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 many tips online as well as some good book recommendations for books on self help for anxiety, and if you suffer from anxiety it is worth exploring some of these coping strategies.

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.

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 to the dark days of winter. By this time of year the days are appreciably shorter than they were just a month ago.

The easy answer is that you want change, and you want to have powerful support and accountability along the way.

The Clean Bill of Adoptee Rights was voted on and passed in the legislature on Friday. Now it goes to the Governor’s Office for signature. I want to thank Assemblyman David Weprin and Senator Velmanette Montgomery for sponsoring this important piece of legislation, and to the New York Adoptee Rights Coalition for all their advocacy. The main intent of this legislation is to give adoptees the right to receive a certified copy of their original birth certificate when they reach 18, and it also allows descendants of deceased adoptees the right to receive that information as well.

Another opportunity to get the word out, everyone deserves the support they need to move towards healing and I was quoted to this effect in this article in Well + Good.

The second Sunday of May brings all kinds of celebration of mothers and motherhood, and for adoptees this can be glorious or challenging, or both. May rolls around and the card stores fill with aisles and aisles of Mother’s Day sentiment, and it can be hard to find ourselves represented, with all our complicated feelings.

I wanted to share this excellent article on search, reunion and open records which takes a nuanced look at all of these issues. Kudos to staff writer Lindy Washburn for a lovely piece.

I wanted to share this excellent article on search, reunion and open records which takes a nuanced look at all of these issues. Kudos to staff writer Lindy Washburn for a lovely piece.

As we move into the final stretch of January this new year, the rush of podcasts, blogs, articles and videos about goal setting and resolutions and having the best year ever is slowing.

I am passionate about gestalt therapy as a grounding theory for the treatment of adopted persons because gestalt therapy takes a fundamentally relational approach.

With the holiday season upon us, I am looking back at some of what has happened in my practice in 2017 and feeling grateful: