Monday, January 26, 2015

Allowing Room for Grief

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Experiencing grief, especially when it involves the loss of someone close to you, can be very painful. For many people, the emotional pai...
Monday, January 19, 2015

How to Stop Pretending to Feel Happy When You Don't

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Many people feel that they have to pretend to feel happy when they don't.  I think this is due, in part, to feelings in our Western soci...
Monday, January 12, 2015

How Unrealistic Expectations to Always "Feel Good" Contribute to Depression

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Depression is one of the most common problems that bring people into therapy.  Despite all the new antidepressant medications, which were to...
Saturday, January 3, 2015

Experiential Therapy, Like EMDR, Helps Achieve Emotional Breakthroughs

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In an earlier article,  Self Blame and the Internal Critic , I began a discussion about how people often experience self blame.  In this art...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Making and Keeping New Year's Resolutions

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As a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist in New York City, this is the time of year when I see new clients coming to therapy because they...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

Psychotherapy Blog: An Inspiring and Uplifting Film: "Nicky's Family"

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I recently watched the movie,  Nicky's Family , for the second time within the last year, and I enjoyed it even more the second time tha...
Friday, December 26, 2014

Asking For What You Need in Therapy

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Many clients who are in therapy have difficulty asking for what they need from their therapists.  This is especially true for clients who ha...