Generations Psychological & Consultation Services

08/03/2026

Years ago, I worked through a blood-injection phobia by donating blood. I still don’t enjoy shots or having blood drawn, but donating blood allowed me to focus on a higher order purpose as part of an exposure technique for the phobia.

Please consider donating soon, if you are able.

American Red Cross declares its second-ever national blood supply crisis after donations fell to a four-year summer low. With type O blood critically scarce and distributions limited, the Red Cross urges immediate blood donations to help prevent delays in patient care.

07/25/2026

07/22/2026

With few exceptions, most therapists do not recommend patients go no-contact as a first option with family members. As providers, we value the autonomy of the people with whom we work and help them identify options while weighing pros and cons.

Estrangement is painful for both parents and adult children. Parents often want to defend their relationship by saying they did the best they could. They lash out in anger, calling their children selfish, and justify their behavior by saying they had it worse growing up. Adult children agonize over finding the right way to explain how they feel, desperate to be understood and met with love instead of dismissiveness and defensiveness.

Working with older adults, I have found that a lot of people don’t know how they actually feel and don’t understand what it means to love someone, especially unconditionally. It’s a really beautiful thing when a parent is able to take the perspective of their adult children, to honor the pain they feel, even if they disagree with the events as they remember them. After all, that’s what parents are asking of their adult children: to see them, to understand them, to love them anyway. It should be reciprocal.

07/20/2026

Lasting healthy relationships offer each person safety to grow, express needs, and receive feedback 💞

07/15/2026

Cool news! Based on the chapter I (Dr. Young) wrote on ageism, I have been asked to serve as a Topic Coordinator/Editor for an upcoming edition of Frontiers in Psychiatry that will focus on aging 😁

07/15/2026

Lots of people stay unhappily married out of fear of financial ruin, lost status, and stigma around divorce. Enduring years of change and challenge involves remaining curious about each other, propping one another up, self- and relationship reflection, and finding a way to communicate with love.

06/21/2026

05/29/2026

Parenting styles have certainly changed across generations, and it can be confusing to folks who grew up in a different time with a different worldview. However, I’m here to tell you: “respecting an elder (often denying abuse or tolerating extreme discomfort from someone else’s behavior) or else getting whooped” isn’t the flex one might believe.

The impact of that dynamic results in adults who aren’t in touch with how they actually feel about things. They deny their feelings to make others comfortable. They don’t feel safe verbalizing their needs to others, which causes real breakdowns in relationships. Because problems with childhood behavior were solved with physical violence, they also lack the skills to repair conflict. Thousands of older adults enter therapy for these exact reasons.

We’ve studied it. We’ve learned and implemented new ways to foster cooperation and repairing of ruptures. We’re not going backwards.

05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the human and fur-child moms out there! Our hearts go out to all the folks who can’t reach out to their moms as well ❤️