Art Therapy Is Psychotherapy… With A More Meaningful Impact Every so often I get asked What is Art Therapy and sometimes What is the difference between Art Therapy and Psychotherapy. Art Therapy IS a form of Psychotherapy. Art Psychotherapy is different from traditional verbal psychotherapy due to the fact that along with talking about a […]
What Is Healing? Okay, so exactly what is this thing we call healing? Maybe a good idea is to focus in on the difference between the physical body and the mental health body. Can you find one? Obviously almost all of us understand our physical body is tangible. We can see and touch it, it […]
Coping With Anxiety Understanding Anxiety Anxiety Is Worry Worry is about f e a r. Fear is about feeling out of control. Out of control is about feeling fragmented and susceptible to every stimulus possible. So it’s just not reasonable to think (or feel) that anyone can thwart being anxious….right? Well, maybe…. Our brains and […]
How To Find The Right Therapist There are lots of people and written articles that talk about how a person “finds” their mental health therapist. People offer ideas such as interviewing a few, checking their reviews, asking for a recommendation from a friend…even ask your insurance company to provide a list of mental health providers […]
What is Trauma? What Is Actually Happening? Neuroscience has now shown that all human beings suffer from trauma throughout their lifetimes. It does NOT have to be a major event that is commonly understood as Traumatic, like a major loss, injury or exposure to a terrorizing event. Perhaps better described as Micro Trauma, everyone perceives […]
The Opioid Condition THE OPIOID CONDITION…..which is currently referred to as a crisis is the process whereby people are “checking out” of “reality”. Most homo sapiens desire to feel good, all the way up to joy. Our brains are hard wired with opioid and many other chemical receptors and neurotransmitters that stimulate our “feel good […]
Light Removal Of A Splinter So at the demonstration yesterday in support of keeping families together I run into an old time acquaintance. He compared the phenomena of President Trump to removing a splinter. That is you can’t remove a splinter until it rises to the surface where you can see it and successfully remove […]
Mental Health Services Of Light We are in unprecedented times…maybe. Its easy to blame our institutions for the lack of clarity in designing and delivering competent, affordable mental healthcare for all of our citizens. We certainly contribute plenty of resources towards the financing of our systems, and many people have argued if we removed the […]
So Where Do We Go From Here? Well…Where are we? Most people spend an enormous amount of time during their lifetime seeking so “go somewhere different from where they are”. It is interesting to observe that no matter where anyone goes they end up with themselves, in roughly the same place. In clinical practice, helping […]
I Must Be Mentally Ill… And By The Way, So Are You! What’s The Connection Between Genius Creativity And Crazy? January… so we made it through to the next year…Congratulations!!!! No small feat considering the daily forces that threaten our moral and ethical integrity. Recently a friend of my youngest son (19 years of age) […]