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Newtown Family Therapy Now Accepting Insurance For Psychotherapy

May 15, 2017 By Ben Nash Leave a Comment

Newtown Family Therapy Now Accepting Insurance For Psychotherapy

Newtown Family Therapy is now accepting the following insurance providers for our in-office psychotherapy:

  • Husky Medicaid
  • Anthem Blue Cross & BlueShield

Filed Under: Blog, Psychotherapy Tagged With: insurance, psychotherapy

Newtown Family Therapy & Wellness Featured in the Newtown Bee

May 15, 2017 By Katie Nash, LCSW Leave a Comment

Newtown Family Therapy & Wellness Featured in the Newtown Bee

Newtown Family Therapy & Wellness was recently featured in the Newtown Bee. The article covers the news about our additional services (acupuncture and massage therapy) as well as our expanded space. You can read the full article here:
Newtown Family Therapy & Wellness Broadening Services In Expanded Space.

Filed Under: Acupuncture, Blog, Family Therapy, Massage Therapy, Online Therapy, Psychotherapy, Wellness Tagged With: acupuncture, massage therapy, online therapy, psychotherapy, therapy

How Do We Deal With Grief?

May 7, 2017 By Rebecca Velasquez, LCSW Leave a Comment

How Do We Deal With Grief?

I think about my 99 year old grandmother who passed away a year and a half ago. She and I had a deep love for each other and would always joke that we were kindred spirits. I could see the spirit that was beyond her eyes- ageless and genderless. (If anything, inside she was an 11 boy considering the practical jokes she played!) I imagined the grief would overcome me and be endless and that was not the case. When she passed away, I kept reading Rumi’s poem The Guesthouse visualizing grief as a visitor knocking at the door. This guest would knock randomly and unexpectedly too, as grief often comes in waves. I could choose to avoid my guest but he would just knock louder until I would let him in. So I welcomed him and surrendered fully to the experience of grief. Through that experience, I awakened to the truth that pure love exists beyond time and space and that my grandmother now actually lived within me. Little things that I noticed that she would do, I caught myself doing, like making up songs to sing and bringing humor more fully into life…the best parts of her were within me. When I really grasped that not only in my head but in my heart, the grief disappeared. She’s as close to me as my own beating heart. So if this is a time of grief for you on any level, how can you allow yourself to let go into the grief and trust the process of healing? Perhaps its giving yourself 30 minutes or an hour per day to really be present to the grief. What qualities of your loved one can you now see in yourself? How can you channel that grief energy into a way to honor their life?

Filed Under: Blog, Family Therapy, Grief, Psychotherapy, Stress Tagged With: depression, grief, stress, therapy

Attachment on the Spiritual Path

May 7, 2017 By Rebecca Velasquez, LCSW Leave a Comment

Attachment on the Spiritual Path

How can we live in this world and not of it? Various spiritual traditions discuss this idea of attachment in different ways. I ask myself what is my biggest worldly attachment? The answer: my husband Harold plain and simple (sorry kids, I love you but you’re not first in regards to attachments). We’ve been soulmates together since I was 16 so its hard to remember not sharing my life with him. What causes us such suffering in life is not people, but our attachment to people or things. Detachment is an inward letting go- not of the person necessarily, but of the attachment to that person. I often say to myself, I could lose my house or be bankrupt, but I’m ok as long as I have Harold. Yet with attachment, there is no freedom or ability to love even that person… or anyone else for that matter freely and purely. With detachment some things may fall away that are meant to, otherwise our relationship to them becomes transformed more authentically in the process. I had a realization two weeks ago that I’ve been attached to my business-feeling that that is where I’m meant to be because I LOVE it and I never feel like I work in a single day. Working with my clients is a pure joy for me. Yet through my attachment, what I couldn’t see was the larger picture… my loving husband and life partner’s business was suffering and I was ignoring that when I knew I had tools to help him. When I really saw this, I realized that I was attached to how supporting and giving service to others had to look. I chose to make a shift in my business to allow for me to be able to support my husband in a new way in his company. In just a short time what a difference that shift has made for him professionally and for both of us in our marriage. Do you have the courage today to identify your biggest worldly attachment? Just becoming aware of this can loosen the clenching grip we have on others and in the world.

Filed Under: Blog, Family Therapy, Psychotherapy, Wellness Tagged With: therapy

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