by San Jose Counseling Therapist | Oct 25, 2017 | Anxiety Treatment, Counseling, Depression, 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 | Aug 17, 2017 | Anxiety Treatment, Depression, Eating Disorders |
Research has shown that obesity markedly increases the risk of depression. One study of more than 9,000 adults concluded that depression, and other mood and anxiety disorders, were about 25% more common in the obese people studied than in the non-obese. Several...
by San Jose Counseling Therapist | Jul 1, 2017 | Addiction, Anxiety Treatment, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Herbal Medicine, Natural Remedies, PTSD |
Over the past couples of decades, the U.S. opioid epidemic has been associated with over 300,000 lives. Numerous interventions have been tried and some researchers claim that kratom, an herbal psychoactive drug that is presently unregulated, might help some people...
by San Jose Counseling Therapist | May 5, 2017 | ADHD, Alzheimer’s Disease, Anxiety Treatment, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Dementia, Depression, Eating Disorders, Nutrition, PTSD, Schizophrenia |
The influence of diet in causing and preventing physiological and psychological disorders is well established, as is the importance of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients in maintaining health. Nutritionists go one step further by using diet and nutritional...
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...