5 Tips for Reducing Anxiety
For these strategies to work, you must give yourself fully to trying them. Regulating our emotions is a practice just like any other skill, and it can be developed and improved with deliberate practice. Anxiety is signaling to us that we fear something bad will happen. Reducing our anxiety doesn’t [read more]
Learned Helplessness and Depression
There was a series of terribly unethical animal experiments that occurred in the 1960’s. While they are horrifying to read about, they really give wonderful insight into the behavioral phenomenon of “learned helplessness,” which has implications in the development of Depression. You can read a summary of those studies, written [read more]
You Need to Take Responsibility to Take Control
If I asked you to go throughout your day and I told you that you couldn’t use the filler words “um” or “like,” you would either need to be silent to comply or you would have to talk very, very slowly and think really hard. Even still, you’d probably slip [read more]
10 Do’s and Don’ts to Make the Most Out of Therapy
As clients, the way we think about therapy is going to help or hinder us make the most of our experience. It is important that you feel empowered to approach therapy in a way that makes the therapy hour more effective for you. I hope this article can give you [read more]
Nina Tomkiewicz, LCSW (#94268)