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Generational Trauma
Today, in 2025, we know that newborns don’t enter into the world with a clean slate. Their emotional history begins even before they are conceived. The research on generational trauma...

Sarah F. O'Brien, LCSW, LCSW-C, CCATP, CTMH
Sep 810 min read
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AI Tech for Mental Healthcare
Let’s consider HOW AI can be utilized in support of better mental health, while also considering its significant limitations and issues.

Sarah F. O'Brien, LCSW, LCSW-C, CCATP, CTMH
Jul 2810 min read
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Building Emotional Resilience
Why recognizing, naming, and understanding emotions helps build resilience

Sarah F. O'Brien, LCSW, LCSW-C, CCATP, CTMH
Apr 178 min read
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The Ugly Truth about Coercive Power
The idea underlying cognitive distortions is that these thought patterns twist or misinterpret reality and it results in emotional distress.

Sarah F. O'Brien, LCSW, LCSW-C, CCATP, CTMH
Mar 145 min read
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Cognitive Distortions are Bad for Good Leadership
The idea underlying cognitive distortions is that these thought patterns twist or misinterpret reality and it results in emotional distress.

Sarah F. O'Brien, LCSW, LCSW-C, CCATP, CTMH
Feb 264 min read
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Achievement Addiction
Status & Success meet Mindset & Mattering. Let’s discuss what achievement addiction is and how it happens.

Sarah F. O'Brien, LCSW, LCSW-C, CCATP, CTMH
Jan 314 min read
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Resilience: It's All About the Bounce Back
What exactly is Resilience? Who has it? How did they get it? Can we increase our own levels of resilience? Short answer: yes! Read on!

Sarah F. O'Brien, LCSW, LCSW-C, CCATP, CTMH
Nov 21, 20249 min read
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Consent & Choice: Important Implications for Life & Leadership
Consent is never implied, and needs to be explicitly and enthusiastically stated. Without consent there is no safety.

Sarah F. O'Brien, LCSW, LCSW-C, CCATP, CTMH
Oct 31, 20249 min read
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Unveiling Truths about the Invisible Disorder: Complex PTSD
Explaining the ins and out of Complex PTSD...and what it's like living with this invisible disorder.

Sarah F. O'Brien, LCSW, LCSW-C, CCATP, CTMH
Aug 24, 202423 min read
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How Emotional Intelligence Leads to Greater Success as Leader and Entrepreneur
5 skills to practice for increased Emotional Intelligence & why this makes you a better leader & better entrepreneur

Sarah F. O'Brien, LCSW, LCSW-C, CCATP, CTMH
Jul 22, 202411 min read
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Why It's a Good Idea to Consider Entrepreneurship if You're a Mental Health Professional...
Mental Health providers do not have safe & ethical working conditions. We deserve more value & more recognition. Consider Entrepreneurship!

Sarah F. O'Brien, LCSW, LCSW-C, CCATP, CTMH
Jun 18, 202414 min read
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Do you know how to build trust?
Trauma Informed Strategies for building trust in both professional and personal relationships.

Sarah F. O'Brien, LCSW, LCSW-C, CCATP, CTMH
May 23, 202412 min read
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Do you know how to build intimacy safely in your relationship?
How to build intimacy in healthy and safe ways
Sarah F. O'Brien
Apr 12, 202414 min read
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Disorganized Attachment and Secure Attachment at Work
How disorganized attachment and secure attachment show up in workplace settings

Sarah F. O'Brien, LCSW, LCSW-C, CCATP, CTMH
Mar 11, 202413 min read
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Anxious-Avoidant Attachment Style at Work
Recognizing Anxious-Avoidant Attachment behaviors in workplace settings

Sarah F. O'Brien, LCSW, LCSW-C, CCATP, CTMH
Feb 17, 202422 min read
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Anxious-Insecure Attachment Style at Work
How anxious-insecure attachment shows up in workplace settings...it's not all bad!

Sarah F. O'Brien, LCSW, LCSW-C, CCATP, CTMH
Jan 20, 202415 min read
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The Four Attachment Styles...and How They Affect Adult Relationships
This is the follow-up to1st blog Do you know your attachment style? Differentiating between the 4 attachment styles in adult relationships.

Sarah F. O'Brien, LCSW, LCSW-C, CCATP, CTMH
Dec 27, 202317 min read
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Do you know what kind of Attachment Style you have?
History of Attachment Theory and how we develop an Attachment Style from early relationships.

Sarah F. O'Brien, LCSW, LCSW-C, CCATP, CTMH
Nov 7, 202310 min read
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Coaching...Counseling...Consulting. What's the Difference?
This blog article outlines the differences between Counseling, Coaching, & Consulting Services.

Sarah F. O'Brien, LCSW, LCSW-C, CCATP, CTMH
Sep 13, 202319 min read
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Misconceptions of Cannabis Part 2...The Real Deal
Part 2: more about cannabis, its different properties & components, benefits of use, risks of use and some facts about cannabis & the body.

Sarah F. O'Brien, LCSW, LCSW-C, CCATP, CTMH
Aug 25, 202321 min read
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