24 November 2015
How to Be More Grateful – It Will Improve Your Happiness!
With the mounting number of stressors in our lives it is understandable that we are vulnerable to being goal oriented and committed to working towards new material possessions for...
4 November 2015
How to move on: do you need to let go first? By Mary Lamia, Ph.D.
Maybe you’ve considered pursuing a new relationship. However, how can you move on if you’re still obsessing about your last relationship or distressed over what will never be?...
26 October 2015
SUPPORT WE NEED WHEN FEELING DEPRESSED
Our need for connection and love is just as fundamental as our need for food, water, and shelter,” writes clinical psychologist Lee H. Coleman, Ph.D, in his book Depression: A...
21 October 2015
Willpower and Self-Control
The two strengths that scientists have discovered improve success in life are the constructs of intelligence and self-control. To some extent our natural intelligence is unchangeable,...
6 October 2015
The Second Brain
Recent research has indicated that the gut may be our ‘second brain’ and be strongly linked to psychological functioning and mental health issues such as depression and anxiety....
21 September 2015
Homesickness or AKA Adjustment Disorder
Travelling back home this week it got me thinking about homesickness and adjustment. I currently have quite a few patients from the UK or adolescents in college/university who suffer...
21 September 2015
The wonderful world of psychological Podcasts
I have recently discovered the wonders of the world of psychological Podcasts. I admit that I am slightly behind the times in this discovery but feel that for other technologically...
7 September 2015
Irritability and anger- destructive emotions
Writing my session notes last week one common theme that most of my patients had was a sense of frustration, irritibality and anger they had at the workplace. This issue is probably...
7 September 2015
Walking the middle road in practice
The idea of ‘walking the middle road’ is a core concept in dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), a therapeutic approach developed by Marsha Linehan which involves excellent...
4 September 2015
Techniques for Working with the Mind During the Exam Period
Your mind evaluates and labels things to assign significance to events in your life. This is what minds do. It is a natural and normal process and is often quite helpful....