REVIEW: Rooted in Adoption: A Collection of Adoptee Reflections. Veronica Breaux and Shelby Kilgore, 2020. Rooted in Adoption is a new anthology of short pieces by adoptees reflecting on their experience as adoptees. As such, it is a wonderful addition to the growing canon of books, films and ...read more
Adult Adoptees: Why Group?
If you don't know where to start, but you have a feeling that adoption might be something you need to address in your life and you are considering therapy, group therapy can be a powerful option. What are some of the benefits of group? Know yourself better as you explore your reaction to ...read more
Family Relationships: Navigating the Holidays
Today’s blog post will be a short one, to provide a good resource and some hope for sailing through the holidays without too much turmoil, inner or outer. In particular I want to point you to a good, readable and generally applicable blog post from live happy with 7 sane tips for how to get ...read more
The Body Keeps The Score: Lessons from Trauma Treatment
The first chapter of The Body Keeps The Score looks at how van der Kolk came to be interested in the problem of trauma treatment from his work with Vietnam veterans. He discusses an early case that had a big impact on him, and led him to search for answers. He also talks about how little was ...read more
Anxiety Treatment: Gestalt Therapy Results
In the first post in this series I looked at Gestalt Therapy Theory, and how we conceive of anxiety as an interruption of the excitement of creative growth, when the excitement does not have enough support in the organism or environment to emerge freely. In the second post I explored how anxiety is ...read more
Anxiety Treatment: Gestalt Therapy Interventions
What is anxiety? In my previous post, Anxiety Treatment: Gestalt Therapy Theory, I explored what gestalt therapy theory says about anxiety. In this article I am going to concentrate on anxiety treatment from a gestalt therapy perspective. We shall, for instance, consider anxiety, the pervasive ...read more
Anxiety Treatment: Gestalt Therapy Theory
I treat anxiety in its many forms. We have different names for it: social anxiety, generalized anxiety, performance anxiety (also click here for more on my work treating people with performance anxiety), and panic attacks, for example. I’m often asked for tips on how to manage anxiety and there are ...read more
The body keeps the score
The Body Keeps the Score Series: Prologue One of the books my clients refer to most when they come to work on trauma and PTSD with me is The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. I remember reading his article entitled “The Body Keeps ...read more
Seasonal Affective Disorder: Help and Self Help
Help for Seasonal Affective Disorder Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a form of depression that occurs cyclically, usually in winter. Many of my clients who suffer from SAD find that as the fall equinox passes, they begin to have symptoms. SAD sufferers react not just to the cold, but also ...read more
Why Join an Adoption Therapy Group (vs. Adoption Support Group) for Adoptees?
Why Join an Adoption Therapy Group (vs. Adoption Support Group) for Adoptees? The easy answer is that you want change, and you want to have powerful support and accountability along the way. In an adoption support group or adoption therapy group, most people learn that while healing is good ...read more
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