Venting Your Feelings Isn't Enough
Research suggests that venting might make you angrier, but a process called pendulation might actually decrease angry feelings.
View ArticleThe Deep Dark Hole of Depression
Depression is scary to some and familiar to others. But everyone knows how easy it can be to fall into the depression hole. What we all need to realize though is that regardless of whether we fall in...
View ArticleMotivation in Education, Therapy, and Parenting
Vengeful parental fantasies often take the form of protecting the child from invented or exaggerated external threats.
View ArticleHarnessing the Freedom to Choose Success
Arms folded in front of her, Jana tried to remain calm in the face of a challenge from her parents and me. Joan and Ron, successful professionals who had grown up in the drug scene of the 1970s, were...
View ArticleAre You Having a Relationship with an Adult Coloring Book?
As of this writing, five of the top 30 titles on Amazon’s best-seller list are adult coloring books. With over 2000 titles out there and rising, the phenomenon of adult coloring-within-the-lines just...
View ArticleWhy We Use Drugs: The Power of Addictive Tendencies
Addictions are a hotel; they are not home but can remind people of home so powerfully that they won’t easily abandon them without knowing where their real home is and how to get there.
View ArticleGarner, Affleck, Marital Therapy, and Divorce
The tabloids exploded with curiosity and innuendo of terrible trouble once Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner were discovered going to a marital therapist. Now with a pending divorce, people’s worst fears...
View Article7 Ways To Mitigate Self-Doubt
Are you struggling with self-confidence? Learn how to overcome negative thinking and live to your fullest potential. Here are seven tips to mitigate self-doubt and create a new path to renewed confidence.
View ArticleUnderstanding and Working with Flashbacks-Part Two
Focusing on the clinical strategy of actually using a flashback experience to therapeutically “re-story” a traumatic event in an effort to help clients resolve it and deepen their healing.
View ArticleWhat Happens in the Shower May Not Stay in the Shower
Experiencing your shower in a different way might change your day.
View ArticleSeparation Anxiety: The Great Imitator, Part 4
You’ve been waiting for it! In the grand finale of this series Dr. Stepita discusses treatment option for canine separation anxiety.
View ArticleThe Psychology of Repression
Repression is a well known Freudian concept, written about by both Sigmund and daughter Anna. The central question is how and why this process occurs and whether it is essentially healthy or unhealthy?
View ArticleUndecided
Darla has it all. She is brainy, beautiful, sexy, and successful. At the ripe age of 33 she is worth 200 million dollars. She owns a chain of medical spas with top plastic surgeons who offer numerous...
View ArticlePsychiatric Drugs Are False Prophets With Big Profits
The underling theory of somatic psychiatry is that the source of human struggle is considered to be the brain itself, rather than the person. Treatments that follow from this simplistic, mechanistic,...
View ArticleThe Magical Healing Power of Caring & Hope in Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy works at least as well as drugs for most mild to moderate problems and should be used first. A good relationship is much more important in promoting good outcome than the specific...
View ArticleNinety Minute Therapy Sessions
Psychtherapy sessions, like other intense encounters, must have a length that satisfies all parties involved.
View ArticleInside Inside Out (No Spoilers!)
If you want someone to know what you’re feeling, they’ll need the story, not just the headline, and certainly not just which section of the paper it’s in.
View ArticleA Service Dog Stops an Autistic From a Self-Harming Meltdown
A remarkable video shows a service dog coming to rescue a woman from an autistic self-harming experience
View ArticleThe Role of Physical Therapy in Treating Chronic Pain
I work with a team of experts to deliver an integrated treatment program for those suffering with chronic pain. Our diverse group includes counselors, physicians, nurses, physical therapists and...
View ArticleYou Have an Inner World: So What?
From Pixar’s recently released animated film Inside Out to the Netflix original series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, the idea that we each have a lively, complex emotional inner world is hot, hot, hot!...
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