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Tia Planta Hiring as Business Blossoms
Anchor Therapy Now Registering for LGBTQIA+ Teen Group
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nchor Therapy is now registering for its upcoming LGBTQIA+ Teen Virtual Group, which will be held Tuesdays from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m. for 12 sessions, beginning September 14. The group is limited to eight members, first come first serve. Registration closes on September 7. According to Courtney Glashow, a psychotherapist and the owner of Anchor Therapy, the LGBTQIA+ teen group is the most popular one that the Hoboken practice offers. “If you know a LGBTQIA+ New Jersey teen, ages 13 though 17, who needs some extra support, then this group is for them,” she says. Led on video by psychotherapist Lauren Mandebaum, the group will cover topics including coping skills (stress and anxiety management); social skills (peer relationships, dating, making friends, peer pressure); self-esteem (empowerment and confidence); and identity (by providing a safe space to discuss gender and sexual identity).
he tiny greenhouse is thriving at Tia Planta, where owner Shayla Cabrera and her team offer plant consultations and troubleshooting and even act as a personal shoppers, buying plants for clients and delivering them to their home or office. At the 150-square-foot kiosk in Jersey City, shoppers can get advice on caring for, rehabbing and styling everything that’s green and growing. Tia Planta has a plant-care video library, and it also hosts workshops in Plant Parenting 101—or, as Cabrera describes it, “small, hands-on, in-person COVID-safe workshops to empower you to be a poppin’ plant parent.” Cabrera is growing her business too, with plans for an online shop. She’s actively seeking to hire a fifth team member. “Our ideal candidate is someone who has extensive knowledge and love of houseplants, is high energy and has flexible availability,” she says. “They must be comfortable helping at workshops, with plant installs and holding down the kiosk. We will need someone with tight inventory-management skills as well. Side note: All employees get a sick discount on our inventory.”
Cost: $75 per session. New Anchor Therapy clients require a $255 parent/teen intake. To sign up or for more information, visit AnchorTherapy.org/groups.
Location: 722 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ. For more information, call 862-579-0649 or visit TiaPlanta.com. To apply for the job, send a résumé to green@tiaplanta.com.
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Neurology Partners Offers IV Therapy for Migraines
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New Tumbling Studio Opens in Uptown Hoboken
ome 50 million Americans suffer from chronic headaches or migraines. At Neurology Partners of Hudson County, Vinod Kapoor, M.D., and Ashish Kapoor, M.D., offer infusion therapy to provide on-the-spot relief from hard-to-manage headaches. “Infusion therapy for headaches is an alternative treatment that uses an IV to deliver specific medications that treat headaches to the body,” says Dr. Vinod Kapoor, a Hudson County neurologist since 1996. “While similar treatments can be offered by emergency rooms, seeing a neurologist for headache infusion therapy allows you to obtain effective care right when you need it.” Infusion treatments are delivered slowly through a needle, typically into a vein with an IV bag. At Neurology Partners, treatments are administered by a registered nurse with more than 20 years of experience in a clinical office setting, and supervised by Dr. Ashish Kapoor, a Hudson County neurologist since 2013. It generally takes an hour or longer for the treatment to start working, he says. Neurology Partners also administers infusible disease-modifying drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat multiple sclerosis and MS flareups, acute vertigo and acute back pain.
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Location: 631 Broadway, Suite 3, Bayonne, NJ. For appointments or more information, call 201-823-2880 or visit NeurologyPartnersNJ.com.
Location: 1416 Willow Ave., Hoboken, NJ. For enrollment or more information, email Devon Flores at Tumblelab@gmail.com.
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evon Flores, who’s taught tumbling classes for more than 10 years in Hoboken, with hundreds of students each season, is opening a new tumbling studio Uptown this month. Enrollment is now open for Tumblelab’s recreational tumbling program, which begins September 13. Flores says she’s passionate about sharing “the love and power of gymnastics” and the satisfaction and joy the sport breeds. “Gymnastics is a lot more than skills,” she says. “It’s a direct line to building work ethic, self-confidence, social skills, strength and coordination.” In addition to her decade of experience teaching inside a gym, Flores has also taught kindergarten. She uses many of her classroom techniques in her teaching style at the studio, and she says parents are drawn to her program because of her experience with children and innate love for her work. Tumblelab’s recreational program is designed for children ages 3 through 15. The program teaches the fundamentals of the multidisciplined sport, with the main focus on individualized progression, learning and improving skills, and building confidence, Flores says. “Our instructors demonstrate best practices to improve coordination, body awareness and flexibility,” she says. The studio space is designed for work on floor tumbling, stretching and conditioning. It features a gymnastics-carpeted floor, tumbling mats, airtracks, floor beams, climbing rope and similar equipment.
