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Removing Privileges as a Parent to a Child with OCD
As a parent to a teen with OCD, are you often asking yourself, "What can I be doing to get my teen to stop doing these compulsions?" Removing privileges is NOT helpful to your teenager's ability to manage their OCD, mental health, or treatment progress. Learn why...
Separation Anxiety Disorder & Social Anxiety
Anxieties - all types of them - don't exist in isolation but co-existing with each other. Think for a moment of Georgia. Georgia is a 10 year old only child who lives with her parents. She worries about the wellbeing of her parents “everyday, all the time.” She...
The Compassionate Self Identity at work by Dr. Yotam Heineberg
A portion of the human experience that many of us enjoy and delight in has to do with experiences of joy, awe, and celebration. Another portion which many of us grapple with has to do with the realities of pain, challenge and suffering. We find ourselves afraid to...
Social Anxiety & OCD
Stephanie is a 16 year old girl struggling with both Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Social Anxiety. In regard to social anxiety, Stephanie worries that people will judge her for the way that she eats, so she skips eating lunch at school or orders simple...
Body Image Concerns
Body image concerns refers to how an individual sees their own body and how attractive they feel themselves to be. Many people have concerns about their body image, these concerns often focus on weight, skin, hair, or the shape or size of a certain body part. However,...
Phobias
There are two different kinds of phobias, specific phobia and social phobia (also known as social anxiety disorder). A specific phobia is an intense fear of something identifiable, like an object, animal, situation, or place. This fear is much different and more...
Emotion Regulation
Emotion regulation problems are characterized by an individual’s experiencing emotions “too much, too quickly, with a slow return to an emotional baseline level, and based only on short-term consequences”. For instance, I sometimes hear about situations that may...
Body Image Concerns
Body image concerns refers to how an individual sees their own body and how attractive they feel themselves to be. Many people have concerns about their body image, these concerns often focus on weight, skin, hair, or the shape or size of a certain body part. However,...
Problematic Eating Behaviors
Disordered eating is used to describe a range of irregular eating behaviors such as frequent dieting, anxiety associated with specific foods or meal skipping, chronic weight fluctuations, rigid rituals and routines surrounding food and exercise, feelings of guilt and...
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