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Superthinkers and superfeelers: Do you avoid your emotions? (1 min read)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Anxiety, Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

This comic from the Awkward Yeti seems to capture so much about how superfeelers and superthinkers might interact with difficult feelings, and use technology and social media. Who can relate to going on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Snapchat as soon as something...

Superthinkers: Think you can think your way out of anxiety? (<1 min)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Anxiety

It feels productive to try and sort your anxious thoughts and think your way into making sense of them, but that’s just your brain heaping on more anxiety. Better to open the field of vision, so the anxiety is not a roadblock, and continue to move in line...

Superthinkers: Have you seen this? (<1 min read)

Anxiety

Worry and anxious thoughts can keep you at night with all the terrible possibilities of the world. Learning not to spiral into the anxiety, and practicing sleep hygiene can help! #anxiety...

Curious what exposure therapy would look like? See the stages to exposure

Anxiety, Exposure, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

New clients often are concerned about getting started in treatment, thinking that the second they enter therapy, they’ll be asked to do exposures that they don’t feel ready for. This graphic outlines our general guidelines to anxiety/OCD exposure...

OCD series: Tourette’s and OCD: diagnostic differentiation, treatment, and case example

Anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Touching, tapping, blinking, coughing, humming; all types of behaviors that can be performed involuntarily, compulsively, repetitively, and in ritualized ways. So, if you or your child are performing these behaviors and unsure why, you may have a tic disorder, or you...

Quicksand of Agoraphobia: Part I

Anxiety

We had a wonderful talk with Diane Mengali, author of The Quicksand of Agoraphobia. She was very warm and open in sharing her experience, for which we are very grateful. We have revised the interview into four parts, to be released monthly. Keep reading to get a sense...

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Superthinkers and superfeelers: Do you avoid your emotions? (1 min read)

Superthinkers: Think you can think your way out of anxiety? (<1 min)

Superthinkers: Have you seen this? (<1 min read)

Curious what exposure therapy would look like? See the stages to exposure

OCD series: Tourette’s and OCD: diagnostic differentiation, treatment, and case example

Quicksand of Agoraphobia: Part I

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