Fall is a funny time of the year for me. I know most people think about major overhauls to their life in January or in the spring time, when people start their “Spring cleaning” tasks. For me, fall has always been a time of transition and new beginnings. As the weather starts to feel more…
It’s 6:00 p.m. on a Tuesday and your partner asks you what you want for dinner. This sounds like it should be an easy question—you’ve been solving difficult problems at work all day. Maybe you’re a healthcare professional, and spent a long day triaging patients, conducting differential diagnoses, and creating treatment plans for complicated clients….
How to find the point where anxiety stops helping. It’s 9:30 p.m. You’ve had a long and tiring day, so you decide to go to bed early and get a little bit of extra sleep to refresh yourself. You crawl under the covers, turn off your bedside lamp, close your eyes, and look forward to…
In my clinical work, and my own life, I’ve noticed that saying “no” is one of the most difficult skills to learn for many people. As a woman, I feel both internal and external pressure to maintain harmony in relationships, and as a psychologist, I know that’s not necessarily healthy for me or the millions…
As a “private pay” therapist, I have gotten a lot of questions about how or why someone might choose that route over finding a therapist on their insurance panel. Therapy can be expensive, along with everything else these days. I’ve felt “sticker shock” practically everywhere lately: restaurants, gas stations, grocery stores, and the vet. Insurance…
The insurance system in the United States can be incredibly complicated and difficult to navigate—even for those experienced in working with health insurance. Every year during open enrollment, I would be filled with dread. I knew it was important to look at my benefits options carefully and make good choices, but I simply didn’t understand…