by Ms. Christy | Mar 4, 2016
Acorn Education Digest March 2016 Click here to download in printable form our March Digest for 2016. It includes our schedule of events, introduces you to our newest counselor, Renee Pfeffer, and lets you look forward to our biggest month, April. Here are some...
by Ms. Christy | Mar 1, 2016
Renee Pfeffer, Licensed Professional Counselor Intern Supervised by Eren Turner, MA, LPC-S I have been married and living in the Denton area for the past 22 years where we are raising two teenagers. Counseling has greatly influenced my own personal life and I am...
by Ms. Christy | Feb 19, 2016
Acorn Education Digest February 2016 Many of you noticed we had a Holiday from digests last month. With our fabulous Facebook Party on Wellness led by Vivian Nichols, and getting back into the swing of things, we just didn’t have it in us to write. So, we are...
by Ms. Christy | Feb 5, 2016
You may ask yourself why a play therapist is writing about divorce. Surely, none of my clients are divorced. While it is true, most of my clients haven’t been married and never chose to divorce, many of my clients have been affected by divorce. In 2014, there...
by Ms. Christy | Feb 3, 2016
Communication is difficult at the best of times. But when emotions are flaring and a problem must be solved, mistakes, sometimes big ones, can happen. So in my counseling office, we make up a list of rules for big conversations. Some people have heard of them as...
by Ms. Christy | Dec 16, 2015
#1 Parenting App I’ve gotten for free! Yeah, sounds like one of those best of lists for the end of the year. But this tech app is wonderful and easy and just plain nice to have. Let me start at the beginning. My work as a therapist exposes me to a lot of...
by Ms. Christy | Dec 10, 2015
When I was a kid, Mom had an Advent Calendar where we put gifts to each other for each day of December. It also had scriptures to teach us about the Season and to prepare us to understand what Christmas was all about. I wanted to do the same thing for my family, so I...
by Ms. Christy | Dec 4, 2015
Acorn Digest December 2015 Learn about our upcoming events, read our favorite new article, and find out about encouragement vs. praise. Join us for our Facebook Parenting Party where we will be talking about how to survive the holidays with complicated families,...
by Ms. Christy | Dec 2, 2015
With the American divorce rate between 40 and 50% of marriages ending in divorce, many of us are touched by divorce during the holidays. As with many things, the first holiday with a major change can be the most challenging. There are usually lots of feelings...
by Ms. Christy | Dec 1, 2015
My two-year-old woke up too early (again!), my coffee cream had soured, I hit my head on the car door, and the house was already a mess at 8am. It’s days like this that joy is more of a choice than a feeling. On my way to take my daughter to preschool I found myself...
