Previous Publications

People often enter therapy believing that their problems are unique and specific to them—that something is wrong with them and they have little, if any, options. Often, thinking they are alone [...]

As humans, we are all subject to life circumstances that will, over time and through an accumulation of experiences, elicit us to just about every emotion. In many ways, our ability to feel [...]

“I should be over this by now; it’s been so long since it happened!” Ahh, what a line, and a relatively common one at that. I hear it all the time when working with clients, and I have found that [...]

Probably one of the most expected questions to be asked in therapy. You know, the kind of question you know is coming and yet, when asked, you don’t even know where to start—or why you’re talking [...]

Throughout my time as a therapist, I have noticed that when people speak about the term “trauma”, they often do so with a very limited definition of the word—and usually in a manner that [...]

Ask ten people “When’s the last time you’ve felt fear?” and there’s a good chance you’ll receive ten different answers: “the moment before the first big drop on a rollercoaster”, “when I missed a [...]

By definition, gaslighting means to “manipulate (someone) by psychological means into questioning their own sanity.” The term was coined back in 1938 when British playwriter Patrick Hamilton [...]

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, otherwise known as REBT, first emerged in the 1950s and quickly became a dominating form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). As such, REBT has similar goals [...]