How To Help A Sensitive Child During the Holidays

Written By: Catherine Wohlwend, ACS Site Manager at La Entrada Middle School, On-Campus Counseling Program The holidays can be stressful for anyone, but if you have a child that is highly sensitive, anxious, dealing with a loss or just simply struggling, the holiday season may not be the magical time that we see curated for […]

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Anxiety: How to Help your Teen Cope

Written By: Antonina Taranova, Trainee at ACS, On-Campus Counseling Program what should parents know about anxiety? One in five adolescents may develop an anxiety disorder over the span of their adolescence. Such anxiety disorders can have a dramatic impact on the daily life of children and constitute a risk factor for more severe mental disorders […]

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Anxiety

Written By: Marcus Randolph, MFT Intern at ACS, On-Campus Counseling Program you know how mental health therapists have that popular saying? “Anxiety is dwelling or thinking too much about the future, and depression is dwelling or thinking too much about the past.” For those of us in the field of mental health, we know it’s […]

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Opinion:Destigmatize Counseling in the Palo Alto Community

Image: Cascadian Farm Source: palyvoice.com by: Lydia Barry Published November 9, 2014 Counseling at Palo Alto High School is highly stigmatized, and is a concept many students are ignorant towards. Some do not know what Adolescent Counseling Services (ACS) is or exactly what it does. “I don’t think people utilize [counseling] as much as they could,” senior […]

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