If Weight Loss Is Your New Year's Resolution

As I see the New Year's Resolution posts I just want to remind you - female AND male - that you are bigger than the number on the scale. I support health and wellness, but please make sure workout goals are just that. Anything overboard to look a certain way or gain acceptance is unhealthy. And if that's the case, strive for self-acceptance this year 💚💛💙

- written by Nakya Reeves, LMFT. I am a therapist and owner of a private practice where my main focus is working with families on communication issues, especially the parent-teen relationship. I also utilize PhotoTherapy techniques in my practice, which integrates bringing in photos that the client has taken or collected as a part of the therapy process. I can be contacted any time at csolutionstherapy@gmail.com

PhotoTherapy Around the World: Eating Disorder Treatment Center

PhotoTherapy around the country: Creative Solutions Therapy incorporates photography as a therapy method and I love to spotlight others doing the same: a treatment center for eating disorders in California is helping women to increase self esteem and address body image issues through the use of photography 📷💛

"Robin Ruth of San Francisco is providing Castlewood’s female clients with a means of improving their body image and increasing their overall feelings of well-being. She is accomplishing this with ecofemography, her original therapy model, which involves photographing women in natural settings..." 

Visit my website www.csolutionstherapy.com for more info on Creative Solutions' use of photography in therapy. Ideal clients would be someone dealing with issues such as trauma, self esteem, or anything they would be initially hesitant to open up about. Clients DO NOT have to be an artist, have experience with photography, or have to own a 'fancy' camera in order to benefit from PhotoTherapy. It is less about the act of taking the photo, and much more about the conversation that comes about after discussing memories, thoughts, feelings, judgments, etc, that a photo may elicit.

#Selfies - Using the Self-Portrait in the Therapy Room

If you are not aware, "selfie" is a term used in popular media to describe a picture that is taken by a person of that person. Selfies are fun - we see pictures of people holding their phones in just the right position to capture a new outfit, an exciting moment, new hairstyle, or whatever. Selfies show the world what we are doing, and how good we look doing it! It's probably the most common way of sharing photos on Instagram, Facebook, SnapChat - you name it. You see the word everywhere - articles, blogs...I think there is even a show called Selfie (though I'm not sure if the same definition applies). So how can this phenomenon, commonly used for entertainment, be helpful in a therapeutic way?