blog – Mona Klausing, LMFT

TikTok and Mental Health https://monaklausing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-03-31-at-5.06.16-PM-2.png 999 250 Mona Klausing, LMFT Mona Klausing, LMFT April 1, 2023 April 1, 2023

TikTok and Mental Health

Author: Mona Klausing TikTok and Mental Health Recently, our team has noticed an uptick in clients discussing mental health issues and diagnoses that they first learned about on TikTok. The rise of mental health content on the social media platform has skyrocketed during and since…

Celebrating Milestones https://monaklausing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/pexels-analogicus-6958793.jpg 1000 250 Mona Klausing, LMFT Mona Klausing, LMFT January 18, 2023 January 18, 2023

Celebrating Milestones

Author: Mona Klausing Dear Clients, Happy New Year. We hope that you have enjoyed quality time with your loved ones during the end of the year and that you are starting 2023 with renewed energy and optimism. Our practice is now in its 7th year…

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Expanding our Team

Author: Mona Klausing Our team continues to grow and we are humbled by the trust that our clients place in us to support their life decisions and help them navigate the challenges they may be facing. We are also so grateful for the patience of…

Narrative Impressions and Perspectives https://monaklausing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/pexels-hasan-albari-1141678.jpg 1000 250 Mona Klausing, LMFT Mona Klausing, LMFT April 17, 2022 April 1, 2023

Narrative Impressions and Perspectives

Author: Melda Baysal Walsh Narrative Impressions and Perspectives “What is Narrative Therapy? Are you telling stories?” – Yes, indeed. Storytelling is one significant therapeutic tool in Narrative Therapy which was developed by Michael White and David Epston in the 1980s. Through the telling, re-telling and…

Who are you? https://monaklausing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/pexels-magda-ehlers-613431-2.jpg 1000 250 Mona Klausing, LMFT Mona Klausing, LMFT April 17, 2022 April 17, 2022

Who are you?

Author: Melda Baysal Walsh Who are you? Many of us will probably jump to the most readily available identifiers to answer this question, such as our name, age, and occupation. I would like to reflect on this question more to extend and deepen our perspective…

What do the 2020s have in store for you? https://monaklausing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/birds-maldives.jpg 1000 250 Mona Klausing, LMFT Mona Klausing, LMFT February 16, 2022 February 16, 2022

What do the 2020s have in store for you?

Author: Mona Klausing What do the 2020s have in store for you? As we move closer to the two-year anniversary of the California lockdown (March 16, 2022), my family has been in some reflection about what we have learned from the past two years cut…

The Immigrant Dilemma: Who to Be, Where to Go? https://monaklausing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Globe-image.jpg 1000 250 Mona Klausing, LMFT Mona Klausing, LMFT January 1, 2022 April 17, 2022

The Immigrant Dilemma: Who to Be, Where to Go?

Author: Melda Baysal Walsh The Immigrant Dilemma: Who to Be, Where to Go? My intention with this blog post is to acknowledge and validate the questions of “who to be?” and “where to go?” and explore the idea that these questions might be never ending,…

The Importance of Natural and Seasonal Nurturing https://monaklausing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/nature-scene-1000.png 1000 250 Mona Klausing, LMFT Mona Klausing, LMFT October 30, 2021 October 30, 2021

The Importance of Natural and Seasonal Nurturing

Author: Melda Baysal Walsh The Importance of Natural and Seasonal Nurturing With a deep appreciation for the inevitable ties between humans and nature as a system, I would like to raise an awareness for our need to connect to nature as it poses a valuable…

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Desis and Therapy

Author: Mona Klausing Desis and Therapy One of my formative experiences as a grad student studying to be a therapist more than a decade ago happened at my very first therapy conference in San Francisco. I was so excited to travel to a professional event…