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Why Understanding Mindfulness Doesn’t Make You Mindful
As a therapist, I often hear from clients that they’ve read mindfulness books or downloaded apps. I ask if they find them helpful. Usually, there’s a micro-gap between my question and ... Read More
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6 Ways the Limbic System Impacts Physical, Emotional, and Mental Health
The limbic system is a set of brain structures that plays a role in emotions, particularly those that evolved early and which play an important role in survival. Research has linked the ... Read More
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Psychiatry 101: How to Become a Psychiatrist
A psychiatrist is a medical doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating mental health conditions such as depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, ADHD, and eating disorders. Many, but ... Read More
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Shock and Testing: Two More Twists on the Road to Grief Recovery?
In her seminal book, On Death and Dying, psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross identified five distinct stages of grief. Kübler-Ross worked with dying people and designed her model to describe ... Read More
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Repressed Memory Recovery: Useful Tool or Misleading Practice?
Repression describes the unconscious act of burying distressing memories or feelings. Once buried, these memories are no longer a part of a person’s awareness, unless they someday retrieve, ... Read More
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Isolation and Loneliness: What’s the Difference?
Some people use the words “isolation” and “loneliness” interchangeably, but this does not reflect the true meaning of each term. Isolation may lead to loneliness, ... Read More
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Is It Still Gaslighting If My Partner Has Asperger’s?
Author’s note: It is always a challenge to choose genders when writing about neurodiverse couples. Here I use the example of an autistic man and a neurotypical woman. I don’t mean ... Read More
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Is There a Shortage of Mental Health Professionals in America?
INFOGRAPHIC TEXT: IS THERE A SHORTAGE OF MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN AMERICA? Treatment Access in Urban v.s. Rural Counties Over 115 million people in the United States live in designated ... Read More
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A Dream Deferred: Are You Living Vicariously Through Your Child?
No life is free of disappointment. For some people, disappointment is a passing frustration or perhaps a reason to try harder to achieve a different dream. Some parents, however, deal with ... Read More
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A Therapist’s Guide to Ethical Social Media Use
Technology can make life easier in myriad ways. But it can also present challenges, especially for therapists and counselors trying to uphold a nuanced code of ethics and maintain boundaries ... Read More
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Thinking of Working at a Rehab Center? What to Expect
Addiction is among the most common mental health diagnoses, with estimates of 12 month addiction prevalence ranging from 15% to 61%. A 2011 analysis estimates that nearly half of all Americans ... Read More
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Is Your Mood Episode Hypomania or Mania?
Mania and hypomania are states of elevated mood that occur with bipolar. Mania is the more severe of the two states. Mania only occurs in the context of bipolar type I. Hypomania can occur ... Read More