Posts tagged as: self-care

4 Essential CBT-Based Skills For Coping With Anxiety

If you are human, you have experienced some anxiety in your life. This is by design;  anxious feelings are our instinctual physical response of warning, to keep us safe from danger. It is an evolutionary development that kept our ancestors from getting too close to predatory animals or other physical dangers.  While occasional anxiety, about […]

Simple Things You Can Do Every Day To Improve Your Mood & Decrease Anxiety

Many people go through life and don’t stop to observe what they are thinking and feeling until problems become so big that they interfere with day-to-day functioning and it is therefore necessary to think about. We see a wide variety of clients with different presenting issues. While no situation is exactly the same, I like to […]

Don’t Psychoanalyze Me! Reducing The Stigma Of Psychotherapy and Mental Health

Without fail, when out at a party or social function, many people have fairly typical responses to learning that I am a psychologist. While a small minority might have an issue that they immediately want to share with me (which does not bother me because I love my work and am happy to help), many […]