Psychologist Specializing in Cognitive Therapy for Mental Health and Substance Abuse
During the holidays and after the beginning of the new year, therapists often see an uptick in people who are stressed out and feeling depressed. If this sounds like you, then you may also be at higher risk of relapse whether it be due to alcohol, drugs, sex and pornography, eating, spending or gambling. Here…
Psychodrama is a deep action method developed by Jacob Levy Moreno (1889-1974), in which people enact scenes from their lives, dreams or fantasies in an effort to gain new insights and understandings, and practice new and more satisfying behaviors.[i] Psychodrama is an amazingly versatile modality. As a method of healing it has been used in…
One of my favorite psychotherapeutic methods has not even been widely recognized as strictly “psychotherapy” at all. It is called psychodrama, which, conceived and developed by Jacob L. Moreno, MD, employs guided dramatic action to examine problems or issues raised by an individual (psychodrama) or a group (sociodrama). It is considered a hybrid between mind exploration (Greek: psycho = “mind”)…
Medication and psychotherapy have both been demonstrated to help people with an anxiety disorder. But research on the effects of psychotherapy on nerve cells has lagged far behind that on medication-induced changes in the brain. There have been preliminary studies which have demonstrated superior effects (from patient’s reports) from cognitive therapy over medication, in quelling…
To the outside world, you are successful, attractive or popular. You have a good marriage, your kids are doing well, or you get good reviews at work. But you feel like a worthless fraud on the inside. How could your own perception be so disparate from reality? “Most people are struggling with difficult thoughts and…
This is a landmark study – a meta-analysis by Dr. Keith Dobson that reported that cognitive therapy was even more effective than medication treatment or other psychological treatments for treating most depression. Medication treatment, however, when added to cognitive therapy with more severe depression, results in the best outcomes: http://psycnet.apa.org/?fa=main.doiLanding&fuseaction=showUIDAbstract&uid=1989-30221-001