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Veronica Ashwal, LMHC
About Veronica
Veronica Ashwal is a licensed mental health counselor who enjoys working with children adolescents and adults. She tailors her approaches to your unique goals, blending cognitive behavior and solution focused techniques. She has concentrated her clinical experience to working with individuals for the treatment of depression, anxiety, and trauma. Additionally, Veronica conducts therapy in both Spanish and English. Veronica also works with children and families with innovative play therapy techniques. Her background working as a prinicipal for behaviorally challenged students adds to her clinical insights with children. Veronica is committed to providing a safe, nurturing environment for patients.
- American Counseling Association
- Excellent Academic Achievement Award
Articles written by Veronica
Dealing With Grief
By Veronica Ashwal, LMHC
The grief from the death of someone deeply loved cannot be mastered or conquered. You can learn to live with your great loss; there will be healing and health and yes, even joy again. But there can never be full "recovery" or a return to an untroubled past.
As the years go by, life has a way of dealing it's pain and challenges to everyone. And the longer you live, the greater your chances of being hit by a major grief. And there is no easy way out or quick cure for it. Such is life.
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Relaxation Techniques for Stress Relief
By Veronica Ashwal, LMHC
The body's natural relaxation response is a powerful antidote to stress. Relaxation techniques such as deep breathing, visualization, progressive muscle relaxation, meditation, and yoga can help you activate this relaxation response. When practiced regularly, these activities lead to a reduction in your everyday stress levels and a boost in your feelings of joy and serenity. What's more, they also serve a protective quality by teaching you how to stay calm and collected in the face of life's curveballs. You can't avoid all stress, but you can counteract its negative effects by learning how to evoke the relaxation response, a state of deep rest that is the polar opposite of the stress response.
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New Year... New Behaviors!
By Veronica Ashwal, LMHC
Every child grows at an individual pace, but research shows that a child's first three years are the most important time for learning. Family members are a child's primary teachers, consistent source of care and comfort, and most effective advocates. Many opportunities for teaching and learning occur throughout the day as family members interact with a child. Family members can use their typical activities and routines to encourage a child's functional development, meaningful skills and independence.
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Play Therapy
By Veronica Ashwal, LMHC
More and more, people are realizing the power of play and humor in promoting positive relationships and mental health. Play therapy is a type of psychological, educational, and developmental intervention that is designed to help children grow up as happy and well-adjusted as possible. It involves the use of play to communicate with children and to help children learn to solve problems and change their negative behaviors. It can also involve the entire family. Play is the primary way that children learn about the world, understand how different things work, express their thoughts and feelings, develop their physical skills, develop mental skills, as well as develop effective social skills and bonds.
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Childhood Obesity
By Veronica Ashwal, LMHC
Childhood obesity effects the entire family! It is caused by eating too much and exercising too little. The solution is eating healthier foods and increasing physical activity, but it'll be tough for your child to do it alone. The most effective way to treat -- and prevent -- childhood obesity is...
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