Showing posts with label empowerment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label empowerment. Show all posts
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Combining Hope With Action For Meaningful Change

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I wrote a prior article about hope entitled  5 Reasons Why Hope is Essential to Your Well-Being . In this article I'm focusing on how th...
Sunday, November 14, 2021

How to Use the Wheel of Emotions

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The Wheel of Emotions was developed by Dr. Robert Plutchik, who was a professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and an adjunct profes...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Empowering Yourself During COVID-19: There Are Things You CAN Control

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During the current COVID-19 crisis, many people are feeling powerless. This is understandable given the suddenness and the unprecedented nat...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

Remembering Your Strengths as a Way to Cope With a Crisis

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In a prior article, Grieving Losses and Healing During a Crisis , I discussed the grief and loss that most people are feeling during this  C...
Monday, January 23, 2017

Empowering Yourself When You Feel Disempowered

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Life presents many challenges that can lead to your feeling discouraged and disempowered.  Often, the key to feeling empowered is to take ac...
Monday, March 9, 2015

Empowering Clients in Therapy - Part 2: Clinical Issues

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In Empowering Clients in Therapy - Part 1 , I began discussing some of the basic ways that psychotherapists can empower clients in therapy. ...
Monday, March 2, 2015

Empowering Clients in Therapy - Part 1

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Many people, who are depressed, anxious or traumatized, avoid coming to therapy because they feel ashamed of their problems, they fear they...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Feeling Empowered to Create a Joyful Holiday

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During the holiday season, many people think about the childhood holidays they had with their families, which were disappointing.  As a adul...
Thursday, December 6, 2012

Self Soothing Techniques to Cope With Stress

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As I've mentioned in prior blog posts, usually when clients begin psychotherapy with me, I like to know what  emotional resources they ...