Christine Laplante, LMHC

04/24/2024

Please remember that Seasonal Affective Disorder does not just happen in the colder/darker months. It can also happen as Spring awakens us. Shedding light can be just as heavy as the blanket of darkness.

04/22/2024

Going live. Now until 10am.

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04/22/2024

Here is your periodic PSA about therapy.

Therapy is not a magic wand.

There are different approaches and theoretical practice.

It’s a collaborative process.

While a good therapist can help someone resistant to “open up,” it works more efficiently if you approach the experience knowing it takes time.

At best…It’s not quick fix, it’s a progressive and layered unwinding and unraveling to uncover underlying foundational source fractures, to teach applications to address those fractures and rebuild in a stronger way that allows,
Ultimately, for sturdier expansion.

That’s the dream, anyway.

If you ARE looking for something shorter term, then it’s beneficial to pinpoint the issue you are seeking to address and find a brief-solution oriented therapist. That approach still requires you to know yourself.

04/09/2024

Tiktok is sending me this book to read and review (they send me a lot of things). I am very much looking forward to it.

Our brains can tell us all sorts of stories. I’ve learned to trust my body way more than what goes on in my head. Which is why I tend to ask a lot of clarifying questions and not assume what others are experiencing. Curiosity vs assumption is a way of life for me.

I have learned that on occasion my stomach will turn so much that I know it’s time to walk away from a situation. No amount of “self-talk” is going to get me there. No amount of understanding and attempt at empathy is going to salvage it. I don’t even need to know why it’s happening anymore. I just need to know that it is. And that’s my cue.

I remember, a few times in life, when I had to leave a job and I would curl up on my chair before I would leave talking myself into it. My stomach would be in knots. I’d berate myself because man… it was just work. There was so much I liked about it. Yada yada.

When I finally let go… my body sighed and thanked me.

So I’m curious about their take on how we tell ourselves stories and how that stands in the way of our happiness. (The premise).

03/17/2024

I will be teaching again this spring and summer and I’m booking into the fall now!! Wooohoo! Most of these classes I’ve been teaching for 15 -20 years!

~Singing through Stress (an experiential/participatory group sound healing)
~Singing through S*x (based on polyvagal theories and stimulation)
~An Integrative approach to S*xual development and Health (based on my book)
~HandPan sound healings and meditations (guided meditation, vibration, voice and handpan)
~The Art of Magic and Manifestation
~ yoga/movement collaborations
~ Don’t Be That Guy- a workshop for all genders discussing the period of Major mid-life transition in men’s lives we tend to diminish, dismiss and refer to as a crisis (which does not need to be)!
~ and More!

You can find me in NY, VA, PA, MA and MD. Let me know if you’d like me to come your way!!

02/29/2024

Good morning everyone, I am about to offer a six week telehealth series. It’s been a little while since I have and I am gauging interest.

Sessions are 6 weeks, one hour a week, $200-250 for the series.

Topics/focus are being developed but these are some ideas right now:

Relaxation and meditation- 6 weeks of a guided experience with discussion

Sound healing - specific to the needs of the group. Part experiential, part discussion

Become Integrated focused- s*xual health and development, exploring current beliefs and expanding s*xual self

A dive into the divine- experiencing and exploring aging mysteries (discusing what is really happening during mid-life transition)

I am also open to other suggestions

12/08/2023

I’m trying to figure out how to stream in multiple places at the same time (looking at OBS) on a Mac but until then…

I’m here every weekday morning.

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06/15/2022

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01/31/2022

So I did a thing the last couple of weeks as I needed some creative outlet. I finally sat down and finished the companion journal to Sacred, Not Secret: An Integrated Approach to S*xual (R)Evolution

It is live today!

Like the book it doesn’t need to be done in order. Nor do you have to have read Sacred, Not Secret. This journal is guided and asks more questions to contemplate about your s*xual health journey and how your story was created and continues to be.

Sacred, Not Secret: A S*xual Health Journal (Color) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1798497204/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_KSEJ3GATFCV7HBQFQJ0H

Sacred, Not Secret: A S*xual Health Journal (Color)

01/12/2022