therapy and communication skills

Building Effective Communication Skills

5 critical communication skills that everyone needs to know. One of the primary reasons that couples enter counselling or therapy is because they don’t properly communicate with each other. Strong communication is the cornerstone of any relationship and can have wonderfully positive effects on all parts of your professional and personal life. If you don’t have…

Relationship Counseling NYC Self Esteem

Self-Esteem and You

What does the term self-esteem mean to you? How important is it to develop one’s self-worth and attitude towards themselves? Merging various definitions, self-esteem is defined as ‘how we value ourselves; it is how we perceive our value to the world and how important we think we are to others, it reflects a person’s overall…

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) As a Treatment for Depression

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), or Cognitive emotional behavioral therapy (CEBT) is a form of therapy that was originally developed to treat those with eating disorders. More recently, CBT is being used to help individuals suffering from anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It has also found extensive use in anger management…

Do I Have Adult ADHD? Four Important Signs to Look For

Attention defecit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is something we often associate with children. It’s true, that about 5% of children do have the disorder. However, we don’t often consider that the signs and symptoms of ADHD sometimes get carried over into adulthood. According to the American Psychiatric Association, about half of children who are diagnosed with…

Am I Depressed or Just Grieving?

It is hard to tell depression from grieving. Many people go through periods of sadness in response to stress, misfortune, and various personal afflictions. Depression It’s disheartening when our significant other or life spouse forgets an anniversary. It’s mildly disappointing when we get into an online relationship and discover that the hot guy (or girl)…

The Top Ten Reasons Couples Fight

Marriage is hard. For Baby Boomers (born from 1943 to 1960), it was a case of marry young and adapt. As a recipe for success, it has been an abysmal failure: 52.7 percent of marriages now end in divorce. For Millennials (1977 to 2000), aka the “Me generation”, it’s apparently even harder. Fully 30 percent…

Dealing with Resentment in A Relationship

Resentment is a condition that usually builds over time. At first, it is imperceptible at first, but over time builds up as a layers disappointments and nothing changes. Individuals who are the main givers and rarely the receivers in relationships are likely to become resentful over time. The reason for this is because their basic…

Brighter Vision

Brighter Vision

Brighter Vision is a program designed by early childhood therapists, counselors, and educators helping parents help their children ages 1 to 6, develop a love of learning. Daily games and activities help your child to learn, grow, and think. This My First Learning Adventure book is filled with opportunities for your child to have fun…

Panic Attacks – Beginnings and Endings

Maybe it’s happened to you. Some trigger, some event or even something not understood causes it to happen. Hands sweat, heart beat increases, breathing becomes rapid, head becomes dizzy, stomach may become upset and the world feels like it’s falling apart. A sense of impending doom prevails. You’re having a panic attack although it might…

How To Heal After Abuse

Abuse takes many forms and affects people of all ages throughout the world. Abuse usually affects the most vulnerable in society and leaves victims in a fractured state both emotionally and sometimes physically. Some common forms of abuse are child abuse, sexual abuse, elder abuse and intimate partner abuse. Before healing may begin, the victim,…

Asian-Americans Seeking Therapy

Asians have the same number of mental health issues as any other culture in the world, including Americans. However, many Asians aren’t quick to adopt the ways of Western culture and many of its practices. This includes things like therapy. For Asian-Americans, this can be a struggle. There is not only a sense of pride…

What Is Psychoanalysis?

You may have heard of the term ‘Psychoanalysis’ before, whether it was from a book, a class, or even perhaps a movie or television show. It’s become a part of our vocabularies, but most people don’t know much about what psychoanalysis really is, and what it can do. It is a Freudian method that simply…

When Worry Takes Over Our Lives

When Worry Takes Over Our Lives We live in a society that is more fast-paced and stressful than ever before. As a whole, people are working longer hours, creating busier schedules, and have the constant need to feel ‘connected’ in some way, because staying out of the loop can make us feel lost and alone.…

What Is Parent-Child Interaction Therapy?

Parents and children have unique relationships, no matter what. There is no other relationship or bond that can ever be as close as that of a parent, and their child. Unfortunately, for adults and children alike, sometimes we don’t fully understand how to make the most of those relationships, because we aren’t fully equipped with…

Self Loathing, And How To Combat It

Even if we don’t admit it to others, many of us think negative, or ‘self loathing’ thoughts about ourselves multiple times a day. It’s practically become normal in the society we live in, where standards of beauty, perfection, etc. seem to be higher than ever, and no one can live up to the expectations provided…