose how you want to respond.
You are not your thoughts. You are the person noticing them.
GUYS we have great news. After a few short weeks of Marianne being here with us, while sharing her with a higher level of care… we are stoked to announce she’ll be with us FULL TIME. 🎉🎉🎉 Charlie is just as excited as we are, please join us in our teams excitement. So many more people are about to get to work with another amazing therapist here ☺️🖤
When your building gets skunked… you stock up on candles from our local favorite shop, @evolveclothing . This one shown here is Resin and Waves and we also love their Lost Coast scent. Definitely check them out while you guys are here 🖤🕯️
“Own a business, buy a building!” they say… 🫠. Today, Deonna (seen still working like a champ with fire trucks behind her 👑) came into quite a stinky situation! HUGE thanks to Somerville Fire, Somerville Police, Somerville Rescue Squad, Somerville Public Works, Somerville Hazmat… did I miss anyone?! What at first seemed to be a possible Hazmat situation, ended up being something completely different. We had a handful of REALLY great guys here and happy to share all is clear. Not sure what we did to upset a skunk 🦨, we are sorry and please don’t come back. Luckily, Olive had SO much fun seeing all the firetrucks and playing with Deonna.🥹🚒
Sure…we’d all love to go to therapy and gain some profound insights into our lives and struggles. But sometimes we need to start with the “small” stuff that’s happening right now in the moment. The thing is…we have to first BE there in the moment.
Here, John gives us a little game that he likes to play in order to practice a bit of that mindfulness thing you here so much about, and then work on change on the most micro or micro moments you can imagine. We know it sounds kind of silly… but the same time, you can’t say it doesn’t make sense. 💙
To any parent who doesn’t know where to start, looking for some support, struggling with how to support their child… we’re here. No commitment to therapy, just a one time appointment to sit across from a blueprint therapist and ask all your questions. We may not have every answer, however we’ll do our best to point you in the right direction and provide the space to release your worries. 🖤
Anyone else out there a summer Grinch like Charlie, dreaming about sweater days and waiting for cool breezes?! 🍁Trying to validate his feelings, while also encouraging him to stay in the present moment 🙃
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(This post may or may not be influenced by Michele who is in fact a self diagnosed summer Grinch projecting her feelings on this muggy morning onto Charlie 😏)
