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Articles on Therapy, Mental Health and Well-Being
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- ’Tis the season for holiday stress and anxiety
- “I’m not that guy”: Navigating the new couples conversation
- 10 body-positive affirmations for the new year
- 10 natural remedies for anxiety
- 10 tips for managing travel anxiety
- 10 ways to shop healthfully, not compulsively
- 3 misconceptions about body positivity
- 5 lessons on how to overcome fear
- 5 secrets for braver boundary setting
- 5 signs it’s time to quit or cut back on drinking
- 5 tips for minding your relationship during fertility treatment
- 5 tips for telehealth with kids
- 5 types of therapists and if they’re right for you
- 7 simple steps to a digital detox
- 7 steps to end chronic dieting
- A little horror goes a long way
- A therapist’s guide to emotionally focused individual therapy (EFIT)
- Abuse and domestic violence: How to recognize it and get help
- Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
- Addiction: Types, symptoms, causes, and treatments
- ADHD and anxiety: Signs, similarities, and treatment
- Advocating for your K-12 child with disabilities
- Aging and mental health: Impact, stages, and staying well
- Alcohol use disorder (AUD)
- Anger: Causes, types, health risks, and management
- Animal-assisted therapy (AAT) and emotional support animals
- Antidepressants: How they work and what they treat
- Anxiety and depression: How they’re related and can be treated
- Anxiety attacks: Symptoms, causes, and treatments
- Anxiety in children
- Anxiety: Symptoms, types, diagnosis, and treatment
- Are mocktails really safe for recovering addicts?
- Are New Year’s resolutions worth the effort?
- Are sex addiction and porn addiction real disorders?
- Are video games actually bad for you?
- Are you sober curious?
- Aromantic: Definition, signs, benefits, and challenges
- Art therapy: Benefits and treatment options
- Ask a Therapist: Fears and anxieties
- Ask a Therapist: Parenting hacks
- ASMR: Meaning, examples, benefits, and how to practice
- At Give an Hour, therapists extend their reach to veterans in need
- Attachment theory and the four attachment styles
- Attachment-focused EMDR (AF-EMDR)
- Attachment, regulation, and competency (ARC) framework
- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Autism spectrum disorder (ASD): Causes and interventions
- Avoidant attachment: Signs, causes, and how to heal
- Baby Boomers and mental health
- Best mental health apps for 2025
- Betrayal trauma: What it is and how to heal
- Binge eating: How it starts, why it keeps happening, and how to stop
- Biofeedback therapy: How it works, types, and what it treats
- Body dysmorphia: Signs, symptoms, and treatment
- Body image and mental health
- Borderline personality disorder (BPD): Signs and treatment
- Brain rot: Meaning, what it feels like, and how to overcome it
- Breadcrumbing: Meaning, examples, and impact
- Breaking the cycle of Jewish American generational trauma
- Bullying and mental health
- Burnout and the body
- Burnout: Stages, types, causes, and signs
- Caffeine addiction: What it is and how to break it
- Can couples apps help you reconnect?
- Can therapy help when it’s not your own?
- Can therapy help with sibling relationship problems?
- Can video games help level up therapy for kids?
- Caring for yourself when your job is caring for others
- CBT vs. DBT: Which one is right for you?
- Child life specialists: What they do and how they can help
- Childhood trauma and repressed memories
- Chronic pain and mental health
- Climate change and mental health
- Codependency
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
- Cognitive processing therapy (CPT)
- Common struggles for new therapists in private practice
- Compersion: Definition, examples, and impact
- Complex posttraumatic stress disorder (c-PTSD)
- Compulsive shopping: Symptoms, causes, and treatment
- Connecting with veterans at the holidays
- Conversion therapy: How it harms mental health
- Could your next therapist be a chatbot?
- Couples therapy: Who it’s for, how it works, and how to choose a therapist
- Covert narcissism unmasked: What are we really treating?
- Covert narcissists: Traits and how they act in relationships
- Creating a welcoming space for LGBTQIA+ clients
- Dads get postpartum depression, too
- Dementia: Signs, types, causes, and treatment
- Depression: Causes, types, diagnosis, and treatment
- Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
- Digital technology and mental health
- Disabilities and mental health
- Disordered eating vs. eating disorders
- Disorganized attachment: Signs, causes, and how to heal
- Dissociation: Symptoms, risk factors, and treatment
- Do allergies affect your mental health?
- Do I have adult ADHD?
- Doomscrolling: What it is and how to stop
- Dunning-Kruger effect
- Easing access to therapy for Black women and girls
- Eating disorders in men and boys
- Eating disorders: Types, symptoms, causes, effects, and treatments
- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
- EMDR for anxiety
- EMDR therapy: How it works and what to expect
- Emotional freedom techniques: Learn how to tap
- Emotionally focused therapy (EFT)
- Emotionally unavailable: Meaning, signs, and how to heal
- Emotions, emotional health, and emotional regulation
- Empathy: Definition, types, and examples
- Ethical nonmonogamy (ENM): Meaning, types, and impacts
- Everyone’s a TikTok therapist
- Executive function: What it means and how it works
- Exercise and mental health
- Existential dread: Signs, causes, impacts, and how to cope
- Existential therapy
- Exposure and response prevention (ERP) therapy
- Exposure therapy: How it works, types, and benefits
- Families and mental health
- Family enmeshment: What it is and how to heal
- Family therapy
- Fear: What it is and how to manage it
- Feeling bad about feeling bad about your body
- Financial trauma: How money trouble can affect mental health
- Finding your rainbow
- Food, mood, and a healthy attitude: How to feel good from what you eat
- Friendship and mental health
- Gaslighting
- Gaslighting examples: How to recognize it and respond
- Gen X and mental health
- Gen Z and mental health
- Gender identity and mental health
- Generation Alpha and mental health
- Generational trauma, epigenetics, and mental health
- Gentle parenting: Techniques, pros and cons, and how to start
- Gestalt therapy
- Goal setting: Tips and techniques
- Gray divorce: What to do when your marriage ends later in life
- Grief, bipolar disorder, and a father’s love
- Grief: Stages, symptoms, and support
- Grooming
- Group therapy: Types, benefits, and what to expect
- Guilt: Types, what it feels like, and how to cope
- Happiness: Definition, benefits, types
- Healing from the trauma of gun violence
- Healing your relationship after pregnancy loss
- Helplines
- Hiding in plain sight
- High-functioning anxiety: What it looks like and how to cope
- High-functioning depression: Symptoms, causes, and treatments
- Histrionic personality disorder (HPD): Signs and treatments
- Hoarding disorder
- How addictive is sugar?
- How are teachers managing their mental health?
- How bariatric surgery can affect your mental health
- How community engagement benefits your mental health
- How frontline workers can take care of their mental health
- How hormones affect your mental health
- How I got obsessed with counting calories, and why I finally stopped
- How long does grief last?
- How much screen time is too much?
- How nature therapy benefits mental health
- How patriarchy and toxic masculinity hurt men
- How to be more self-compassionate
- How to break a bad habit for good
- How to calm down during a panic attack
- How to create positive change every day
- How to cut through the clutter of digital hoarding
- How to deal with burnout
- How to feel more grateful
- How to find a therapist
- How to find free or affordable therapy
- How to fix a sexless marriage (if it needs fixing)
- How to get better sleep
- How to grieve the loss of a pet
- How to grow your therapy practice: 4 tips for getting started
- How to help clients while managing your own emotions
- How to maintain therapist-client relationship boundaries in the age of telehealth
- How to manage your mental health after a layoff
- How to overcome anxious attachment style
- How to overcome procrastination
- How to pace and close a therapy session
- How to resist diet culture in the workplace
- How to set up a safe and secure therapy office
- How to spot a love bomber
- How to spot and resist perfectionism
- How to start dating again
- How to stay friends when your friends have kids
- How to stop smoking
- How to talk with your kids about bodies and weight
- How to tell the difference between sadness and depression
- How to use social media as a therapist
- How VR therapy can help you face your fears
- How working from home impacts your mental health
- Hyperfocus: Meaning, examples, and how to manage
- Hypnotherapy: What it is, benefits, success rate, and risks
- Implicit bias: Causes, examples, and how to overcome it
- Income and mental health
- Infidelity: Meaning, signs, causes, impact, and how to heal
- Initiation and activation: 2 exercises to help kids focus
- Insomnia: Symptoms, types, causes, effects, and treatments
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy for addiction
- Internalized homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia
- Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT)
- Introducing our video series, Ask a Therapist
- Is it healthy to take a break from the news?
- Is it seasonal affective disorder or the winter blues?
- Is the three-month rule for real?
- Isolation, loneliness, and mental health
- Just a touch of gratitude
- Ketamine therapy: What it’s used for, how it works, and side effects
- Learning the art of being
- LGBTQIA+ identity and mental health
- Limerence: Meaning, signs, causes, and how to overcome it
- Long-distance relationships and mental health
- Love after lockdown
- Love bombing examples: Learn the signs
- Love languages: Examples, benefits, and limitations
- Loving ourselves into safety
- Machiavellianism: What it is, signs, and how to deal with it
- Main character syndrome (MCS): What it is and how to deal with it
- Managing therapist burnout
- Marriage counseling: Techniques and what to expect
- Medical trauma: Risk factors and treatment options
- Meditation: Types, benefits, and techniques for beginners
- Men and mental health
- Mental health effects of sexual assault and abuse
- Mental health in the workplace
- Millennials and mental health
- Mindfulness and mental health: Techniques and therapies
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT)
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR)
- Mood disorders: Symptoms, causes, and treatment
- Narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)
- Negging: What it is and how to deal with it
- Neurodiversity: What it means and why it matters
- Nonbinary people and mental health
- Nutrition and mental health
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): Symptoms and treatments
- Online therapy: Benefits and challenges
- Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD): Symptoms, types, and treatment
- Orthorexia: Signs, risk factors, and treatment
- Overstimulation: Symptoms, causes, and how to manage it
- Parasocial relationships: How they affect your mental health
- Parentification: Signs, causes, effects, and how to heal
- Passive aggression: What it is and how to stop
- Peer counseling helps students thrive
- Personality disorders
- Personality types and mental health
- Phobias
- Picking apart pain
- Play therapy: Types and techniques
- Podcast roundup: The launch of crisis hotline 988
- Podcast roundup: Transformative moments in Black history
- Positive psychology: What is “the good life”?
- Postpartum depression (PPD), psychosis, and related conditions
- Powerful as a mother: The magic that happens when moms join forces
- Pregnancy, early parenthood, and mental health
- Providing constructive feedback in clinical supervision
- Psychedelic therapy and racial trauma: Offering clients a deeper experience of healing
- Psychedelic therapy: How it works, benefits, dangers
- Psychodynamic therapy
- Psychopharmacology: How medication helps mental health
- Psychosis: Symptoms, risk factors, and treatment
- Put me in, coach! Just don’t stress me out
- Race and healing: Expanding the conversation
- Race, ethnicity, and mental health
- Radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT)
- Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)
- Relationship OCD: Symptoms, causes, and treatment options
- Religion, spirituality, and mental health
- Religious trauma: Signs, symptoms, causes, and treatment
- Retroactive jealousy: Signs, causes, and how to overcome it
- Revenge bedtime procrastination: Why we do it and how to stop
- Schema therapy
- Schizophrenia
- Seasonal affective disorder: Symptoms, causes, and treatment
- Second adolescence: An alternative to the midlife crisis
- Self-care for college students
- Self-care for mental health
- Self-compassion in our most difficult moments
- Self-harm
- Self-regulation techniques for adults and kids
- Setting healthy boundaries in relationships
- Setting healthy boundaries with clients
- Sex and the older couple
- Sex post-COVID
- Sex therapy: Types, common issues, and what to expect
- Sex, intimacy, and mental health
- Shadow work: What it is, examples, and effectiveness
- Shame: Causes, examples, and ways to heal
- Should I break up with my therapist? 5 signs it’s the right time
- Should we all quit social media?
- Should you quit your job for your mental health?
- Signs of autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
- Sleep and mental health
- Social anxiety disorder: Causes, symptoms, and treatment
- Social media and mental health
- Sociopathy: Causes, signs, and treatments
- Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT)
- Somatic therapy
- Stonewalling: Meaning, effects, and how to respond
- Stop overthinking your relationship
- Stress management: How to relieve stress in positive ways
- Stress: Causes, types, effects, disorders, and treatments
- Struggling with relationships as an adult? Your attachment style may be why
- Suicide: Risk factors, warning signs, and prevention
- Taking charge of your emotions: Strategies for keeping it together when kids fall apart
- Taking our anxiety back to school
- Teaching kids about healthy friendships and boundaries
- Teletherapy and the promise of access
- The 6-step IFS process to jumpstart healing
- The COVID-19 pandemic and mental health
- The dark triad and dark tetrad personality traits
- The difference between self-diagnosis and self-advocacy
- The divorce announcement
- The future of autism intervention: Not too medical, not too social, but just right
- The Gottman method for couples therapy
- The grey rock method: Protect yourself from narcissists
- The healing power of storytelling
- The loneliness of raising twins
- The menstrual cycle and mental health
- The power of breath: Teach children to breathe on purpose and calm big emotions
- The power of self-awareness: A whole-person perspective
- The power of self-awareness: Practical steps to enhance it
- The power of self-awareness: The anatomy of the whole self
- The power of self-awareness: The mind (your superpower)
- The psychological effects of dating apps
- The relationship between faith and therapy
- The ripple effect of trauma from gun violence
- The Silent Generation and mental health
- The slow burn of anticipatory grief
- The year of canceled plans
- Therapy’s psychedelic renaissance
- There’s no place called home
- Time blindness: Symptoms, causes, and treatment options
- Tips for new therapists on growing a private practice
- To end violence against teen girls, start with teen boys
- To stay together forever, get a sleep divorce
- Total liberation: A Buddhist approach to healing
- Tourette syndrome and other tic disorders
- Toxic positivity vs. healthy positivity
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS): Uses and risks
- Transgender people and mental health
- Trauma from bullying and cyberbullying
- Trauma: Types, stages, effects, and treatments
- Types of therapy: Find the right approach for you
- Understanding antidepressant selection
- Understanding the five core skills of mindfulness
- Unhealed bodies: Looking at ancestral trauma
- Using EMDR therapy to treat chronic pain
- Veterans and mental health
- Weaponized incompetence: Meaning, signs, and impact
- What does acupuncture do, exactly?
- What does it mean to decolonize therapy?
- What happens after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis
- What happiness isn’t
- What if divorce is the best thing you can do for your kids?
- What is a highly sensitive person (HSP)?
- What is a psychopath? Signs, causes, treatments
- What is attachment-based therapy?
- What is avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)?
- What is bipolar disorder?
- What is digital self-harm, and why are teens doing it?
- What is gender-affirming mental health care?
- What is havening, and is it effective?
- What is imposter syndrome?
- What is LGBTQIA+ imposter syndrome?
- What is life coaching? How it differs from therapy
- What is mental health?
- What is posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
- What is race-based traumatic stress (RBTS)?
- What is self-esteem, and how can I improve mine?
- What is the polyvagal theory?
- What it’s like to start your own private practice
- What to do when your job impacts your mental health
- What type of therapy is right for you?
- What’s a situationship, and are you in one?
- When compassion fatigue hits
- When pregnancy loss takes center stage
- When the world won’t hold us
- When your religion rejects you, what comes next?
- Who’s lucky enough for Lucky Girl syndrome?
- Why consent is important, and how to ask for it
- Why do we dream?
- Why is teen suicide on the rise?
- Why people ghost (and how to get over it)
- Why self-love can be challenging for women
- Why you and your teenager both need a therapist
- Why you should go to couples therapy before moving in together
- Women and mental health
- Wrestling with fear as a Jewish therapist
- Zoom fatigue: How to keep children and teens engaged in online therapy