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Psychotherapy for adults seeking help with anxiety, relationship difficulties, longstanding emotional patterns, life transitions, and painful or confusing experiences.
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Psychotherapeutic change involves allowing yourself to fulfill your own basic needs and inclinations, without unnecessarily causing yourself pain or hurting those around you. It typically involves exploration of past dynamics and emotional issues compared to coaching, which is future -oriented and not based on discover of transferential issues (past emotional baggage).
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The most common source of joy is relations with other people, especially in friendship and love. Attachment is an emerging field growing as a critical response to psychology's exclusive focus on pathology and problems in life.
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Though the term "depression" can describe a normal human emotion, it also can refer to more severe problems when symptoms don't seem to pass and last more than two weeks. Depressive illness in children and adolescents also includes a group of symptoms that have been present for at least two weeks.
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I have been trained by the leaders in couples therapy, Harville Hendrix and Dan Brown. I have vast experience in listening to both Couples problems and strengths. You are already the expert on what is not working in your relationship. Perhaps the problems have become…
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Divorce is a critical life experience involving change and crisis, but also opportunity. Healthy communication and insight is the key to new and better relationships and resolving grief and loss. If you are considering divorce, talking with a therapist is a vital tool to gain understanding, make informed choices, and to avoid similar pitfalls in the future.
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Anxiety is often not just a matter of being too anxious. Anxiety is typically experienced as a sudden spell of feeling frightened, anxious, or terrified in a situation where most people would not feel afraid. Anxiety symptoms often mimic the signs of medical illness. When a situation is identified as a threat, an automatic bodily response follows.
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Simply stated, insomnia is trouble with sleep. It's our body's way of telling us something isn't right. Any of these symptoms could mean you are experiencing insomnia: trouble falling asleep; trouble staying asleep; waking up too early; and, experiencing non-restorative sleep (sleeping more than 7 hours on average per night but not feeling refreshed upon waking). If you are feeling fatigued during the daytime, experiencing a loss of focus, or are irritable from a lack of sleep you may benefit from insomnia care.
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Each loss in our lives is unique, as is our ability to contend with the end of the relationship.
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Following a trauma, some people may develop an acute reaction to seeing or experiencing a frightening event.
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Mindfulness is the skill of paying attention to your mind- not so much to the content of your mind, but bringing your full presence of mind to the awareness of that content. In one sense, mindfulness is distraction control.
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Behavioral Medicine is a profound resource for people facing physical symptoms of stress, pain, illness, and disease, and can be used as a compliment to whatever your doctors and the health care system as a whole can do for you, to move you toward greater levels of health and well being.
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