Helicopter vs. Snowplow Parenting: What’s the Harm?
Are you still running your kids' lives in the background? Do you even realize you’re doing it? Maybe you edited their cover letter without them asking because the first...
The Boomerang Generation: When Moving Home Becomes a Problem
We talk to parents a lot. It’s part of the job. And we hear a variation of the same story over and over again. Junior moved out, went to college, and everything was...
Why Your Adult Child’s Brain Isn’t Fully Developed Yet
The prefrontal cortex is the brain region most responsible for what researchers call executive function: the cluster of cognitive skills that govern planning, initiating...
Somewhere Between Leaving & Landing
The phrase most families arrive at first is “failure to launch.” It mostly describes the surface: a young adult who, by most reasonable measures, should be building a...
Water Is One of the Oldest Trauma Treatments in Human History
Four thousand years before anyone used the word “therapy,” an Egyptian physician recorded the benefits of cold water immersion in a medical papyrus. The Greeks built...
What Twenty Years of Trauma Research Got Wrong About Resilience
Resilience started as a research concept describing how people adapted to adversity and then somehow got flattened into a character quality. It became something you...
The Difference Between Being Triggered & Being Wrong
Somewhere around 2015, the word "triggered" became a punchline. It got memed into a synonym for fragility, for thin-skinned overreaction, for people who needed to...
The Surprising Reason Group Therapy Works Better Than One-on-One for Some Trauma Survivors
Most people assume individual therapy is where the real work happens, and group therapy is the supplement to it. The private session with the clinician who knows your...
The Loneliest Disorder: Why Complex PTSD Gets Mistaken for a Personality Flaw
Complex PTSD wreaks havoc on your inner life. But what may be the more cruel aspect of CPTSD is what it does to the relationships around you. The ones most apt to help...
Clinical Currents: Recovery Happens Outside the Therapy Room Too feat. Lauren Roemer, MSW, LCSW-A, LCAS-A
At Momentum, clinical care shapes how we show up, how we build relationships, and how we make sense of what each young adult is carrying when they walk through our doors.