New Therapy May Improve Symptoms of Anxiety Disorders
Worry and stress are an important part of most people’s everyday lives. These emotional states often alert a person that a task or situation has serious potential implications for their well-being....
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‘Negative Urgency’ Leads to Impulsiveness, Substance Abuse
Negative emotion is a state of mind that typically causes distress and reduces the sense of equilibrium or well-being. People who constantly or repeatedly experience negative emotion have a personality...
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5 Tips to Get Through Tense Holiday Gatherings Without Losing Your Cool
Dreading the get-together with family this holiday season? Do you feel tightness in your chest at the thought of spending more than 10 minutes with Uncle Bob after he’s had his fifth double vodka?...
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4 Musts in Treating Dual Diagnosis
As the adult daughter of a mother with mental illness, it falls to me to keep doctors and sometimes even law enforcement apprised of my mother’s history and tendencies. She has been involuntarily...
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Going to Therapy Is a Sign of Strength
There are a lot of myths about therapy in society. There’s an inherent assumption that people who see counselors or psychologists are “crazy,” or that if you go to a therapist you’re somehow weak; but...
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High School Sweetheart: How Altruism Can Warm Any Heart
This past Valentine’s Day, an Oklahoma high school student showed how quickly the effects of kindness can spread. Dan Williams decided last summer that no girl in his school should feel left out on...
View ArticleBlending Psychodrama and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Treat Addiction
A new twist on cognitive behavioral therapy is gaining traction in the treatment of drug and alcohol addiction. It uses techniques from psychodrama, an experiential role play therapy, layered over the...
View ArticleWhat Is CBT and How Does It Treat Depression?
CBT techniques are among the most popular psychotherapy treatments today. Researchers and mental health professionals have found that CBT techniques are effective at treating a number of mental health...
View ArticleWhat Is the Difference Between Biofeedback Therapy and Neurofeedback Therapy?
Biofeedback therapy is the general term for a range of techniques that rely on information provided by your own body to help you improve your physical or mental well-being. One of the many methods used...
View ArticleHoliday Loss: Grieving Toxic Relationships
In recovery, you must leave behind the lifestyle, and the people, who enabled you to maintain your active addiction. Studies show that peers have a strong influence on drinking and drug use. Intimate...
View ArticleFear of Intimacy and Rejection
The fear of intimacy can ruin relationships. We all crave connection, but due to trauma suffered in childhood, or perhaps as the result of a relationship in adulthood that went terribly wrong, some...
View ArticleSpiritually Integrated Psychotherapy: How It Heals Trauma
By Tiffany Dzioba, PsyD, LMFT, Clinical Program Director, Promises Malibu Vista Addressing spirituality and spiritual issues in psychotherapy can be an integral part of helping clients heal from trauma...
View Article10 Reasons Why Group Therapy Works
By Karen Williams, MS, LAC Intensive Outpatient Program Clinical Manager at Promises Scottsdale Group therapy works because it creates connection and reduces toxic shame through open, honest...
View ArticleA Legacy of Trauma: How Sexual Abuse Can Impact Future Generations
By Meghan Vivo The #MeToo movement has gone viral following sexual harassment and sexual misconduct allegations against a growing list of celebrities. It’s a powerful and needed movement that’s only...
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