11|2025
Learn the difference between focus, concentration, and attention to understand how they affect our ability to complete tasks and accomplish goals. Opening Question: – Have you ever tried to write an important email to your boss or professor, only to get distracted by a friend and forget what you were going to write? – Examples: … Read more »
11|2025
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and How Does It Help with Anxiety? Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is widely regarded as one of the most effective and scientifically validated treatments for anxiety disorders. With decades of research supporting its efficacy, CBT has revolutionized mental health treatment by focusing on practical, actionable strategies to help individuals… Read more »
09|2025
As a family therapist, one of the most common phrases I hear from clients is “I’m sorry.” It is often uttered with the intention of diffusing tension, shifting the conversation, or appeasing a partner. However, many of these apologies lack the depth and sincerity required to truly heal wounds and foster emotional connection. In fact,… Read more »
08|2025
As an Executive Director overseeing an Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) designed for individuals with both mental health and substance use disorders, it’s vital to recognize the complexity and interconnectedness of these dual challenges. Individuals often grapple with overlapping struggles, making it difficult for both them and healthcare professionals to determine whether they are dealing with… Read more »
05|2025
Breaking stigmas, unveiling truths, and empowering women to rise through recovery. The Gendered Face of Addiction Addiction may be universal in reach, but its impact is anything but uniform. For women, substance use disorders often carry a different weight—a tangled intersection of biology, trauma, societal pressure, and deep-rooted stigma. Recovery, too, plays out differently, with… Read more »
05|2020
At its best, fear is an instinctive, natural ability to help us survive. At its worst, it’s that nagging voice inside our heads that heralds doom and disaster even before we get started on something. Fear keeps us from taking risks that might enrich our life or holds us back from doing some things we… Read more »
01|2020
Holiday Drinking The holidays are a time of “More”. More parties, more social gatherings, more celebrations. And more holiday drinking. Many of the usual drinking rules are relaxed during the holiday season. Drinking in the daytime for example, and drinking at the workplace where office parties often add alcohol to the mix. More drinking and… Read more »
12|2019
Grief and the Holidays For those experiencing sorrow, whether, through death, separation, divorce, illness, job loss or relocation, the glittering commercialism and unrelenting cheer of the holiday season can be stressful. Facing Thanksgiving Day and Christmas with an empty chair at the table can make unbearable grief so much worse, says Karen Silbert, MD, Associate… Read more »
10|2019
Blocking Happiness We all seek that elusive quality of “happiness.” Here are some things you can place your awareness on and STOP so you can be happier. Impressing. What you have —your possessions, your accomplishments—don’t result in real relationship or lasting happiness. Blaming. Your response to any situation is your choice. Try making it a… Read more »
10|2019
Top 10 Tips for Moving Through Depression The crushing blackness of depression can seem insurmountable when you’re in it. But there are things you can do to help lighten the darkness and even project a feeling of well-being and joy. Stay connected with others. Isolating yourself doesn’t protect loved ones nor help you. Just being… Read more »
