Using Self-Compassion to Quiet Your Inner Critic
Do you find that you’re very hard on yourself? Do you tend to pick yourself apart for minor things? Is it easy to give friends love, respect, and kindness, but hard to offer that same [...]
3 Mental Health Tips for COVID-19 Quarantine
During this COVID-19 pandemic, I feel fortunate that I've been able to continue helping people with psychotherapy via video and phone. For many with existing mental health issues -- like anxiety and depression -- coronavirus [...]
5 Summer Tips for College Student Mental Health
When the school year comes to a close, college students across the nation breathe a huge sigh of relief. A year full of papers, presentations, projects, readings, research, quizzes, and tests are left behind and [...]
Life-Shift Tips: Becoming A Caregiver
Many people come into my office with anxiety, stress, or depression about a big change in their lives. Much of the time the change can be a negative one like the loss of a relationship, [...]
Life-Shift Tips: Overcoming Moving Anxiety
Many people come into my office with anxiety, stress, or depression about a big change in their lives. Often, the change can be a negative one like a relationship loss, a medical diagnosis, or the [...]
Anxiety & Depression: On the Couch & the Examining Table
If you are having emotional difficulties, like anxiety or depression, it can be so incredibly helpful to engage in therapy. Hey, I'm a therapist, and of course, having seen the incredible improvements people make, I [...]
Tips for Managing News-Related Anxiety
Whether it’s politics, natural disasters, or tragic events, it’s easy to experience anxiety from the news at times. It’s important to be informed, aware, and to respond emotionally to disturbing news. When you tune into [...]
The Depression of 2016: Fair and Balanced?
As the year comes to a close, many are happy to see it go. It seems that a lot of people have experienced a whole lot of loss, sorrow, disappointment, and depression – both as [...]
Stress-Busting the Holidays
Do you feel your heart race when you turn the calendar page from November to December? Does your growing gift-shopping list make you break out into a sweat? Maybe the thought of a family holiday [...]
Managing Disappointment
Disappointment happens to all of us. We have high expectations for an outcome or an event – it could be a job offer, a business deal, a relationship, a test grade, a tryout – and [...]