by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Dec 17, 2017 | Anxiety Treatment, Depression, Psychotherapy |
After spending years looking for the perfect breed of dog to be a therapy dog, many people are deciding on a McNab Shepherd. The McNab is a herding dog, which can actually make for a very good therapy dog because of their attentiveness and sweet nature. When we think...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Nov 22, 2017 | Anxiety Treatment, Depression, Grief, Psychotherapy |
Grief is one not only one the sadness and lowest points in a person’s life, it can also be the most disabling. In the past few decades, researchers have diligently been examining the difficulty many people have processing grief and have discovered that around 10...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Oct 25, 2017 | Anxiety Treatment, Counseling, Depression, Family Therapy, Grief
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 Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Aug 31, 2017 | 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 Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | 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 Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jul 1, 2017 | Addiction, Anxiety Treatment, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Herbal Medicine, 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...
