Starting Pointe Therapy

10/24/2021

📣📣 TEEN MENTAL HEALTH ROUND TABLE 📣📣

Join me, school counselors, high school students and to discuss adolescent mental health & parenting support.

06/08/2021

Join WE GP, Pflag Grosse Pointe, and other local community organizations to celebrate Pride in the Pointes!

03/15/2021

When stuck in a problem sequence, it's hard to see any other way but "as it's always been." It's important to not only check in with the person we are "doing the dance with" but with ourselves to establish regulation, autonomy, and balance.

Q: I feel like I fight the same battles with my spouse and kids over and over again. What can I do to stop the cycle and help improve our communication? A: Think of a dynamic in your home that

02/22/2021

Introducing our new Podcast Series on Family Dynamics with Ellen Miller! Explore partner relationships and how we interact with children at various ages and stages as Ellen talks with local therapists Amanda Be, Kaitlin Arnold, and Mary Beth Garvey. https://soundcloud.com/user-661379018

02/16/2021

We've gone audible! I feel so grateful to have partnered with The Family Center of Grosse Pointe and Harper Woods to discuss relational dynamics for individuals, couples, and families across all stages.

Check out our first episodes featuring Patty Sunisloe, Amanda Be with Supportive Counseling Services, and Kaitlin Arnold, LPC

If you are interested in me and another local expert covering a specific topic, drop your ideas in the comments below!

Listen to Ask the Expert Podcast Series | SoundCloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create.

02/09/2021

"This is giving parents hope as well who may not be as familiar or understanding or really trying to grapple with or wrap their heads around what the future could look like for their children. Being able to read these very intimate stories about people they may see in magazines or on the red carpet — or they may not have heard of but who are leading companies — they realize: that could be their child."

A conversation with celebrity fashion stylist and author Andrew Gelwicks

02/03/2021

Join PFLAG GP for a very special live Zoom conversation with celebrity fashion stylist, author and speaker Andrew Gelwicks on Thursday, Feb. 11, from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Free tickets to this exciting virtual program are available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/guest-speaker-andrew-gelwicks-author-of-the-q***r-advantage-tickets-138162982199?aff=efbneb.

Born and raised in the midwest, Andrew worked at GQ and Teen Vogue before beginning his own venture as a celebrity fashion stylist. Andrew's portfolio includes rising and seasoned stars including Catherine O’Hara, Michael Douglas, Tommy Dorfman, KJ Apa, Barbie Ferreira, and the Q***r Eye cast, among many others.

His debut book, The Q***r Advantage, is a compilation of interviews with some of the world's most successful leaders in their fields — from Billie Jean King to Lee Daniels to Barney Frank to Margaret Cho — on how their q***r identities have positively impacted their careers and lives. Published by Hachette, it was named one of the "most anticipated books of fall 2020" by TIME.

Andrew has been profiled in Forbes, The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, People, Harper’s Bazaar, and WWD, among others, and was featured on the OUT100 in 2020. He lives in New York City. You can find out more about Andrew at http://www.andrewgelwicks.com/.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact pflaggp@gmail.com. We look forward to seeing you online Feb. 11th!

10/08/2020

Thank you to Mary Anne Brush and Grosse Pointe News for featuring me as this week's Pointer of Interest! I am grateful to be back in the community that shaped me as a person, as well as a clinician.

Ellen Switalski Miller learned her place in the world growing up in Grosse Pointe Park as the youngest of four. This early interest in family systems led to her future decision to return to the

09/22/2020

Great article featuring Dr. Alexandra Solomon:

“These explosion-filled fetes and the reactions to them speak to a bigger idea that we’re whiffing on — and a possible solution to the damage and destruction of a gender reveal party gone wild. It’s the opportunity to redefine masculinity, fatherhood, and parenthood.”

Experts have their theories about why gender reveals cause wildfires, and kill, maim, and burn people.

09/08/2020

Best of luck to all the Grosse Pointe & metro Detroit schools starting tomorrow! Let’s walk into this school year leading with compassion, understanding, and patience with ourselves and others.
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New experiences tend to cause conflicting emotions to occur simultaneously. Nervous and excited. Uncertain and hopeful. Frustrated and mindful. That AND is so important! It validates our experience and makes room for all the feelings.
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This year will provide opportunities for us to learn academically and emotionally. Take time to focus on both. From the teachers and admin workers, to the students, and the parents: we support you and can do this together. 💪🏼📚✏️

08/14/2020

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-08-13/coronavirus-pandemic-causing-anxiety-depression-in-americans-cdc-finds

The CDC survey found that essential workers and young people have been more mentally affected by the pandemic.