Galia Collaborative

10/15/2026

Boredom and disappointment both show us something about our capacity to tolerate the gap between what we want from reality and what reality is giving us.

Consider the last time you felt deeply disappointed. Or when you felt hopelessly bored. What you did with that experience may be a small window into a pattern that's worth examining.

Did you reach for resolution? What did your emotions feels like? Did you turn on yourself? Did you seek or push away others?

What was it like to encounter the limits of what you wanted?

I'm not suggesting that these experiences should be easy, or that "health" is not struggling with them. The opposite, perhaps.

I'm suggesting that we start to move through the world quite differently when we have tools to reorient ourselves when reality is especially frustrating.

10/14/2026

Want to help kids stay connected to what they love?

In our latest blog post, Galia therapist Michelle Piven reflects on her own childhood experience to explore what can happen when kids feel defined by how they perform.

She shares how shifting our attention from outcomes to process can help kids build resilience, motivation, and genuine enjoyment, and she offers some specific and simple ways parents can put this into practice.

A thoughtful read for anyone raising, coaching, or cheering on kids.

10/13/2026

Our new Embodiment Sessions at Galia's Odessa Healing Center offer a different way to reconnect. This three-part, trauma-informed yoga therapy series uses gentle practices to help us feel more grounded, present, and at home in our bodies.

This isn't your typical yoga class, and no experience is needed!

🌿 October 17, October 24, & November 7

Join us for one session or all three. Space is limited to keep the experience small and supportive.

10/11/2026

The New York cover story hit on something we hear about all the time: youth sports are taking up an enormous amount of family life, and a lot of parents aren’t sure how well the current set-up is working.

We don’t have a simple answer. But we think it’s worth getting in a room together and talking about it.

Join Galia Collaborative and Basset Psychological Services on November 4th for For the Love of the Game, a community event.

We'll be having an honest discussion on the current culture, how to respond to setbacks and playing time, when to advocate, how to prevent burnout, and how to balance the demands of sports with the rest of family life

The conversation includes David de SIlva, Mental Performance Coach for FC Cincinnati; Emily Sweeney, former Division I athlete, longtime high school educator and coach; Dr. Andy Sweeney, child and adolescent psychologist with a growing specialization in sports and performance psychology: and Dr. Amber Stevens, clinical psychologist whose work includes parenting, relationships, and family life. Between them, they also bring the perspective of parents raising kids in the world of youth sports.

We hope that you'll come be part of the conversation!

10/09/2026

“It used to surprise me. I’d be sitting in the therapy room with a VP at a multinational company and she would describe the exact same phenomenon that I’d heard the hour before from the 17-year-old senior who’d just gotten accepted to her top choice college. Despite literal loads of accolades, they each admitted that they felt like a total fraud in their success. They knew they’d worked hard – really fu***ng hard – but it still didn’t feel like they were meant to be in the spaces they occupied. At some moment, probably soon, they’d be discovered as fakes.”

10/08/2026

“Performance is information, not a verdict on who they are.”

How do we help kids develop a genuine love for the things they do?

In her latest piece, Galia therapist Michelle Piven reflects on her own childhood experiences, the science of intrinsic motivation, and the how our well-intentioned encouragement sometimes gets in the way of kids discovering what they enjoy.

It's a thoughtful reminder for parents, coaches, and anyone supporting young people. Read Michelle's full piece: https://galiacollaborative.com/intrinsic-motivation/

10/07/2026

It's an important distinction.

10/06/2026

THE EMBODIMENT SESSIONS: A YOGA THERAPY SERIES

We’re so excited for Lauren Albarella, C-IAYT to host The Embodiment Sessions, a 3-session small-group yoga therapy series exploring the relationship between body, breath, attention, and experience.

This series may be especially meaningful for those of us who spend a lot of time in our heads - thinking, analyzing, problem-solving, trying to get things “right” - and want to develop a more direct and comfortable relationship with the body.

And this isn’t a traditional yoga class. There’s no expectation to perform poses, achieve a certain shape, or have any previous yoga experience. Instead, Lauren will guide participants through gentle movement, breath, sensation, and attention practices designed to support curiosity, presence, and choice.

The sessions build on one another, so we encourage joining us for all three when possible, but you are welcome to attend individual sessions.

Come as you are. 💛

10/05/2026

We’re growing at Galia! 🌿

We’re looking for an experienced therapist to join our clinical team, and for this particular position, we’re especially interested in someone with specialized training and experience in couples therapy or eating disorder treatment.

At Galia, we’ve worked very intentionally to build a clinical community where curiosity, collaboration, and continued growth are part of the culture. Our clinicians bring different areas of expertise and different ways of working, but share a commitment to thoughtful, nuanced care and to continuing to deepen their work over time.

We’re hoping to find someone who is excited by that kind of environment, and who wants to bring their own expertise, perspective, and interests to our team.

Know someone who might be a great fit? We’d love for you to share this with them.

09/30/2026

Really looking forward to this conversation. 📚

On October 15, our founder, Dr. Ashley Solomon, be at Joseph-Beth Booksellers moderating a conversation with Vanessa Scaringi, PhD, CEDS-C, and Kathryn Garland, LCSW, CEDS-C, about their new book, Hungry for Connection: Heal Your Relationships with Food and People in an Insecurely Attached World.

Hungry for Connection looks at our relationships with food through the lens of attachment, asking us to consider what may exist underneath. And it zooms out even further, exploring what happens in a world where so many of us are increasingly disconnected from one another, even while seemingly more “connected” than ever.

We are excited to talk with Vanessa and Kathryn about food, attachment, loneliness, nervous system regulation, diet culture, and what it means to feel genuinely nourished by our lives and our relationships.

Join us at Joseph-Beth on Thursday, October 15. We would love to see some familiar faces there. ❤️

Joseph-Beth Booksellers has bookstore and restaurant locations in Cincinnati, OH, and Lexington, KY. Whether coming in for storytime, dining at Brontë Bistro, attending an author signing or browsing the new releases, the Joseph-Beth team is happy to help and be part of the community.