How you could be as if you were worthless, helpless or in danger one moment and feel the opposite the next? You might be a person who is mildly effected but many people are disabled by these shocking changes. One key to learning to be less tortured by these painful problems is to try to [...]
How might you be keeping yourself from happiness from avoiding painful emotions?
You could be hitting the wall that you can break though.
The greatest problem I see in my private practice is people like you trying to escape from painful emotions. Read on to learn about a couple of examples of people I treated who were stopped [...]
Experience and Chemistry are the best guides I would use for trying out a counselor. You can verify experience by searching for how long a counselor has been licensed and you can partially evaluate how you feel with a counselor who gives a free phone consultation and read articles on his web site. Whoever you [...]
What is the Difference Between Anxiety and Anxiety Disorder?
A disorder is a more serious mental or emotional problem which significantly interferes with major life skills such as work and relationships and can only be diagnosed by a licensed mental health specialist. Simply feeling anxiety (nervousness, fear) is a normal and universal experience that can be [...]
Stressful Situations
Some situations that are common stressors for many people include financial uncertainty, troublesome relationships and health concerns. Herbert Benson, M.D. has researched and published a list of stressors (such as marriage, divorce, deaths in the family), and given them scores, the higher the more likely they are to be troublesome. You can find many references [...]
1.Break down tasks to the barest simplicity and complete very small steps, like work on a task for 5 or 10 minutes to begin.
2. Celebrate some even small successes to challenges and add small increases over time.
Self-Reflection and the Inward Looking Person
“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.”
– Joseph Campbell
We live in a world of extroverts. Our social norms are geared to people who are “out there” – [...]
Have you ever instantly started to feel anxious and insecure and you didn’t even deserve to live or to have any pleasure or security? You think this will never get any better even though you’ve been through these feelings before, maybe many times before. Maybe you were feeling ok until you got a critical message or a [...]
Have you given up hope that you can free yourself of terribly painful anxious feelings? Help is readily available to help you to put an end to your suffering. Do you suffer anxiety that won’t go away, whether in many situations, or only certain ones? Although highly effective treatments are available from experienced therapists you [...]
Do you feel agonizing anxiety or emotional pain that you can sometimes avoid but keeps coming back? How many times have you planned to get some help but backed away from therapy? Do you avoid other situations that might trigger this intense emotion even though the things you want to do might be enriching or [...]
I work to help people make positive changes by providing a safe, supportive and trusting relationship. I help others to learn important self-help skills that can lead to clarity of purpose and self-confidence. Please see hyperlinks below for details about some to the emotional problems in which I specialize.
I am available for your questions by email or by calling (714) 960-2490. I welcome the opportunity to assist you and discuss treatment options.