by Dr Aletta | Oct 12, 2011 | Anxiety, Self-Esteem
Do you ever wonder how your therapist does it? If you are a therapist, do you ever have a day when it takes everything in you not to reach over and slap your patient silly? Or raise a white flag in defeat? Occasionally people ask me, “How do you listen to... 
by Dr Aletta | Apr 18, 2011 | Anxiety, Depression, Self-Esteem
Photo courtesy of jeremy screen name Self Esteem! Once upon a time, long ago but not too far away, I was in the first month of a new executive director job. When I checked the voice mail there was a message from the president of the board of directors. In a solemn... by Dr Aletta | Jun 8, 2010 | Anxiety, Mental Health
If you suspect a thought you have is a cognitive distortion: 1. Recognize and isolate the thought. Absolute words, like ‘always’, ‘never’ or ‘can’t’ are usually clues you’ve got a cognitive distortion going on. So are... 
by Dr Aletta | Nov 19, 2009 | Mental Health, Relationships, Self-Esteem
Great name, right? Project Happily Ever After, a website/blog run by Alisa Bowman, a professional writer, was brought to my attention by a reader of this blog. Alisa's readers love her blog about her marriage and life with her family because it's fresh and... 
by Dr Aletta | Nov 17, 2009 | Mental Health, Self-Esteem
The graduate school I went to, the Derner Institute at Adelphi University, is a professional school that teaches psychoanalytic, psychodynamic psychotherapy. It wasn’t until my first post-doctoral job that I learned about cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and...
