Bird’s the Word Blog
Why Does My Therapist Ask About My Job, Money, and Family?
The questions about your paycheck, your family, and your friendships are not detours. They are the session.
Sins of the Father: Inherited Immigration Status
Both were innocent children. Why one discovery gets a Lifetime movie and the other gets suspicion, and what the law actually says.
Why You Keep Canceling on People You Actually Want to See
Nobody announces that their mental health is affecting their relationships. It shows up sideways, in canceled plans and reread texts and going quiet. Here is what is actually happening and what helps.
Maternal Mental Health Is Not a Mom Problem. It Is a Village Problem.
Everybody asks how the baby is sleeping. Almost nobody asks the mother how she is doing and then waits through the pause for the real answer. Written for moms and for the people standing near them.
What One Workplace Comedy Understood About Being Undocumented
He followed every rule he knew existed. What a beloved sitcom understood about discovery, detention, and the people left holding candles.
Searching for Belonging
I wasn't assessed until my thirties. The diagnosis didn't change who I was. It gave me understanding.
Nest Flicks: A Therapist's Immigration Watchlist
Welcome to Nest Flicks: a therapist tells you what to watch, and what the feelings on screen have to do with real immigration cases.
What an Immigration Evaluation Actually Is (and What It Is Not)
It is not a test you can fail, and it is not an interrogation. A plain-language walkthrough of what an immigration evaluation actually is.
Fatherless Father’s Day
A fatherless Father's Day used to mean my dad was absent. This year it means something else. He died in February, and I had to decide what to do with everything left unsaid.
My Son Came Out at 8: A Therapist’s Plea for Kindness This Pride Month
A therapist and mom on her son coming out at eight, the overlap between autism and LGBTQ identity, and a plea for everyday kindness this Pride month.
Redefining the Clipboard: Why Social Workers Make the Absolute Best Therapists
Clinical social workers are the largest group of mental health providers in the United States, delivering more psychotherapy than psychologists and psychiatrists combined. Here is why the "baby snatcher" myth is a relic, and why an LCSW's training makes them uniquely equipped to be the absolute best therapist you can find.
You're Not Broken. You're Overwhelmed. There's a Difference.
Struggling isn't a character flaw. It's a very human response to a world that is genuinely a lot right now. Here's what's actually going on, and what actually helps.
What ADHD Actually Looks Like in Women
ADHD in women rarely looks like the little boy who can't sit still. Shylah Ridgway, LCSW shares what it actually looks like from the inside.