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How to Ask for Sex: Speaking Love
Part of the Better Sex Series In the movies, there’s no asking. Two individuals lock eyes, draw closer, and gracefully remove their clothes. It seems effortless – like it’s scripted or something. While this may be a beautiful goal, the problem is that we aren’t always...
Making meaning out of birth trauma: Why “healthy mom, healthy baby” isn’t all that matters
Presentation by Kelsey Nimmo, MA, LLMFT, LLPC, CD(DONA), RYT Part of the Skip the Rush Hour Series A third of women describe their births as traumatic and yet we hardly ever talk about it. Come listen to Kelsey Nimmo discuss what it means to have a traumatic birth...
Increasing Intimacy: Getting to Good Sex
Part of the Better Sex Series Throughout all of my work with couples, I continue to be surprised at two things. No one seems to know how to talk about sex. And as if that weren’t bad enough, no one seems to know what good sex is. Once I started noticing these two...
GR Therapy Group and Dégagé Ministries Join Hands
As an organization that is committed to supporting Grand Rapids and our surrounding communities, GR Therapy Group is proud to announce our recent collaboration with Dégagé Ministries. Dégagé delivers services to 400-500 patrons a day, offering hope to homeless and...
Increasing Intimacy: I Need More Foreplay
Part of the Better Sex Series So you’ve started thinking about what turns you on and what turns you off. You’ve even learned the breaking news that anything can be foreplay. And now you’re thinking: Wow, I really wish my partner knew this stuff. It certainly helps to...
Secrets for a Loving Relationship: 4 Ways to Want More Sex
Part of the Better Sex Series It’s not rocket science and it doesn’t need to be a secret. Maybe the problem is that your partner doesn’t seem to want sex as much as they used to. Or perhaps you never really feel in the mood but you have sex anyway because your partner...
Mental Illness Awareness Week
The Complications of Mental Health Stigma and How to Work Against Them In 1990, Congress officially established the first week of October as Mental Illness Awareness Week. This gives those of us in the mental health community a reminder to re-ignite the public’s...
Parenting for Strong Self-Esteem from Birth to College
Tuesday October 10, 2017 From 5:30pm to 6:15pm The most challenging period of our lives might be the time we spend raising our children. A few things about this time stand out as almost universal truths: 1) At any given moment we are doing the best we can as parents....
Understanding and Appreciating the Adolescent Brain
Tuesday September 12, 2017 From 5:30pm-6:15pm Common words associated with adolescence often include: argumentative, raging hormones, moody, uncommunicative, immature, risk-taking, and irrational. While we must acknowledge a certain amount of truth in using such words...
Understanding Binge Eating Disorder
Tuesday, August 8th, 2017 From 5:30pm-6:15pm Minimized, misunderstood, and too-often under-acknowledged, Binge Eating Disorder (or BED) only recently began gaining public recognition just 4 years ago after first obtaining the status of clinical diagnosis in the DSM-V...