From their visitation in hospital wings to their presence in therapy rooms and their stay at our homes, dogs are a mainstay of our lives, and it’s not without good reason: the…
You Don’t Need to Banish Parts of Yourself
By Lizabeth Roemer, Ph.D., and Josh Bartok ***Spoilers for “Inside Out 2”! If you haven’t seen it and want to be surprised, put this aside until you do.*** Source: Courtesy of Josh…
Anxiety: How to Fight Your Own Brain
Anxiety: How to Fight Your Own Brain
4 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Therapy Sessions
Have you ever sunk into the couch at your therapist’s office, given a report of the week, and scheduled for next week without a sense of knowing where you are going in…
Are You Sacrificing Too Much in Your Relationships?
Source: geralt/pixabay Zoe’s boyfriend, William, wanted Zoe to move with him to Chicago when he started graduate school, and so she did, leaving behind a job she enjoyed and the good friends…
10 Insulting Assumptions That Make Older People Furious
I was walking behind a twenty-something–year–old couple who were forced to reduce their fast pace as they approached an elderly man slowly walking in the same direction. Unable to go around him…
How to Improve Mental Health by Managing Expectations
Source: Fotohunter/Shutterstock Falling short of expectations can lead people to become anxious, depressed, lose motivation, or to develop feelings of decreased self-worth or helplessness. My work with patients demonstrates many examples of…
How to Navigate Challenges as a Woman Entrepreneur
Source: Source: Michael Heise/Unsplash Due to the challenges overwork and burnout, as well as an increased value of work-life harmony,recent years have seen a surge in the number of women starting their…
Workplace Recognition Is Actually Reassurance—and Necessary
Recognition is pretty popular in the world of organizational psychology, with good reason. Were leaders somehow forced to pick only one behavior to drive team performance, recognition would be their best bet,…
Addiction Among Veterans and First Responders
I grew up in a military family and, for many years, worked as an addiction psychiatrist in a United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital. At the addiction treatment center in…