Overworked, feeling bad about herself, sleeping poorly, Claire came to therapy wanting help to figure out her problems at work. We began with the ABC’s of stress management.
Therapy for tackling “small t” trauma
Disclaimer: Names and details have been modified for confidentiality. The article below is brought to you with the full consent of the patient. An impressive number of people have contacted me over the past few years in my capacity as a psychologist asking me to help them through a sticky situation. Some have come through the Counseling Center at the …
EMDR Therapy to Overcome a Block, Part 1
Christine is blocked. She writes her own shows and has been on stage but somehow her creativity dried up a few years ago. She wants therapy to overcome this and came into my psychology office a few weeks ago complaining, “I used to be able to write. Now I’m blocked. I always start projects but never finish anything. I have …
He’s having an affair!
(Disclaimer: Names and details have been modified for confidentiality.)
A husband or wife calls up the psychologist ans asks me a now-familiar question in a pained voice: “Can you help us? I just found out my partner’s been having an affair. He (she) is willing to see a therapist. Should we come alone or together? How do you work?” After a call or two, we find a time where usually the couple and I meet in my psychology office.
Dan and Maria thought they probably wanted to stay together but needed immediate counseling to handle the challenge of recently released intense emotions: pain, anger, guilt. They had thought they were happily married.