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Author » Tessa Kinsey, LMFT

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Community Care as Revolutionary Self-Care: Mental Health & Community in Practice

August 7, 2025

Has your therapist ever encouraged you to focus on self-care? Typically, self-care refers to the things we do to maintain our health, like nutrition, exercise, rest, and going to therapy…

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Internal Family Systems Therapy: What You Need to Know

October 21, 2021

Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) helps us understand the mind as a collection of different “parts.” Each part has its feelings, roles, and ways of interacting. This approach shows that…

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