Mental Health

One of the most common experiences that leads people to seek therapy is anxiety. Which makes sense. Anxiety is an uncomfortable feeling you’re having, maybe along with worries you can’t shake, so why not look for help from someone whose job it is to understand anxiety and to know what to do about it? I treat a lot of different presentations of anxiety, and one of the first conversations I have with a client on this topic will be: What’s the goal of our work on anxiety? This might sound like an unnecessary question. Isn’t the obvious answer, to get Read More →

“I can’t believe I did that. I’m a screw-up. How can I ever be proud of myself again?” I know how much it can hurt when we look back and realize that we’ve made a mistake — particularly a large one. And a painful truth is: No one (at least so far) ever gets access to a time machine. So we don’t get the chance to go back and fix mistakes in the past. How, then, do we live in a world where we did that ill-advised thing, and that we can’t change that it happened? But here’s the thing: Read More →