Therapists often recognize that some clients will find healing once they “let go.” Letting go means different things for different clients. For some, it may mean letting go of an abusive relationship or an addiction. For others, it may mean letting go of past wounds and scars from childhood trauma. Yet, there is another subtle vice that can grip clients …

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is categorized by excess amounts of uncontrollable worry over everyday activities that negatively interferes with the sufferer’s life, occurring over a period of at least 6 months. GAD affects 3.1% of the adult population in the United States, with 32.3% of those cases being classified as “severe”. Of the 6.8 million adults in the United States …

The concept of intelligence has developed a mystique in recent times because of our obsession with the link between formal education and social status. Many people link IQ with human value in an almost obsessional way. Actually, the IQ test is a survey of human activities and assesses a range of skills in almost the same way attitude scales measure …

Accelerated resolution therapy (ART) is an evidenced-based psychotherapy that helps clients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) finish processing past trauma. It’s built upon the framework of other familiar evidence-based cognitive therapies and uses techniques, such as imaginal exposure, perceptual reframing and other relaxation methods, to help clients positively or neutrally re-frame and re-file past traumatic events.   Re-Modify Trauma During …