by San Jose Counseling Therapist | Oct 25, 2017 | Counseling, Family Therapy, Therapy
As modern medicine has made huge advances the process of death itself has changed. It has been transformed from an often sudden event into a lengthy process that begins with a terminal diagnosis. The diagnosis along with its subsequent prognosis is many times the...
by San Jose Counseling Therapist | Aug 31, 2017 | Alzheimer’s Disease, Anxiety Treatment, Counseling, Dementia, Depression, Eating Disorders
Depression among caregivers is so common that there is a term for it: caregiver depression. This particular type of depression can take a serious toll on a caregiver and affect the caregiver’s ability to care for a loved one. Although the bulk of research involving...
by San Jose Counseling Therapist | Apr 9, 2017 | Anxiety Treatment, Counseling, Depression, Psychotherapy, Therapy
There’s a huge debate among mental health professional as to whether grief can actually ever be overcome. Those who argue that it cannot claim that the best that we can hope for when processing grief is that it be managed. Either way, there are things that a grieving...
by San Jose Counseling Therapist | Jan 27, 2017 | Counseling, Emotions, Psychological Development, Relationships
Robert Plutchik was a psychologist who developed a psychoevolutionary theory of emotion, considered one of the most influential classification approaches for general emotional responses. Plutchik suggested that there were eight basic emotions; anger, fear, sadness,...
by San Jose Counseling Therapist | Jul 29, 2016 | Counseling, Motivation, Relationships
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is a theory of psychological development developed by Abraham Maslow in a 1943 paper entitled “A Theory of Human Motivation.” Over the span of his career as a psychologist, Maslow expanded on his original idea to include his observations of...
by San Jose Counseling Therapist | Feb 7, 2016 | Counseling, Eating Disorders, Psychotherapy
Counseling psychology is a form of applied psychology that is used by psychologists and psychotherapists to help people improve their lives. In practice, counseling psychology focuses on treating individuals with a wide range of emotional, behavioral, vocational, and...
