by San Jose Counseling Therapist | Jan 19, 2020 | Anxiety Treatment, Counseling, Psychotherapy
Cynophobia is the fear of dogs. As far as phobias go, it is a relatively common, although the fear of snakes or spiders is seen more often in therapy. The reason I decided to write an article about dog phobia is because many people suffer from it. One of the things I...
by San Jose Counseling Therapist | Dec 28, 2019 | Anxiety Treatment, Counseling, Psychotherapy, PTSD, Stress Management
Researchers have known for a while that Even mild cases of anxiety or depression might take years off a person’s life, new research suggests. Mental health woes, collectively called psychological distress, may lead to premature deaths from major causes such as heart...
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,...
