Posts by Fountain Hill
The Fawn Response: Understanding Trauma-Driven People-Pleasing
The Fawn Response: Understanding Trauma-Driven People-Pleasing Picture this: your friend asks you to borrow your car for the weekend because theirs is in the shop, and they have a lot…
Read MoreThe Power of Showing Up: Reflections from a Student Counseling Intern at Potter’s House
Working at Potter’s House this year as a counseling intern through Fountain Hill Center has been one of the most meaningful parts of my graduate school experience. Going into the…
Read MoreWhere Sunshine Meets Shadow
In a time of sunshine, mental energy can feel light and free. You drive your Jeep Wrangler with the top down. You push your feet deep into the sand and…
Read MoreWhy Human Presence Still Matters in Therapy
Face-to-face therapy offers something that AI therapy, for all its strengths, simply cannot: an embodied, mutual, human encounter in which two people share the risk of being real together. Therapy…
Read MoreBeyond the Crisis: Reimagining Therapy as Essential Maintenance
For a long time, the cultural narrative around mental health therapy has been reactive. We often wait until the “check engine” light has been flashing for months, or until the…
Read MoreCelebrating 25 years of Giving Men the Tools to Heal, Grow, and Succeed
In the 1960s, Betty Friedan described the invisible emotional pain many women carried as “the problem that has no name.” Today, many men face their own unnamed problem. While public…
Read MoreFrom Snowstorms to Stability: The Power of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
The concept of ‘dialectic’—finding truth through opposites—is central to dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). An example of a dialectic that we commonly experience living in West Michigan is the phenomenon of…
Read MoreThe Masculine Upgrade: Redefining Strength from the Inside Out
The Masculine Upgrade: Redefining Strength from the Inside Out June marks Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month – a time to reflect on the quiet Struggles many men carry and the…
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