Anxiety and Mental Health Anxiety is the feeling of excessive worry or dread. It’s normal to feel some anxiety when experiencing a stressful situation, however, anxiety becomes a disorder when it causes impairment in your daily functioning. Anxiety disorders include generalized anxiety, phobias, social anxiety,...
1. How EMDR Therapy Works EMDR Therapy involves reprocessing of disturbing memories through bilateral stimulation of the brain (or alternating left and right movements). This stimulation helps the brain interpret and understand the memories in a healthier and less upsetting way. Your therapist will ask...
You’re having a normal day when you suddenly feel scared or intensely sad. Your breathing accelerates and you feel on edge. Other times you become tired and everything around you feels foggy. Noises sound far away, like they’re coming from a tunnel. If you’ve experienced...
What is a Narcissistic Family? A narcissistic family describes a family where one or both parents exhibit narcissistic personality traits which significantly impact the family dynamics. In a narcissistic family, the parent(s) are absorbed with their own needs and are dismissive of the needs of...
You’re interested in therapy but have some hesitations. You question if you have a valid reason for starting therapy and wonder if there are people who need it more than you. What would you even say to a therapist when asked why you scheduled an...
Many people question the validity of their childhood experiences. Frequent comments I hear in sessions include: “It wasn’t great but was it really that bad?” “There are people out there who have been through so much worse.” “I’m overreacting and over dramatizing it.” Adult children...