by San Jose Counseling Therapist | Jun 1, 2017 | Addiction, Depression, Relationships
Digital addiction is a behavioral disorder where an individual experiences compulsive use of digital technology, most notably cell phone addiction, internet addiction gaming addiction. It is a term that is often used to describe a person whose interaction with...
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 | Dec 20, 2016 | Depression, Family Therapy, Marriage Counseling, Psychotherapy, Relationship Counseling, Relationships, Therapy
A genogram, sometimes called a family map, is a pictorial display of a patient’s family relationships and medical history. It goes beyond a traditional family tree by allowing the user to visualize hereditary patterns and psychological factors that punctuate...
by San Jose Counseling Therapist | Oct 16, 2016 | Anxiety Treatment, Depression, Marriage Counseling, Premarital Counseling, Relationship Counseling, Relationships
Marriage counseling is a form of therapy that can help all types of couples in all different types of intimate relationships, whether they are heterosexual or homosexual, married or not. Unfortunately, most marriage counselors report that the majority of couples wait...
by San Jose Counseling Therapist | Jul 29, 2016 | Counseling, Motivation, Relationships
The two-factor theory (also known as Herzberg’s motivation-hygiene theory and dual-factor theory) states that there are certain factors in the workplace that cause job satisfaction while a separate set of factors cause dissatisfaction, all of which act...
by San Jose Counseling Therapist | Dec 13, 2015 | Anxiety Treatment, Couples Therapy, Depression, Eating Disorders, Family Therapy, Marriage Counseling, Psychotherapy, Relationships, Therapy
Marriage and family therapy is a type of counseling that uses psychotherapy, marriage counseling and family therapy to diagnose and treat mental and emotional disorders within the context of marriage, couples and family systems. Marriage and family therapists (MFT)...