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15 Jun: Maintaining Motivation

Motivation is an important piece of making changes. Change is often challenging or sometimes even unpleasant. Motivation can dry up…

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25 May: Willingness to be Awake Even When You’d Rather Be Sleeping

If you have insomnia, you are certainly awake when you’d rather be sleeping. I suspect you might be frequently frustrated…

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11 May: Are You Chronically Busy?

Are you someone who feels a need to make sure you are always busy, even if you don’t have to…

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18 Apr: Do You Struggle with Depersonalization?

Depersonalization is a dissociative disorder. People who have it often feel quite emotionally numb. They can also feel like they…

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06 Apr: Talking About the Trauma Is Not Always Appropriate

It might seem odd initially that I, a talk therapist, wrote a blog post titled, “Talking About the Trauma Is…

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23 Mar: Finding Therapists for Dissociative Identity Disorder

As a therapist who specializes in treating Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), I often hear about how hard it is to…

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09 Feb: A Paradoxical Trick for Dealing with Insomnia

You’ll quickly see why this is called a paradoxical technique but before I share it, I want to say that…

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01 Dec: One Relaxation Technique, Many Benefits

You’ve seen the clickbait titles, “This one weird trick does [something amazing].” I thought about titling this blog post like…

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22 Sep: Talking About Suicide with Someone Contemplating It

September is National Suicide Prevention Month. I want to address the issue of talking about suicide with someone you are…

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08 Sep: New Office Hours

Beginning September 14th, I will have the following office hours: Mondays: Noon to 8 p.m. (last session starts at 7…

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