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Online therapy offers great benefits.Life in the time of Covid-19 - by Therapion- Can Hypnosis Help With Depression? - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2010 from Alfred BellantiThe article “Hypnosis in Treating Symptoms of Major Depression” by Michael Yapko was recently republished in the Australian Journal of Clinical Hypnotherapy & Hypnosis after having appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. The article outlines some of the current treatments ...
Views: 3360(2 votes) - Can Therapy Help You Change? - by Submitted on Nov 27, 2010 from Darlene LancerIs it possible to truly change? Does therapy help? Many people have turned their lives and fortunes around, while others spend years trying to change with or without therapy, but never seem to progress. What makes the difference? Certainly, there are skilled and unskilled psychotherapists. ...
Views: 2071(2 votes) - Can You Love Too Much? - by Submitted on Mar 12, 2015 from Darlene LancerConventional belief is that we can never love too much, but that isn’t always true. Sometimes, love can blind us so that we deny painful truths. We might believe broken promises and continue to excuse someone’s abuse or rejection. We may empathize with them but not enough with ourselves. If we ...
Views: 1508(1 vote) - Can Your Dreams Become True? - by Submitted on Oct 09, 2011 from Christina SponiasThe impression that our dreams are wish fulfillments is based on Sigmund Freud’s method of dream interpretation. He concluded that dreams are wish fulfillments after analyzing various dreams and relating them to the dreamers’ lives. Freud observed that those who are hungry had dreams ...
Views: 1417(1 vote) - Cbt Therapy Is Proven The Best Depression Treatment And Anxiety Therapy - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2011 from Dr. David PurvesAnxiety and depression appear to be disturbingly common around the world. Some mental health experts are calling depression the plague of the 21st century, and for good reason. This condition affects millions of people all over the globe, and its effects can be devastating. Depression and ...
Views: 1113(1 vote) - Child Welfare and our Youth - by Submitted on Apr 01, 2011 from Stewart JosephIt is no secret that the Child Welfare System needs to change their policies when it comes to fathers involvement with their children, how to effectively find proper placement for the children, and it seems to me that instead of creating positive change for their organization they tend to ...
Views: 2284(1 vote) - Christmas & Depression - by Submitted on Dec 21, 2012 from John AllanChristmas and depression Christmas is a time of the year, when depression is likely to occur. Some authorities report that the rate of suicide is highest around this time of the year. So why would this be, when Christmas is supposed to be such a wonderful time? When we gain an ...
Views: 1751(1 vote) - Cinema Therapy in Counseling and Psychotherapy - by Submitted on Oct 03, 2016 from Randi FredricksCinema therapy is a modern therapy technique where therapists use the films as a tool in therapy. Some therapists think that cinema therapy can have a positive influence on clients suffering from a wide variety of psychiatric disorders including anxiety disorders like PTSD and OCD, depression, ...
Views: 1550(1 vote) - Clarity of Purpose - by Submitted on Dec 02, 2011 from Gayle White Raven CrosmazClarity of Life’s Purpose Thirty years ago I decided to write a book about my life story, a book about my incest and abuse and how I started to heal, by first sharing my story with another person my husband. I then felt that I had to get my story out to even more people; it was festering ...
Views: 1359(1 vote) - Clinical Depression - My Experience with and the Effectiveness of Client Centered Therapy - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2011 from Dave KanofskyWhen first diagnosed with clinical depression in 1986, I did not want to talk to anyone, and I do mean anyone, about my emotional issues. That included my wife, parents, relatives, and friends After I was told that I should go to a therapist for treatment I didn't want to do that either. I ...
Views: 2473(3 votes) - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Medications - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Eric RyanIf you have an anxiety disorder, a basic question that you may ask yourself is: “How do I get better?” If you happen to bring this up to your doctor, they are very likely to prescribe you a drug without even mentioning the most effective, scientifically validated treatment around: Cognitive ...
Views: 1344(1 vote) - Combining Psychotherapy with Complementary and Alternative Therapies - by Submitted on Sep 03, 2016 from Randi FredricksDr. Randi Fredricks, Ph.D., LMFT San Jose Counseling and Psychotherapy (408) 264-3082 We are astoundingly resilient beings. The body can heal itself; from the smallest cut to life-threatening illness. Our mental health can be healed in the same manner. But just as we sometimes need the help ...
Views: 2062(2 votes) - Communication Through the Body - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2012 from Susan Schwartz, Ph.D.Surprisingly communication is not words alone. It is comprised of a confluence of ways of being oneself and of being together, physically and emotionally. It speaks volumes the way we approach our partner, the air we exude and whether we say anything or not, the totality of the atmosphere we ...
Views: 1488(1 vote) - Comprehensive Care for Adolescents in Fullerton - by Submitted on Aug 08, 2025 from Chiranjit RoyAdolescence is an important stage where emotional welfare forms future development. Fullerton Adolescent Psychiatric Care Service provides tailor -made treatment plans to help deal with mental health challenges. These services focus on creating a supportive environment where teenagers can feel ...
Views: 96(1 vote) - Consider The Marriage Counseling and Family Therapy For Strengthening Family Ties - by Submitted on Dec 09, 2011 from M. W. DoaresMarriage and family counseling, therapy is not a new term for people anymore. Stress and pressure that people go through every day in order to improve the competitive environment, the amount increased over time. Nobody lives a perfect life, is moving smoothly, without any worries. People face ...
Views: 810(1 vote) - Control and Worry: How Psychotherapy Can Help - by Submitted on May 07, 2012 from Michael SalasIn order to help people understand the basis of their anxiety, it is important to make sense of the role that control plays the cycle of fear and worry. When people are trying to understand why they contend with worrying about specific things or situations, or why they worry about most things in ...
Views: 1610(1 vote) - Coping with Critics - by Submitted on Oct 12, 2015 from Tina TessinaNo one likes to be criticized, fairly or not. It’s always difficult to deal with, and it can hurt. Because I’m a writer of books and columns, and because I’ve lectured, appeared on radio and TV, I am sometimes recognized in public. I’m glad I’m not more ...
Views: 1363(1 vote) - Coping with Seasonal Affective Disorder - by Submitted on Sep 16, 2013 from Jason VermilionSeasonal affective disorder, otherwise SAD in short, is considered a state of depression fuelled by the particularities typical for each of the four seasons summer, autumn, winter and spring. Quite simply experiencing an inappropriate mood thus being unable to adjust for the seasonal change that ...
Views: 1573(1 vote) - Counseling Couples With Codependency - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2020 from Randi FredricksSometimes codependents have associations with partners that are not addicts or alcoholics. Just how can this happen? Generally, the codependent is maturing in your house with some type of disorder or addiction. They develop and meet somebody that's not really a medication addict or alcoholic and ...
Views: 1315(2 votes) - Couples Counseling: A New Relationship And Partnership In Writing - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2011 from Daniela RoherMany years ago, maybe fifteen or more, Daniela and I both attended a small gathering in Phoenix, Arizona, for professionals interested in deeper approaches to psychological issues. As I recall, this event focused on the father and daughter relationship. Daniela and I ended up sitting next to ...
Views: 1310(1 vote) - Couples Therapy With Trauma and Abuse Survivors - by Submitted on May 25, 2012 from Roni Weisberg-RossWe all come into relationships with past issues. Trust, ability to be intimate, anger management, mental and physical health limitations and childhood trauma are among the most common. Each issue colors, although in a different way, how we deal with current stressors and disagreements. This ...
Views: 1757(1 vote) - CranioSacral Therapists - Are You Giving Potential Clients a Bureau When All They Want Is A Rose? - by Submitted on Sep 27, 2010 from Sharon DesjarlaisI once dated a funny, charming man who scared the bejeezus out of me. On our first date he gazed into my eyes and asked to know everything about me. Uncomfortable, I spent most of our lunch gazing at my salad. Not one to give up too soon, I agreed to a second date. The day after that ...
Views: 1127(1 vote) - Create the Life you Deserve - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2012 from Kay HoldsworthCreate the Life you Deserve to Live What would gaining more inner-confidence give you? How could feeling more confident improve your life? Are you ready to really go for it? To take a good long, hard look at who you are? To not just skim read through this article, but to actually do the ...
Views: 1134(1 vote) - Creating Healthy Relationships - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2015 from Julie Roberts, Ph.D.When you expect to get the love you didn’t get as a child from your partner, you are stuck in the pattern of hope and struggle that you cannot win. This is a pattern that is created in childhood that seeps into our relationships (as most patterns do). The pattern comes about because the love we ...
Views: 1750(1 vote) - Creativity and Madness, Redux, 2012 - by Submitted on May 15, 2012 from Paul HoodIn May, 2008 I wrote an article focusing on the down side of creativity tied to mental illness. Since then I have worked with many more creative people both as a therapist/counselor and in my volunteer involvement with the Cultural Council of Park County, CO and (helping start) the River Canyon ...
Views: 1441(1 vote) - Cycle of fulfillment, how we get our needs met - by Submitted on Apr 27, 2012 from Bruce DicksonCycle of fulfillment, how we get our needs met How we nourish ourselves and get our needs met Cycle of fulfillment from Body-Mind Centering: Yield > push > reach > take hold (grab) > and pull in Julie Motz' Hands of Life encouraged me to look up several topics I had not explored in ...
Views: 2997(1 vote) - Daisy's Depression - by Submitted on Nov 04, 2011 from Cristina MardirossianDaisy, a 16 year old high school student, was referred to me by her school. According to her school counselor, Daisy was hospitalized recently for suicidal ideation and needed to be seen for her depression. When Daisy walked into my office, the first thing I noticed was all of her piercing. She ...
Views: 1811(1 vote) - Dear Dr. Romance: AA only goes so far - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2015 from Tina TessinaDear Dr. Romance I am 13 years sober through the 12 steps of AA, but I haven't been to more than one meeting in the last 2 years, after making 3 a day for the 1st yr. and averaging 5 a week for the next 4 years! AA only goes so far. They do not tell you that. If you are ...
Views: 2297(1 vote) - Dear Dr. Romance: Can you refer me? - by Submitted on Aug 11, 2015 from Tina TessinaI read your book How To Be a Couple and Still Be Free several months ago and re-read it recently. I would love to receive more one on one help. Do you have anyone you could refer me to? Thank you for your help! Dr. Romance ...
Views: 1284(1 vote) - Dear Dr. Romance: How can we find low cost counseling? - by Submitted on Mar 31, 2020 from Tina TessinaDear Dr. RomanceI am in a relationship of a year and 3 months. My girlfriend Phyllis and I have a constant communication problem that we want to address.Neither of us are currently working. I do get unemployment but my bills out weigh my income. Do you know how we can find low cost ...
Views: 844(1 vote) - Dear Dr. Romance: I like the feeling of getting cut - by Submitted on Feb 20, 2019 from Tina TessinaDear Dr. Romance: is it normal to like the feeling of glass cutting your skin?I like the feeling of getting cut.......this isnt good is it?... Dear Reader: You're right --it's not good. What it means is that you are emotionally numb, and looking for sensation to feel alive. The ...
Views: 916(1 vote) - Dear Dr. Romance: I seem to ruminate all day about myself - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2016 from Tina TessinaDear Dr. Romance: I live in Scotland and I think we are quite backward when it comes to mental health issues. I have spoken to 2 therapists now about my obsessive thinking, both of whom seem strangely perplexed by what I perceive to be quite a common problem. I seem to ...
Views: 1327(1 vote) - Dear Dr. Romance: Is quitting the right thing to do? - by Submitted on Sep 20, 2017 from Tina TessinaDear Dr. Romance: I need your advice. at my workplace when I was hired one of the colleague asked me what is your age I remember casually I said I am 38 ,I did not even had a hint of what was going on. after a month people were celebrating some bodies birthday and then I came to know that ...
Views: 1359(1 vote) - Dear Dr. Romance: It really makes sense to me - by Submitted on Aug 29, 2018 from Tina TessinaDear Dr. Romance: I have been reading your advice at your website. I like what you have to say, and it really makes sense to me. I would like to tell you that you have helped me without even meeting. I have been thinking about meeting with a therapist for a while, and have tried in the past, ...
Views: 1013(1 vote) - Dear Dr. Romance: What is wrong with me? - by Submitted on Jul 06, 2018 from Tina TessinaDear Dr. Romance: What is wrong with me? Angry, sad, blah? It's 5 am and i'm still awake. i'm 29, single (i don't mind), i go to school, an ok job, pets. i'm not starving, as long at there's a roof over my head i'm good to go. so many things i really want to do. i get into it then i don't ...
Views: 1179(1 vote) - Defining Moments, Insights and Affirmations that Help Us Survive Abuse - by Submitted on Nov 09, 2010 from Stephanie AltFor those who have grown up in less than ideal families subjected to one or more forms of abuse, some describe a defining moment that lifts them up and out of what feels like living hell. An intuitive insight or an amazing event creates a breakthrough clearing an emotional escape route towards ...
Views: 2332(1 vote) - Depression is Treatable - by Submitted on Oct 20, 2010 from Dr. Mark AgrestiDepression usually starts out simple. For my patient, Cindy, for example, it began with down days during her first semester in college, when she wouldn’t get out of bed. She did not leave her apartment, wore sweat pants all the time, stopped doing her hair and makeup, gave up her spin class, and ...
Views: 2685(1 vote) - Depression: A Risk Factor for Suicide - by Submitted on Nov 18, 2010 from Diana Weiss-WisdomLosing a loved one to suicide is devastating for family, friends, and can reverberate through a community. We wonder if we should have seen the signs and if there was anything that we could have done to help them. In the United States today, suicide is the eleventh most common cause of death. ...
Views: 1915(1 vote) - Depression: Are Women More Depressed? Know The Facts! Depression Treatment In Pune, Mumbai - by Submitted on Oct 13, 2021 from Calida RehabDepression: Are Women More Depressed? Depression is a serious mental disorder that makes the patient lose interest in the activities they like. These people live sad and stressed life. It goes beyond the episodes of anxiety or bad mood. Depression is rather a chronic mental illness that can ...
Views: 797(1 vote) - Did You Grow Up Too Fast? The Myth of Premature Maturity - by Submitted on Sep 01, 2013 from Jennifer Harvey SallinThe little girl with no needs. The little boy who takes care of mom. Premature maturity, is in fact, no escape from having needs or needing to be taken care of. It is not an escape from being a child, and it is in fact, not often maturity at all. Premature maturity is something else more ...
Views: 2033(1 vote) - Divorce and Its Effect on Children, Part II - by Submitted on Feb 08, 2011 from Cheryl GowinThis article is the second in a five part series of articles that looks at divorce and the children involved in the divorce. This article provided a discussion on the effect of divorce on children. The divorce rate stands at 50% of all marriages, effecting more than 1 million children in ...
Views: 5179(1 vote) - Divorce Counseling for People in Denial - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2011 from Deborah HainesFor those that are dealing with divorce, they may very well be expecting to possess a flood of feelings and be surprised after they do not. Other individuals might not possess a flood of emotions and lack concern about their emotional emptiness in regard to dealing with divorce. You will ...
Views: 1134(1 vote) - Do you know what Loving Yourself Really Means? - by Submitted on Apr 14, 2012 from Lisa Phillipsdidn’t. I thought loving myself was basically treating myself to a night out with friends or buying myself a hot new pair of shoes. To be honest, it took me quite a while to really understand the whole concept of ‘loving myself’ and it was only then did it really start to have a profound ...
Views: 1828(1 vote) - Do You Love a Narcissist? - by Submitted on Mar 18, 2013 from Adam BlumMany of my clients fall in love with narcissists. It’s pretty easy to do. Narcissists often are extremely charming, bright, and attractive. I call them “shiny”. Around them we can feel excited, more alive, entertained, and flattered that these shiny people chose us. While narcissists ...
Views: 1619(1 vote) - Does Your Marriage Therapist Pass This Test? - by Submitted on Dec 02, 2011 from Susan HeitlerHow do you assess whether your marriage therapy is just taking up time and money or genuinely helping you and your spouse? Most folks in marriage therapy are uncertain as to what to use as a measuring stick. Whether or not the therapist is “a nice person” is not sufficient. Would you take ...
Views: 1206(1 vote) - Domestic Violence: What It Is--Part One, in a Series of Six - by Submitted on Aug 02, 2011 from Gayle Joplin Hall“When I used to hear stories about men beating up their wives, I figured the wives were cheating around. I never, ever, heard my father raise his voice to my mother, so this was foreign to me. What goes on behind closed doors is someone’s own business, right?” – Dr. Gayle J. Hall, (my thoughts ...
Views: 1853(1 vote) - Dr. Romance on Grief: From Surviving to Thriving - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2015 from Tina TessinaDr. Romance has had many clients who are grieving, and wrote this to help. None of us wants to think about it, but the standard definition of a totally successful relationship is the old, traditional "til death do us part." Any time we love, whether it’s a life partner, a dear ...
Views: 1450(1 vote) - Dr. Romance on Ten Things People Don't Know about Therapy - by Submitted on Dec 29, 2020 from Tina TessinaDr. Romance writes: I recently had a first session with a client who said, about halfway into the hour “Wow. I like you. I’m surprised.” I laughed, but I knew what the client meant. As a psychotherapist in private practice, I encounter a lot of people who waited far too long to come in for ...
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