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Separation Anxiety Disorder & Social Anxiety
Georgia is a 10 year old only child who lives with her parents. Georgia worries about the wellbeing of her parents “everyday, all the time.” She worries that they may be in a car crash, have a heart attack, or experience an attack of violence. She wants to be close to...
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...
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Seasonal affective disorder is a form of depression also known as SAD, typically occurring in the fall and winter months, and resolving in the spring and summer. A person struggling with SAD may experience loss of motivation, mood shifts, fatigue, increased sleep,...
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