Prioritize and preserve your connection with your children through genuine communication while avoiding developmentally inappropriate details.
Parenting Resources – The River & Arrow
Real parenting resources for real parents. Parenting well can be stressful in an increasingly chaotic world. How do we maintain wellness while managing all that’s demanding our attention? Is there a way to support the development of good people without turning our children into the center of a tiny bound to collapse in on itself world?
Acta non Verba
To act well is better than to say well. While words can feel good, words initiate, not culminate, good relationships.
5 Keys to Connect with Teens
Take-aways and practical tools for real world parenting. This seminar style meeting affords Q&A support for participants.
Decisions Decisions
Will you help pick the book cover for my soon-to-be published best-seller? Voting is open until 2/27/25. I know it’s short, but these things have a long run before they are hot off the press. Please let us know your favorite! Joyful Journeys Counseling was opened to support Central Texans with professional mental health care …
Trauma Informed Center Certified
It only took four years, but the founder of JJC finally completed the Trauma Informed Certified application and was certified at the start of 2025. This means our office has skillfully crafted practices and physical space to ensure the highest level of care for our team and clients.
January 2025 MomJunction Article
How and can couples reconnect after emotional distance? A simple self-imposed Q&A might work like *magic*. You can only change YOUR behavior.
Bee Family
Author Unknown This story was found online and is shared without a known author. Honey Collection Casualty My dad has bees. Today I went to his house and he showed me all of the honey he had gotten from the hives. He took the lid off of a 5 gallon bucket full of honey and …
Runner Up Best of Austin 2024: When Not Winning Is Winning
It can be hard to lose. I wonder if you can relate to the idea that it might also be hard to win? Joyful Journeys Counseling went through THREE rounds to finally succumb as second runner up for Best Mental Health Professional 2024 in Austin, TX. Nomination Round First, JJC was nominated in August as …
The Best Counseling Session Ever: Why Talk Therapy Still Has a Place in Austin’s Mental Health Care Scene
Talk therapy could be scorned for it’s long-term and seemingly indefinite trajectory. Discovery is my method for clients who need articulation support.
