I love new beginnings whether it’s a new year, a new season, a new chapter, or just a nice and simple refresh and reset… I believe these are amazing opportunities to take stock and plan anew to keep evolving and expanding ourselves and upleveling our life. This applies to all areas of our life, from…
Writing can be a way to release your feelings of anxiety and depression during the COVID-19. It can serve as a way to seek clarity, decrease anxiety, and feel freedom and peace in a time when things may feel out of control at times. The technique brain dumping is a term popularized by David Allen’s…
Besides having to live through a pandemic where their lives have been turned upside down, children and teenagers today are having to live with our government in chaos. Many parents may think that their children and teenagers do not pay attention to the news, but they do. As a child and adolescent psychotherapist, I hear…
Happy New Year! The promise of new beginnings is just beyond alluring, is it not? Whether you are rocking it or are struggling, a new ride is just fun! We’ve had a heck of a 2020, and though there is light at the end of the tunnel 2021 is off to a slow start. I…
Life can be stressful, and we all want to suffer less. There is so much information out there, so where do we start? When I was in the Navy, it was 2002 to 2007, I was a Navy Corpsman, aka “Doc” and worked with the Marines. Basically, that is a Medic/EMT ( we did…
Clinical Hear-Centered Hypnotherapy Many people appear to be skeptical when it comes to hypnotherapy and how it can have a positive impact on the way you think. There are many common myths about hypnotherapy which lead people to question its effectiveness. It has been used for over half a century to treat many dozens of…
Anyone who has a teenager knows that the teenager thinks that they know everything and they need no one’s help. Many parents have had major arguments with their teenagers because they tried to offer the teenager advice about how to handle a situation. I have had many teenagers sit in my office too, saying they…
The term self-esteem is used to describe a person’s overall sense of self-worth or personal value. As human beings, we are meaning makers. Terms like “self-worth”, “self-image” and “self-esteem” are used to describe the way we might make meaningful, the relationship we have with ourselves. I often encounter people who feel that they just don’t measure…
Sometimes its a simple thing, beard clippings on the bathroom counter or not putting a tool back in the right place. Logically these simple things are nothing to get angry over and yet sometimes that is what happens. Other times it is a little more than one of those simple things. It could be misinterpreting…
I have many teenagers who see me for therapy believing that no one loves them and that they are worthless. They tell me their parents don’t love them, their siblings don’t care about them and no one at school cares about them. They feel they are unloveable and no one cares if they live or…