Liz White DClinPsy, CPsychol Our lives are hectic, busy and full of competing demands that can be hard to keep up with. We sometimes live our lives on autopilot, mindlessly going from one task to another, and as a result, we…
Matthew Clemente, Ph.D. and David Goodman, Ph.D. In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the 20th century Czech novelist Milan Kundera unpacks the etymology of the word “compassion.” Languages that derive their understanding of compassion from Latin (com-, “with”; passio, “suffering”) tend to view…
Written by August Brown (LA Times) (Photo credit: Good Morning America interview) (NOTE from Blog Publisher) We covered a news story last year, October 19th 2022, in which Matthew Perry admits to almost dying due to his addiction of opioids. The…
Jeanette Hu AMFT When I ask a new client about why they want to cut down on drinking, more often than not, I get some version of “I should drink less…” They go on to tell me how alcohol is bad for…
Caroline Kamau Ph.D. Watching the Baltimore Watching the Baltimore Ravens play the Tennessee Titans in an NFL game in London recently in temperatures close to freezing, fans in the stadium must have felt cold, but the players must have felt even…
Rubin Khoddam Ph.D. In the battle against addiction, the road to recovery is often a complex and challenging journey. Addiction is a deeply personal experience, and what works for one person may not be effective for another. This is where this…
Rubin Khoddam Ph.D. Group therapy is a cornerstone of substance abuse treatment. Substance abuse treatment is a complex and multifaceted journey, and one of the most effective tools in this process is group therapy. Whether you or a loved one is seeking…
Steven Stosny, Ph.D. Several decades ago, I began asking my clinical clients to describe what makes them valuable, important, and worthy of appreciation. Most conflated value with entitlement, privilege, possessions, money, or popularity, thus revealing a primary target of treatment. The…
Trevor A. Foulk Ph.D. During Halloween time, we’re confronted with a lot of images and experiences meant to terrify us. Some of the things we encounter are objectively terrifying. For example, it’s not hard to understand why a man in…
Beth Kurland Ph.D. If you are struggling deeply with recent world events, you are certainly not alone. I have been alive on this planet for over five decades and somehow these last recent years have felt like some of the…