Today’s culture is far more informal than in other times in history but perhaps we’re missing out on some of the benefits of formal ritual celebrations? An idea
Check out my article on OCD Symptoms for Psychology Today. This article… I thought I’d write a little bit about how Obsessive Compulsive Disorder develops. I hope people
Some of what I do as a therapist is quite sophisticated but there are lots of instances when good therapy is about helping people see patterns and solutions
Helping Children and Teens with Depression or Anxiety Disorders is obviously a huge topic that I can’t cover in a blog post. However one of the things that
One psychological model of self control is that it’s like a “mental muscle”. According to the model, self control – is “a limited resource” that gets depleted and
Therapy for problems like addictions, eating disorders or even anxiety disorders, often utilizes a form of a pros and cons list called a Decisional Balance. A Decisional Balance
Looking for the Schema Therapy textbook? You can get it here – . Or, get the Schema Therapy based self-help book . Understand Yourself Using The Young Schema
Here’s a basic explanation of emotion regulation development that I quite often give to clients. How people learn emotion regulation is that as children, at first, our parents
Here’s another technique to change avoidant emotion and behaviour patterns when logical thinking strategies aren’t enough. I’ll use a similar avoidant coping example to the one I used
Generally, people can’t just think their way out of problems like depression, anxiety or self defeating behaviour patterns. People have emotional and behavioural responses that are stubbornly resistant
