The Role of Counseling for PTSD Treatment
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that can occur after an individual has experienced or witnessed a ...
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What People Suffering from Anxiety Need to Know About Havening Therapy
Living with anxiety can feel like walking through life with a boulder chained to your ankle; it slows you down, ...
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What You Need to Know About Brainspotting for Trauma Treatment
There is a motto in brainspotting: “where you look affects how you feel”- a popular expression coined to describe the ...
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How Brainspotting Sessions at a Trauma Therapy Center in Los Angeles Cures PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other anxiety disorders play into the lives of many people. According to the National Alliance ...
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Thanksgiving Triggers and Triumphs
Sometimes, the holiday season can bring unexpected stress and anxiety for those who are in recovery from substance or alcohol ...
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How Is Sugar Affecting Your Memory?
In America, sugar addiction is a real problem. Many people can’t go a single day without their sugar fix of ...
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Why the Best Los Angeles Trauma Therapy Centers Don’t Accept Insurance
Nowadays the demand to find the best Los Angeles trauma therapy center has grown. According to the National Alliance of ...
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5 Healthy Fall Vegetables to Boost Your Mood and Brain Function
As the cold weather approaches, many of us experience the desire for hearty, warm foods. Typically, comfort food is not ...
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How Does Brainspotting Therapy Work?
Many people have experienced severe trauma but finding the right treatment method can be challenging for people who are actively ...
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What are the Most Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Brainspotting Therapy?
Brainspotting therapy is a therapy-based solution for treating PTSD and other anxiety disorders. Brainspotting therapy is one of the few ...
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Do You Have Body Dysmorphia?
We all have some insecurities about our appearance. This may include our weight, skin, hair, etc. or there may be ...
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Five of the Most Effective Los Angeles Trauma Therapy Types for Treating Forms of PTSD
According to the National Center for PTSD, six in every 100 people suffer from a form of post- traumatic stress ...
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Understanding The Difference Between Vulnerability and Invulnerability
"What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to ...
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Why Somatic Experiencing is Growing as a Popular Option for Trauma Therapy Treatment in Los Angeles, for Women
PTSD and other forms of trauma can create a devastating and crippling sense of existence for so many people. According ...
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Can Brainspotting Therapy Help People with Childhood PTSD?
When we are children, we look to our guardians to protect us from all the dangers that lurk in the ...
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Do You Have a Drinking Problem? How to Recognize and What to Do
While there is no particular quantity of alcohol or frequency of use that defines an alcohol use disorder, certain features ...
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4 Components of Wellbeing
Health and wellbeing are often divided into seemingly separate spheres. However, with research and developments in the healthcare fields it ...
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4 Ways Brainspotting Therapy Helps People Suffering from PTSD
According to the National Alliance of Mental Illness, more than 19% of all American adults have been diagnosed with a ...
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8 Ways to Reduce Procrastination
Do you tend to put things off until the last minute? Maybe you lack motivation or interest. Maybe you get ...
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How to Cope with Adult Bullying
When we think of the word “Bully” we often associate it with childhood drama. Many, if not most, people have ...
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How To Regulate After Tragedy
On Tuesday May 24th, 2022, the country was shaken by the news of yet another school shooting. This time the ...
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Can Havening Therapists Successfully Treat People with Anxiety?
Havening therapists are highly trained mental healthcare providers who specialize in havening therapy–an approach that relies on “amygdala depotentiation'' that ...
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Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder and Treatment Options
Borderline Personality Disorder is the most commonly recognized personality disorder and is characterized by instabilities in self-image, interpersonal relationships, and ...
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What Makes EMDR Therapy Successful at Treating PTSD?
First, let's talk about what EMDR therapy is. EMDR is short for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy, which is ...
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7 Treatments For Anxiety
Anxiety is a normal human feeling, especially when we experience stressful life events. However, anxiety can become problematic when we ...
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How To Find The Best Los Angeles Trauma Therapy Options Near Me
When looking into different therapy options, it can feel a little daunting at first, especially when you are unsure of ...
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No Surprises Act
Effective January 1, 2022, the No Surprises Act, which Congress passed as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, ...
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5 Signs that Therapy Could be your Ideal Treatment for Anxiety
Anxiety can be overwhelming and debilitating at times when it goes untreated for a short or long period of time. ...
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Can’t Stop Doomscrolling?
What is “doomscrolling”? Have you found yourself scrolling through negative news or commentary such as political issues, climate change, COVID ...
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Does Havening Therapy Actually Work?
By Jamie Stern It can be very confusing to navigate trauma. It’s easy to feel disoriented by triggers and isolated ...
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Obsessive Thinking
Do you have continual obsessive thoughts that make you uncomfortable or seem inappropriate on a regular basis? Why does it ...
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Spiritual Abuse and Religious Abuse Therapy
Spiritual abuse and religious abuse come in a variety of types, but all of them have one thing in common: ...
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Don’t Be Fooled By These 10 “Health” Foods
Most people can agree that making healthy food choices has a positive impact on the health of both your body ...
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Learn About What is Art Therapy?
What do you think of when you hear the term “Art Therapy”? Adult coloring books? Sip and paint parties? Unfortunately, ...
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4 Types of Trauma Therapy Used to Treat Survivor’s Guilt PTSD
Survivor’s guilt is a common symptom of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It is a common reaction to traumatic events and ...
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Bad Mood Food and Depression
Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders in the United States according to the National Institute of ...
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What is the Somatic Experiencing Method and How does it Treat PTSD?
The somatic experiencing method is an approach for treating PTSD that is body-focused as opposed to a solution that only ...
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Codependency: The Battle of the Care Takers
Codependency is a term that the majority of the population doesn't like and one that few people understand. We often ...
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4 Popular Anxiety Therapy Treatment Types that May Help You Improve Your Life
According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in America ...
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Are You Experiencing Depression After 40? Will Therapy for Anxiety Help?
Are you mid-way through your life and experiencing depression for the first time? Have you been mostly happy or able ...
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Is Anger a Normal Trauma Response, and can Anxiety Therapy Help?
When we experience a traumatic event, whether this occurred at the time of our childhood, in the past few years, ...
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What You Need to Know About the 8 Phases of EMDR Counseling
One of the top methods of therapy used for treating several anxiety types, phobias, forms of PTSD, and general depression ...
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3 Signs You Need to Seek Treatment for Survivor’s Guilt PTSD
When some of us have survived a traumatic event in which life-threatening situations were present and others lost their lives, ...
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Three Types of Therapies Used to Offer PTSD Support
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disorder one can be diagnosed with after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event ...
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Wellness Wednesday Tip – Gratitude
There are many benefits to practicing gratitude. Keeping a gratitude journal and writing for around five minutes a day about ...
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Health and Nutrition During the Holidays
The holidays are right around the corner which means increased time with loved ones, the potential increase in feelings of ...
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National Stress Awareness Day (NASD)
National Stress Awareness Day (NASD) is on every first Wednesday in November and was founded by Carole Spiers, a chairperson ...
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Kate Hudson shares how fitness fuels her mental health: ‘If I’m not active, if I’m not moving, I don’t feel good at all’
The Unwind is Yahoo Life’s well-being series in which experts, influencers and celebrities share their approaches to wellness and mental health, from ...
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What is Brainspotting Therapy and How does it Help People Suffering from PTSD?
When most people think of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) they drum up images of war veterans that have experienced horrific ...
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4 Important Things You Should Know About Family Scapegoat PTSD
Scapegoating, in some cases, is a way for families to cover up issues they cannot face. When this happens, an ...
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About Depression
Depression, or major depressive disorder, is a very common mood disorder. It affects how an individual feels, thinks, and acts ...
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UNC-Chapel Hill cancels classes after police investigate reported suicides
Lucille Sherman Sun, October 10, 2021, 8:29 PM UNC-Chapel Hill officials canceled classes Tuesday after police investigated multiple reports of ...
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How Brainspotting Therapy Combats Deep Traumas Associated with Addiction
Brainspotting therapy, also known as BSP, is a speech-based therapy that unveils the unprocessed traumas a client has through fixed ...
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Long Covid is a bigger problem than we thought
The long Covid problem might be bigger than we thought. A large study has revealed that one in three Covid-19 ...
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American Sexual Health Association (ASHA) marks September as Sexual Health Month
American Sexual Health Association (ASHA) marks September as Sexual Health Month. It is important to have a discussion about this ...
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Here’s why planning a trip can help your mental health
With the pandemic far from over, now may not be the right time for leisure travel. But that doesn’t mean ...
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Nike closes offices for a week to give employees a mental health break
By Devon Haskins, KGW News Global apparel and shoe company Nike is putting some of its employees’ mental health ahead ...
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September is National Suicide Prevention Month.
September is National Suicide Prevention Month. This month is about raising awareness for suicide prevention. September 5 – September 11 ...
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International Self-Care Day
International Self-Care Day (ISD) - July 24 International Self-Care Day was established in 2011 to bring awareness to the importance ...
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Everything You Need to Know About Brainspotting Therapy for PTSD Treatment
Treating PTSD, regardless of the type or root case requires a two-way partnership between the therapist and patient, as well ...
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What is Brainspotting? From 911 Survivors to Celebrities, the Trauma Therapy that Treats Anxiety and More
According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), 40 million adults in the US aged 18 and older ...
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What Are Your Core Values?
Have you ever stopped to think about what your core values are? What life experiences have influenced your values and ...
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The Link Between the Environment and Mental Health
How does the environment affect Mental Health? A frequently changing climate and disasters related to this frequent change can cause ...
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Healing the Emotion-Body Connection with Reiki
What is Reiki? Reiki is holistic hands-on or off-energy healing practice that is not attached to any religion or belief system ...
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The Enticing and Exhausting loop of Narcissism
Narcissism is a term that is thrown around a lot. Yet somehow people seem to have difficulty actually identifying what ...
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Women’s Week is your Time to Shine
Dr. Joanne Mednick March 8 starts this year’s Women's Week. There is no better way to celebrate all women than ...
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Women’s History Month
Women's History Month Empowered Women Empower Women Still I Rise Maya Angelou Foundations that Support Women Serenity Trauma Foundation: The ...
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An Interview with Florah Leverett
Florah Leverett Can you Tell us your Story? I was born in South Africa and at the age of 4 ...
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New Year’s Resolutions Can Be a TRAP
3 simple things to help you not get caught in it! By Dr. Joanne Mednick, MFT and Scott Mednick, MA ...
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7 Simple Steps to Help You Take Care of Your Mental Health
During the Holiday Season By Dr. Joanne Mednick This time of year can be a challenge for anyone. For those ...
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What is the Therapy Known as EMDR?
A new powerful type of psychotherapy has come into focus recently. It benefits individuals suffering from many varying types of ...
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The Link Between Trauma and Substance Abuse
Since the 1970’s professional therapists have acknowledged that trauma is often the culprit in the development of substance abuse disorders ...
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The Healing Power of Forgiveness
Sometimes we experience a trauma so horrific that we feel we must acquire justice. We fight the feelings of sadness, depression, ...
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The Trauma of Rape
Did you know that rape is a crime considered to be one of the most emotionally and psychologically damaging to ...
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What is Somatic Therapy
Somatic Therapy is a form of healing that integrates the emotional, spiritual, physical and mental facets of the individual. It ...
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Complex Trauma
Often trauma can be associated with emotional or physical injury or abuse; however, did you know that complex trauma occurs ...
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Trauma – What is Trauma?
Most people are familiar with the word trauma when it has to do with sudden painful serious physical experiences, but ...
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