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Parenting During a Pandemic: Discipline and Development
When the COVID-19 pandemic started a couple of months ago, my children were really misbehaving. I was sure the bad behavior was a result of their worlds completely changing. As a therapist, ... Read More
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How Maternal Mental Health Impacts a Child
Maternal mental health was not always on the radar of things to address for many behavioral health providers in our nation. In 2020, the world view has shifted, and the mental health of ... Read More
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Preparing for the Mental Health Impact of COVID-19
Mental health is a growing concern after the stresses and losses of the COVID-19 pandemic. For many, the pandemic feeds stress over health and finances. It can also exacerbate the challenges ... Read More
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder – 5 Signs and When to Get Help
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is estimated to impact 3.9 million Americans who have been formally diagnosed with OCD. Individuals who seek proper treatment for this anxiety disorder often ... Read More
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Mental Health Awareness Month: Health Care Workers’ Mental Health and COVID-19
May is Mental Health Awareness Month–a time to spread awareness of mental health challenges and share helpful resources to promote well-being for all. The COVID-19 pandemic could ... Read More
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Can Telemental Health Care Help You Manage Anxiety?
If you live with serious or persistent emotional distress related to an anxiety condition, you may have given some thought to how professional support might help you manage your symptoms. ... Read More
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Mental Health Parity: Are We There Yet?
Mental and physical health are inextricably linked, yet healthcare systems have historically treated them as fundamentally different. This plays a key role in mental health stigma, but ... Read More
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Child Abuse During the COVID-19 Pandemic
About five children die every day in the United States from abuse and neglect, with thousands more experiencing abuse. Many child advocates have predicted that during the current COVID-19 ... Read More
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How Does Online Couples Therapy Work?
Romantic relationships demand a lot: each partner must find a way to support and nurture the other’s needs while identifying and asserting their own needs. When one person in a couple ... Read More
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Birth Trauma and COVID-19
Pregnancy and giving birth can come with a wide range of joys, challenges, and fears. People who are giving birth during the current COVID-19 pandemic are also navigating unexpected circumstances ... Read More
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COVID-19 and Substance Abuse
According to the National Survey of Drug Use and Health, most adults use or have used at least one drug. More than 87% of adults over the age of 26 report using alcohol during their lives, ... Read More
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How Telemental Health Care Can Help You Through COVID-19
As the novel coronavirus COVID-19 continues to spread, much of the world is under some sort of lockdown or restrictions. In the United States, many governors have issued official guidance, ... Read More
Therapy News Headlines
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GoodTherapy Participates in 2019 Out of the Darkness Walk
On a brisk October Saturday morning at Marathon Park in Olympia, Washington, GoodTherapy team members participated in the American Foundation for Suicide ... Read More
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GoodTherapy Participates in AFSP’s 2018 Out of the Darkness Walk
In observance of National Suicide Prevention Month, GoodTherapy team members participated in the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s (AFSP) ... Read More
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9 Out of 10 Caregivers for People with Dementia Get Inadequate Sleep
Alzheimer’s disease is a serious problem in the United States. According to the Alzheimer’s Association: Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause ... Read More
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Study: Many Youth Seeking Therapy Want to Discuss Spirituality
Regular attendance of religious services has declined with time, according to data from Gallup. Yet many Americans still say spirituality is an important ... Read More
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Bored With Everything? Study Suggests Method for Regaining Pleasure
Boredom with life is a common complaint in therapy. That shiny new car is often less interesting a year later. Conversations with a once-exciting partner ... Read More
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How Do I Deal with Loneliness?
My life is a sad state of affairs. I have no real friends to speak of, just my cat Lula. Even she doesn't like me very much. I can't work because ... Read More
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What's the Best Way to Break Up?
I have been with my boyfriend for over a year now and I don't see a future together. It was fun for a while, but now it feels stale and unexciting. ... Read More
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Help! I Think I'm Addicted to Video Games
I work. I eat and drink. I play video games. I sleep. Then I repeat. Every. Single. Day. Three of these things are necessities, but the ... Read More
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Help! My Therapist Ended Her Practice and I Don't Know What to Do
I had been seeing my therapist for 28 years. Around March, she was unwell. This was a rare occurrence in our time together. But her viral infection ... Read More
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Help! I Have No One to Talk To
Ever since my dad died last year, I have had no one to talk to. And really, I had no one to talk to for the last three years of his life, ravaged ... Read More